This 17 pound salmon came from the Trees yesterday on a trolled chartreuse Rotary Salmon Killer. Most of the catching has been concentrated between Elephant and Abbott's Lagoon in 50 to 90 feet of water but there's still a few salmon lurking closer to home.

Matthew Johnson of Red Bluff caught this 30 pounder yesterday off McClure's Beach. There's still some squid in the area but they aren't concentrated enough to show up well on the sonar or be interesting for the squid boats. The fish are still eating them, though, and a white or purple haze hootchy probably isn't a bad thing to troll. On the mooching front, here's a submitted report:

We took the Tomales Outlaw out on Monday and got into the lunkers we have been waiting for. Two limits of salmon, all mooched south of the Trees to Elephant in 55-80 feet. 4 fish hooked, 4 fish boated. I don't have a scale but based on experience 2 of the fish are over 30# easy and the other two in the 20-25# class. First bait in the water at 6:20 and the last fish came at 11:30. When all was stowed and rigged for the ride home, I presented my girlfriend with a ring and asked her to marry me, with Bird Rock in the background. She said yes. Nothing to butter a woman up like a salame sandwich and 4 lunker salmon!! We beached in the bay and she helped clean the fish. As we turned the shoreline into a red tide blood and gut extravaganza, I knew I had made the right decision.

Today the moochers are definitely outcatching the trollers on average. I was also told that there wasn't room for another boat at Abbott's Lagoon. I hope they were catching there. There were a few halibut caught on the bar and back by Hog Island but it was a grind to get them.