It's pretty windy out there but a few boats went out and roughed it today, at least for a few hours in the morning. Many of those that toughed it out came back empty but a few guys caught salmon. This one, caught by Mike Laymance of Grass Valley, weighed 20 pounds and was caught right in front of red Buoy "02" while trolling. There were stories of other shallow water "beach" fish but I didn't see them.

     This 15 pound striper was caught on a live shiner drifted through a school of anchovies near Hog Island. There was quite a few boats fishing by Hog today, especially by afternoon when the wind kicked up outside, but not a lot of halibut success. There have been a (very) few white sea bass caught near Hog in the last couple of weeks but it's probably likelier to catch the striped kind. The bay shoreline has had a few sharks, spiny dogfish and leopard, in the last couple weeks, the surf is still giving up some nice surfperch. The full moon this weekend should be the right time for surf stripers but someone may need to tell them that.