You always hear about Hog Island halibut and Ten Mile halibut. How about some Bird Rock halibut? C. J. Weber of Ione caught these two halibut just South of Bird Rock in 30-35 feet of water. The larger weighed in at 31 pounds. Halibut was definitely the fish of the day with one boat returning with 11 (Jake Showaker). Some of the other fishermen did almost as well. Salmon also found their way aboard many of the boats. Not too many limits of salmon, but enough salmon were caught to give a lot of people a taste of religion when the wardens checked them today. Multiple lines and barbed hooks are all well and good when you're halibut fishing, but when you hook a salmon and want to keep it you'd better be barbless and one rod per person. If you want to fish more lines just take more people fishing. My boat is usually SRO.