Paul Gross caught this 14 pound striper on the troll just South of Hog Island last Thursday. The wind didn't keep him off of the water but he said that after fishing he kind of wished he hadn't. We caught three halibut and the striper by noon and slept for most of the rest of the day. Thirty knots of wind can wear you out, even on Tomales Bay. We could only troll downwind, fast. Luckily the fish liked that.

    Looks like there's some salmon out there. Gage and his buddy caught these today, along with 13 silvers. 13. That's a lot of endangered fish. It's a lot of out-of-state endangered fish, even. If you're salmon fishing, watch out. There's more wrong than right out there. White gums bad, people. At any rate, there's a lot salmon to be caught out there in 40-50 fathoms (240 to 300 feet of water). Not a lot of jumbos, yet, but a jumbo amount of fish. The fish are from Point Reyes to mid-10 Mile Beach. For now. They've been moving North and probably won't stop just because we want them to. Look for the fleet.

    The sand crabs are molting so the surf fishing doesn't get much better than right now. It's not great but the perch are there and biting. I heard of a few stripers in the surf too.