On Thursday, as I drifted with one just-legal fish in the box, I received this photo. "They're on the beach" said the text. Huh. I wasn't. No wonder.

    I also received this photo on Thursday.  It would have been nice if this text had included the information that the fish was caught in the outer bay. I like catching salmon in the outer bay. Now everybody else is out there catching my salmon. Salmon like...

    ....these salmon. The Alexander boys (and honorary member Larry Varela) laid into limits day before yesterday. Luke and Logan even caught their first salmon ever and their fish each weighed 20 pounds. When the fish are biting so well that the older Alexanders let the youngest ones catch fish, it's a pretty darn good bite.

    Teo Lally's grandpa, Ed Parsons, tried a few times this week to put Teo on the big fish. Luckily for Teo, Kapulani Chong stopped by and put them over the fish. According to Ed:"Teo got a 28 lber yesterday.  Landed it unassisted right up to the gaff.  He's coming right along for a 10 yr old.  Said he wants to be as good as Gage.  Sounds like we both have our hands full!"

     Sam Gracy of Napa caught this 27 pound salmon yesterday morning.

    These gentlemen used their kayaks to try a variety of spots for halibut but ended up catching both fish in the channel that runs past the pier. You could almost cast there...

   ...and these gentlemen did. Both halibut from the Sand Point, casting into the channel. I won't tell you their secret lures because they asked me not to and because you wouldn't believe it.

    If you heard a bunch of whooping and hollering yesterday evening at about 7:00 PM, that was Gage. He caught his limit of salmon trolling in 50 feet of water in front of Estero de San Antonio in about 90 minutes. Some of the rest of us took much longer to catch much less.

    Jake and Adam are not some of the rest of us. They wrestled these fish out of the weeds in the outer bay today.

     Some people go to the bar to drink. These people go there for halibut (and sometimes stripers). It looks like Tom Carter got his eyes back on the same side of his head and finally caught himself a halibut instead of a striper. He's still got his hand on his wife's fish, though.

    Vance Staplin has been working on this whaler for a few years and he's finally got it in the water to test it. I would say it passes. Ron Johnson may have helped.