Here's yesterday's Kim report:"4 Hali and 3 salmon by noon today. First Triple hook up on the Hali with all landed! " Yes, a man's first three-way is a special moment he'll not soon forget.

    Thumbs sent me this picture from yesterday and he looks even more surprised than me. "I picked that one at the first bouy  on the way in, I mean right next to it and it weighs 24.67 lbs on my registered scale , VK dying minnow with med green flasher, I picked up another one when we first started a 17lbs" There were a lot of salmon taken in the outer bay yesterday. The area in front of Estero Americano had many boats but there were fish caught all over Bodega Bay and beyond. 50 to 120 feet of water from Bodega Head to at least Elephant Rock held some nice salmon. From my limited sample of six salmon caught last evening it looks like the larger fish have been in the anchovies for a while as their meat was light orange colored. Our one barely legal fish had ruby-colored flesh. All of the fish had so many anchovies plugging their bellies that they had no business taking our baits. That probably explains the sluggish bites. There were some limits of halibut caught yesterday too, from the Tomales bar back to Hog Island. Most of those halibut were also eating anchovies.