The halibut bit well again today for most of the fishermen. Eddie Kim sent over his victory picture with a note: "Brother Harry and I with the 2 biggest weighing in at 15lbs each. Saw a lot of bait coming in. Good to see." Live bait definitely was the way to go if you wanted to catch. I didn't hear of nearly as many stripers in the bay today, probably due to the current slowing with weaker tides. I did hear that there were some in the surf. It turns out that if you cast a popper towards a pile of pounding pelicans in the surf you may have a chance of catching a nice striper. Who knew? The pelicans were darkening the skies over the day beach at times today. Relatively good weather forecast for this week so we should see some more silvery fish coming in soon.

The Tomales Outlaw tried for salmon further South out of the Gate. "Hi Willy we fished Muir area yesterday. 600 boats spread out from Muir to Duxbury area. Fish spread out too. More bait than I have ever seen. Huge balls of anchovies everywhere. Maybe too much bait. Stopped at a favorite hole on the way in and stuck this ling. Picked up enough browns and coppers for a heck of a taco party as well. See you soon." Too much bait is a thing. It's funny, you're usually looking for it and can't find it, and then later you're fishing in a thick anchovy soup. It can be hard to get fish to bite when your bait is one in a trillion. Sometimes you do better by fishing bait-adjacent, near but not in the mix, targeting the hungry fish on their way in. Sometimes the crazy crap that never caught before will work just because it's different. And sometimes you just don't catch.