Sooo.... Halibut slowed down. A lot. You can still catch them, but it got a lot harder. Not as hard as catching bait, but pretty hard. Catching bait, now there's a man's game. The Eddie Kim spent 2 and 1/2 hours on Thursday to catch eight baits (Five anchovies and three shiners). Eddie has got the mojo, but that mojo wasn't working on them. 

On the salmon front, the hake fishing out in 300 FOW is spectacular! A wise commercial fisherman once told me that if you get in the hake, use the small ones for bait. The other hake would rather not eat them and the salmon love them. But, they count as groundfish, so this only works legally inside of the set of waypoints designating the 240 foot curve in the Code of Federal Regulations . Outside, in 300 feet , it would be illegal. A hake is about the last thing you would want a ticket for. What if someone found out? How embarrassing Other than a failed deepwater salmon run I haven't heard much. Hopefully the salmon are still biting closer to the Russian River in the 240-300 foot range. 

On the plus side, Gage tells me that the rockfish are biting like piranha off of Tomales Point and Bird. IO cannot personally confirm as I didn't fish there but I did help Gage clean a few of his rockfish. His depth was 80 to180 feet.