There's a few salmon out in the deep for anyone willing to take the trip. As of today, the forecast for Saturday looks like a maybe for a trip, but things can change. At least rockfishing is now open, so there's always a fallback plan for dinner if the salmon catching doesn't work out. I haven't heard any halibut reports from Tomales Bay but the water temp by Hog Island is starting to look interesting again, as it hasn't fallen below 56ºF in the last two days. I'd be even more hopeful if there'd been some baitfish passing that way, but if they went in there they did it real quiet. I'd like to see a few pelicans crashing in the water around here, but none yet. The smaller surfperch are still biting out on the beach and there's still a few Dungeness in the bay. Gage says the stripers will start biting in about three weeks, so sharpen your hooks. Here's a successful report from Petaluma Newbie:" On Monday 4/17 my friend, his dog, and I took our boat out on the big blue for the first time. We fished off of Bird Rock (and just south) in anywhere from 50' to 120' thanks to some very friendly advice from a fellow angler, on a nice Trophy fishing boat, who could see we had no idea what we were doing. We got the lines in about 8:30 and fished until around 11:30. We left with 9 fish including a keeper ling at 28". About an hour in I tried "chumming" a mixture of Pringles and Gatorade. It didn't work. We called it when we did so that I didn't "chum" a second time. All in all we thought it was a great day and we owe it all to a friendly fisherman and to your fishing report! Thank you Willy!" If you really want to thank me you can drop off your green lingcod. Those are the best.