The wind made it pretty unpleasant in the ocean yesterday and today, but there were still a few fish biting. A couple of guys limited on salmon yesterday (nice work Jake and Sean) near Bird Rock but many of the fishermen trying the area went home with nothing but bruises from being tossed around. My crew and I found a school of 5 1/2" to 6" anchovies on the bar and filled our bait tank. The anchovies scored us six halibut to 22 pounds, a  15 pound striper and a (maybe legal/maybe not) 28"ish white sea bass (returned to the sea). We made a quick trip out to Bird during a too-short lull in the West wind for one salmon just before noon, went in, put the salmon in the ice chest in my pickup and went back to the halibut. The flatfish came from the bar(1), across the bay from the Boathouse(2 and the striper), Hog Island (2) and Marshall (1 and wsb). We were chasing the warm water and the tide change. 

   This is Zach Liddle the fish counter, who got to count his own fish on Wednesday. Zach caught this 10 pound halibut and a sand sole on the bar. We told you that boat caught fish, Zach.