Watch out for this guy. Gage sent me this picture: "Gabriel of Sacramento 28 inch halibut from the beach on a Gulp! Sandworm" That's right. He caught this halibut on perch gear from shore. A lot of guys couldn't catch one with the "right" gear from boats in the "right" places today. Gabriel doesn't need conditions to be "right". He just needs water. Probably.

  

 I also received this report from Rokefin: "Willy, not stellar but not too bad today. Fishing seemed slow for the most part but we did pick up 2 nice lings Pt Reyes and Herman got this nice salmon on our troll home in the last 30 mins of our day. Saw one other salmon netted but nobody talking on the radio about catching....." It was a tough day out there for most fishermen. It looks like you guys did better than the average that I heard of. There was some radio talk of a bite off of Fort Ross but I didn't see any fish from there. Hopefully it is indicative of fish moving south. I heard of a very few other fish hooked and even fewer landed. There's a huge mass of bait at Elephant/Keyholes but no salmon eating it (yet). Halibut in the bay wasn't much better. There were a few caught but halibut were even harder to catch than the bait today.