This photo was sent to me yesterday by a mystery fisherman. It appears to say, "the salmon are waiting for you if the wind drops enough." It looks like the halibut are there too. I saw a boat this shade of gelcoat trolling for halibut south of Hog yesterday, but the salmon came from closer to 200 feet of water during the morning wind lull. No specific location was given, but he had his fish in 30 minutes, so how hard could it be? (Hint: Probably still difficult if you aren't already hammering the fish pretty regularly.)

    Those of us that chose to stay in the bay and not risk a whuppin' found some biting halibut by Hog Island. More boats caught than didn't and the halibut were biting pretty good while the water was warmer, closer to the low tide. At the top of the tide the outside water moved in (about 52ºF) and the bite died there. There were schools of anchovies from across the bay from our pier to well past Hog Island towards Marshall. There's probably stripers and white sea bass in those schools, but finding the few dozen biting fish in 500 acres of anchovies may be difficult.

   Some of you, even those of you miles from the ocean, may have heard Gage screaming "STRIIPEER!!!" yesterday morning. It wasn't. It was a decent halibut, and maybe now he can calm down a little and get back to working the gear.

    Good news for all of those little halibut south of Hog. Jake caught the big bully halibut, so all of the teeny ones won't get picked on anymore. Thanks, Jake.