Welcome to August. It seems windy here. Not windy enough to keep the hardcore off the water but hard enough that I was actually glad to be working. Until people started coming in with fish.

   These guys just roll in from Tahoe and put fish in the box. Jesse Keilman and crew limited on salmon today between Tomales Point and Bird Rock in 50 feet of water. The story is that they lost a dozen others to wild fish and wilder weather. Big fish weighed 24 and 26 pounds. 

   Dan  Stanfill caught this 26 pounder at Elephant today after a delayed start due to engine issues. It seems like it worked out okay. Not for the fish, for Dan. The fish had a bad day.

  Another day, another Eddy Kim photo. He earned it today, though. "Wind 💨 was blowing today but just wanted to get 1 more bite. 2 today with 26lbs biggest!" He was going to go for halibut but we told him, "You gotta at least look out there. It might be fishable." Now I heard a lot of words to describe the weather out there today and oddly, fishable was not one of them. "Nautical" and "sporty" came up, as did "really sloppy" and "it sucked." Terminology tended toward the negative more for boats with less fish. The range of the ones I heard about was one to six with two and three being the most common numbers. I only heard of a couple of halibut inside the bay from boat fishermen but there was at least one good one lost and one caught from shore today. The lost fish bit a squid but I didn't hear about the successful halibut's bait or lure of choice. 

Also, if you find yourself on the bay in the next couple of days you might keep an eye out for another missing boat. No picture to speak of, but I gathered it was an aluminum about 12 feet long with a 5hp gas engine. Incoming tide swept it from the clam island Saturday morning. That's all I know, I'm afraid. We've got the owner's info; if you see or find it give us a call at (707)-878-2443 or comment here.