The halibut were snapping again today, most particularly between Pelican Point and Number 5. These fish came from the Fiver. Eddie Kim took Doug out top show him how large halibut are caught. Doug watched and learned. Eddie had 20 and 27 pounders today. Quite a few boats did well in the area described, although most did not have fish of this caliber. The anchovies were hard to catch for the most part, even though there were quite a few splashing around the surface. They were serious teases today. On my boat, after a failed salmon mission we returned to the bay and started trying for bait at about 10:00. After finally catching three 'chovies I dropped a live bait over the side at 10:30. By 10:35 we had two halibut in the box. By 1:00 PM we had our limits but the bait was the limiting factor. 

So I couldn't catch any salmon out front in 230 feet. Luckily these guys didn't go there. 17 and 7 off of the Head worked well for these men among men. Team Alexander limited out on salmon, as well as several other boats working the same area. Here's the report I got from the fella actually working the launch today "Alexanders limited on salmon. All in afternoon, off the head within the commercial fleet. 30-80' depth. Straight bait. Lots of guys tried salmon, and I kept hearing "lost 1." The head had whales, porpoises, some bait, everywhere else had an odd salmon hit here and there, with few, if any, landings. Bay put out quite a few halibut, plus some striper."

And then, from the files of "you wish", photos from Alaska:"Hello Willy,

   Cliff Whitmore here, aka High Times Fishing. Had to show you these from the Cook Inlet Alaska from last week. First time after the Pacific Butts and was spoiled. I will be looking for their cousins this Saturday out in Tomales. See you early Saturday. Never too much fishing,,,or hunting."Don't be too disappointed, Cliff. Our flattened fishies aren't even close. But, they're here and catchable, so there's hope for them.