Here's a late entry from yesterday:"Evan Peelen caught this 27 inch halibut,South end of the beach Sunday evening.Fish was caught on silver herring pattern SP minnow.No Stripers today,but Evan and Sam Morida landed 2 bass in the 5 to 10 pound range Saturday evening using A Rigs." Very cool, Evan. You made Gage pretty jealous.

     For those of us with tuna on the brain, Vern Sasaki sent a report from Fort Bragg:"We ran the iron man to Ft Bragg on Saturday leaving at 2:30AM.  My friend Ken Morita was the buddy boat on his 23 Striper and we pulled into a very quiet Noyo launch at 5AM.  We had couple of other scouts on Gradies heading west 60 – 70 miles, but we heard they found hot water, bait but no takers.  My engineer friend Nam studied Ripcharts so the plan was to head straight west 40 - 45 miles (40/30) hoping to intercept the fast moving temp break.  Ken decided to drop lines at our numbers (59 degrees) but we kept pushing west looking for the break but it kept getting colder dropping down to 57???, so we decided to go south to catch up with the break.  About 10 minutes, Ken has a double of nice fish.  We are now 4 miles outside and south from him, so we put in and we get a single in 60 degree, circle back to get to the cooler water and then get a double and lose the bigger one at the boat…now two fish low/mid teens.  Nothing else in the morning and the warm water fills in 60 – 61 degrees so we head east back to the canyons and we pick up another fish each, one close to 20. 

Our fish came on yellow/green zukes and flags.  Ken got his on cedars.  Everything came long, nothing short on the raps.  Long day, flat water but a good shakedown run and some nice sashimi."

     Today's report is that two boats went out and caught halibut and salmon in some choppy water.