These guys are smiling because they were back by 11:00 with their salmon limits to 27 pounds. Other boats nearby did not do as well. Their secret? Aside from "good clean living," they were trolling anchovies in chartreuse and chrome Anchovy Specials. How come when I do that I can't catch? Must be that good clean living. There were lots of boats working the Trees to Keyholes corridor and a few of them did OK. Mooching seemed like it had a little better return than trolling and involved a little less dodging of other boats. There was a bit of action up by Bodega Head later in the day. The halibut bite was slow but not dead. A couple of boats watched a seal get eaten by a large shark off of McClure's Beach, close enough at one point that one boat got blood on it. Good news, divers; at least one shark is full. The large shark was later identified as a mako.

The Coopersmiths came up the bay from Inverness to get their main engine worked on and figured that they might as well troll since they weren't going very fast anyhow. It worked. This twelve pound halibut bit a herring under a hootchy by Hog Island.