This halibut was caught across the bay from the boathouse on a bucktail jig. Current theory is that it just came into the bay as it still has spots on the brown side. There were some other halibut caught on Ten Mile and the bar. The salmon bite was spotty as usual with a few fish coming from Bird Rock to the Keyholes and the largest concentration of boats at McClure's. I saw several caught but our only salmon bite there was lost on a commercial boat's wire. We ran down to the Towers and caught three halibut and a 30 pound salmon on slow-trolled live bait. The halibut liked the squid and the salmon ate a mackerel. Really.
Gage did not catch a salmon yesterday but he did make a new friend. This ocean sunfish or mola came right up to the boat for a scratch, probably to knock off some of the critters living on it. It was about eight feet long.
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Willy that is incredible! Love it! Are they friendly because they are generally so deep in the ocean floor most of the time (that is what I heard??) and away from humans. I have always pictured a "perch" sunning when you see them off in the distance. Up close they are almost prehistoric looking fish.
I don't know how they spend their their time, but currently there are hundreds of them at the surface between Point Reyes and Bodega Head. It's not uncommon to see them around here in the summer but the last two years there have been a lot of them and many of them are large.
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