Brandon Hodson submitted this report this evening:"Hi Willy long time listener first time caller.  Thanks for the only website worth a damn to those of us that fish here, and for all you do at the landing.

We trolled off bird and the trees in 200’ and finally got one with 145’ on the wire.  Melissa’s first fish so she’s stoked.  Sounded like mostly crickets and a few shakers out there today.
Cheers,

Brandon" The crickets are all I heard about earlier in the day. One secondhand report of three fish caught in 140' in front of Bird, but by the time I heard it it could have been three fish 140' OTW. I'm not sure that my downrigger has 140' of wire. Looks like I might get the chance to find out this weekend. The weather looks good even if the catching is slow. A few more days of calm water should allow the bait and salmon to concentrate and I imagine that this weekend there will be more than a few boats out scouting. Chances are, somebody will find them. 

    We had a little impromptu soiree for Gage this evening, as it is his 18th birthday and graduation from high school. Just a few friends at separate picnic tables at the waterfront. It was funny to notice that when the birds started diving across the bay on a school of something most everybody ended standing up, staring at the tiny white dots going up and down saying "Anchovies?" It's good to surround yourself with like-minded people.  We may not agree on a lot of politics but we can agree on fishing. And yes, the baitfish were moving into the bay on the incoming tide. Whether they were anchovies or not I don't know but the birds were terns (I think; tiny white dots) which would seem to indicate something anchovy-sized.