First is another picture sent in by Nick Nichols of his boat's other fish from Sunday. For the most part this week has been a slow one. Spotty reports of salmon around the Keyholes and down to Abbots, and a couple near Bird too. None of these bites seem to stick for long, though. I suspect it's mostly a game of being in the right place at the right time. The leatherback pictured was working today to keep the waters off Ten Mile clear of the jellies, at least. The halibut report has been fairly slow as well, though one woman who's fished the pier for halibut three days now finally got one. I think that must be the third or fourth so far. That I know of.

   Nice picture, huh? Don't get too excited just yet. I ran out a whole 62 miles (one way) today to chase albacore rumors. We fished the area around 38°31 by 124°15. There were a few other boats from Bodega. It wasn't red hot, but it sounded like people were getting fair numbers. I have no cause to complain, with a total of 20, and at one point we filled all seven rods up. Not much size to ours, or anyone else's for the most part, but I heard one guy mention a 20 pounder. One of our larger ones weighed in at a whopping 8.5 lbs. While most were concentrated further out, it seems worth mentioning that the clear 58-9°F water we caught in stretched in another 10 miles, to the edge of the 124 line. So maybe you'd only have to run out 50 miles. Sounds a lot better, right? Right?