Mike Mack sent over a short report from the weekend: "30 anchovies sat no halibut 1 fat silver after release he took off fast. Sun 10 baits no halibut plenty rockfish bit the jig 90 to 110 in front of bird." Mike is doing us all a solid here. If I had been paying attention to the time I would have been warning folks fishing in the bay that the silvers (coho) were due to enter the bay. Luckily for us all, Mike realized what he had hooked and not only did the right thing (let it go), he also did the right thing (warned the rest of us). I'm sure he would have let it go anyhow, since he was halibut fishing and likely didn't have the correct (salmon, therefore barbless circle) hook tied on. Mike also notes that the rockfish were friendly while the halibut were not. There were a few halibut caught over the weekend and this week but not a whole bunch. The anchovies are starting to move out of the bay which could indicate the end is near for good halibut fishing. Soon you'll either have to be good or lucky, which leaves me out. The forecast for the end of the week through Saturday is kind of indicative that the weather may be changing as well, with 20 to 30 knots of wind and 9 to 12 foot seas on the agenda. It's supposed to smooth out after, for a day or two, but it appears that the season is winding down. There will still be a lot of good days and maybe even another tuna run or two if the weather allows, but the days are growing shorter and Dungeness season will upon us soon. On that note, no testing yet from CDPH, but fingers crossed for clean crab.