Rodney Johnson sent me this picture this afternoon. His text, "Another wonderful day  At Lawsons Landing thank you. Rodney.", while nice, didn't say where the fish or crab came from.. My guess is Elephant Reef for the fish and either the Keyholes (Kehoe) or the Outer Bay for the crab (I'm leaning strongly towards the latter). Either way, team Johnson clobbered them. They may still be cleaning critters.

     Chris P Fish sent over this picture with a Tomales Bay halibut report: "Hi Willy,

It was a slow day, hardly anyone fishing in the bay.  I started at Inverness and worked my way to Marshall, water was 61-62 back there. Tried 4-5 hours drifting 4 live smelt. Moved up to Hog Island right when the tide started to change around 1230. Caught a 24.5" on the least lively smelt I had left in 18' of water. Fished there one hour then headed in. Water was just above 60 at the bottom of that low tide at Hog. Bait was very scarce.  I think once bait enters the bay it will be game on.

Chris" Nice fish, Chris. I'm sure it's not as big as you'd like (are they, ever?) but considering how many halibut are being caught in the bay right now it's a damn good fish. The water temps are encouraging for sure. It sounds like the anchovies have been hibernating like tiny winter bears offshore in 300+ feet of water, just waiting for conditions to get favorable again. It seems like the water needs to warm up a bit to lure them in closer, then cool off to send a batch of them into the balmy waters of the bay. This stretch of warm weather might have done the trick and woke them up. Soon after I know, you'll know.

    This is the obligatory Gage's hand picture. He'd like to report that, yes, there are a few surfperch out on the beach. It wasn't great but he caught a half-dozen and had a bunch of bites that didn't stick. All bites/fish from the North end of the beach to about the midpoint of the beach.