Thomas Larsson of Orangevale caught this 21 pound salmon on Wednesday. He caught it mooching at the north end of McClure's Beach.

These guys limited on salmon on Wednesday. The trolled up the majority of them a little south of Elephant in 80 feet of water. Rob Sereni had the hot rod with a green Krippled Anchovy sticking most of the fish.

Tony Barnes of Sacramento caught this 24 pound lingcod while mooching for salmon with Gavin Ogilvie. It's not the salmon they were looking for, but it's a heck of a consolation prize. The salmon bite has been good at Abbott's Lagoon but if you go be prepared for a lot of close company. It's mostly mooching but there's trollers, both sport and commercial, tacking right through the middle. There's fish from the Keyholes north to the Trees but the bite is spottier. Same rules: The fish are a couple of turns off of the bottom, 50 to 90 feet of water. There's a few lings and halibut in the same area.

Ron Stahl caught this 26 pounder just off the bottom in 70 feet of water at the north end of McClure's Beach. A day too early for the derby, Ron.  Scott from Auburn came back for another visit. I told him the shiners were biting on the pier, so of course, they weren't. Scott found a school of anchovies and used those for live bait for a pair of halibut by Hog Island.