I haven't seen any salmon come in here this week (nor any salmon fishermen until today) but there have been a few halibut caught in the bay. I say the the bay because over the last few days there have been fish caught from one end to the other. The best numbers were still around Hog, of course. Again, fish get caught where people are fishing, so seeing many fish come from Hog Island isn't much of a surprise when 98% of Tomales Bay halibut fishermen are congregated there. Somebody should sell beer. It needs to be repeated, there are fish in other places, and with a small but growing number of pelicans appearing in the area it would appear that baitfish and halibut should be arriving in the bay soon if they aren't already here. Those fish enter across the bar then work their way through the channels into the bay. The fellow that caught a chunky 8 pound halibut from the shore in front of the Lawson's Landing store yesterday probably picked up a freshly entered one (it bit a white bucktail). I'm just saying, you don't need to school up in one spot. 

     The rockfishing was pretty good in some of the deeper water this week. In the shallower water the bright night sky provides enough light for the fish to eat all night and not want your offerings the next day. Fishing deeper generally works better near the full moon. Of course, except for when it doesn't.

      I did give the surf stripers a try a few nights back. I don't recall catching that much seaweed before. Now, I don't want to brag, but if I was a vegetarian I would have had food for weeks. Not good food, but a lot of it. I may try again when the memory fades a bit.