Here's a report from Swampy from yesterday:"Evening Willy,

Have had a blast the last few days down here.  Today was slow on the halibut front with two 7 pounders boated. Could you check with Gage to see if he can identify this 20 pound fish caught north of Hog and south of Eddie?" Yes, Gage says that's his fish. You described exactly where he left it. Just bring it back on your next trip and we will release it directly into a frying pan.

    Eddie Kim and Doug Bagley put the hurt on the halibut on Tuesday and bruised them again on Wednesday. Thursday Doug went back to work and the halibut decided to just chill. The chill may have been caused by the cold water entering the bay on the incoming tide. That cold water chased in some more anchovies but if halibut were following them in nobody I spoke with could tell. Gage and I launched at 9:00 and quit at noon with one fish caught near Marker 5. We made two long drifts and the only reason they were long was because I got to practice my backtrolling. With the wind and current  going the same way we were drifting at 2.5+  knots. I generally troll slower. Putting both motors in reverse slowed us to 0.5 to 1.0 knots. The nice part is that you could pick where you wanted to fish and drive over it, like trolling. The bad part is that I had to drive the whole time while Gage worked the gear (which he had to do a lot. We found all the seaweed, I think. There couldn't be any more). Just saying, another tool in the arsenal. At the time we left Mr. Kim had a halibut but his drift through the channel (even with his parachute out) was crazy fast. Let's just sum it up by saying it was tough out there. It looked to be even tougher on the ocean as the wind didn't wait very long today to go to town. The forecast is worse tomorrow and then we get another reprieve.