On Wednesday, "We got our salmon with the commies at 200’ off the head then drifted a dead herring at 30’ on the way to the barn. One drop and THIS (43”/30#).

– Harvest Time." Catching a 30 pound California Halibut is like catching a 40 pound salmon; there aren't that many of them. I'm going to have to try the dead herring thing.

    Somehow Gage grabs my rod and lands a 17 pound salmon yesterday. How does this happen? Probably because he's faster than me. We ended up with two salmon in the outer bay and six halibut across the bay from the Boathouse. The halibut really liked the live anchovies we jigged up.

     Today Larry and Guy Laackmann found a few more fish that like anchovies by Hog Island. There will probably be quite a few boats by Hog this weekend as the weather forecast for the ocean is pretty questionable. Yesterday the bait that had been everywhere in the outer bay over the weekend was nowhere to be found. From the radio it sounded like there were a few fish all over but no real concentration. Probably a couple of days of nicer water conditions will get the bait schools forming back up and the salmon circling them. Until then there's a few more days to catch a Dungeness and eat it, as the sport season ends on Sunday night.