The salmon fishing has been on the slow side but a few people have been been catching. One boat this morning came back in so soon I thought that he had forgotten his bait. It turns out that he limited on salmon. There was another boat that had never salmon fished before that caught two. For those of you that didn't catch (cough Eddie Kim cough) consider these stories aspirational. It can happen to you. It just didn't happen to you today....

 

 

 This halibut, caught on the north side of Hog, weighed 15 pounds. It bit a (gasp!) live anchovy. There were a few others caught as well. It would appear that Hog Island has a few fish around it again. There may even be a few closer to the mouth of the bay. These large fish that have been getting caught probably weren't all sitting in the bay for the last few years waiting for the day they could eat someone's hook. Probably. But it seems likely that some of these fish just arrived.

Brian Tillinghast sent in this report from last Saturday :"Hey Folks, expected bait and fish would be scattered after windy week, but thanks to Willy's Thursday report and Gage's reinforcement of such on our tractor launching through the clamming armada Saturday morning, was able to mooch up one nice fish pushing up to the Trees against that south wind in my little Montauk in about 70-80ft of water and then drifting with wind and sea anchor back up to Tomales Point, trying to stay bit inside of fleet. Missed one other good bite " I'm just glad that I'm not the only missing good bites. I miss a bunch of the bad bites, too.