First salmon of the season at Lawson's Landing today (to be fair, not a lot of competition). This 15 pounder bit a white hootchy behind an 11" Hot Spot flasher at 20 pulls (30 feet down on the fishfinder). We were in a small fleet of 20 boats in ~160 feet of water in front of Bird Rock. We had one other bite during our four hours of trolling and Gage's fish wasn't quite big enough. The water was cold but had a touch of color (brownish-green) and there was scattered bait. We watched a small thresher shark attempt several times and finally succeed at bashing an injured anchovy  on the surface with its tail. If Gage can get the video to upload I'll post it. It was pretty cool to watch. Two bites in four hours is far from the bite we all want, but 160 feet of water in front of Bird is close enough to be real interesting. Probably not interesting enough to want to get a ticket and go court (you'll probably win, eventually, but how much is your time worth?) but worth watching. Good times are coming. Or at least, pretty good masked times are. 

   There's been a few other halibut caught in the bay. None of the ones I have heard about have been large or even medium, but for those of you that are fans of veal (with no boxes) or you're not allowed to live near schools, the fishing near Marconi is pretty good.