Pretty slow fishing yesterday with the wind keeping most of the boats in the bay and the few that went out catching a couple salmon here and there among the whitecaps. "Here and there" included North of Bodega Head and from Tomales Point to the Trees. There were also salmon caught on the Tomales Bay bar and South of Hog Island inside the bay. These were single fish, caught in the schools of anchovies, but it gives one hope. Hog Island was very slow for halibut but further back near Marshall a couple of boats had some luck by trolling gear that looked nothing like a real fish. I guess that one way to set your offering apart from the million anchovies is to have something that is the opposite of "match the hatch." 

     I lost my fishing buddy yesterday. Tom McHale was my friend and father-in-law. He wasn't able to get out fishing in the last year or so but was fishing vicariously through Gage, Cameron and all of your fishing stories that I shared with him. This is him with his 30 pound white sea bass in 2015. I hope he's fishing with Merle again.