Nick Nichols sent over some pictures to accompany his victorious score yesterday. It looks like Nick made an order from "BigfishMike" on Coastside Fishing Club to get the killer spoon. I haven't ordered one for myself, yet, but my resistance is flagging. Bait caught two of the fish, so as long as tray bait is plentiful I'll be fine.....

  Here's an opening day report: "Hey Willy,

        Here is a beauty we picked up in 70 feet of water between the trees and mcclure's about 50 on the wire. We started trolling in 90+ just before bird rock and caught so many Jellies we had to start throwing them back so I figured either we go deeper or shallower to try and give our cranking arms a rest. Like you said the hot bite was not in the shallows but it was just hot enough for the first mate, not the captain of course. He weighed 21.5 lbs after being troll dressed, the fish I mean. One can only hope there's another one out there willing to brake my back up net. Although I probably won't attempt the net if another fatty comes my way the gaff is much cleaner and leaves the fish for a better picture with all it's scales.

Thanks,

-Dave new owner of the Sunrunner"   Any fish that breaks the net is a damn good fish. Successful gaffing is also very cathartic. You can work out a lot of anxiety in just a moment. If you have further net breaking issues, though, try to get a net with a deep bag so that you lift it "handle to the sky" into the boat. "Snow shoveling" big fish will break nets. I'm not saying you did, but we had someone in the shop today buying a landing net to replace a busted hoop from large-fish-itis, so it's on my mind. Nice fish, by the way.

   Kyle Maclachlan emailed this report: "Hey willy this report is for monday. We fished out of bodega and managed to find some biters for the four of us. The wind chop was 4-7’ though out the morning, but once we got located near a couple anchovie schools not far from home the bite was on! We have been waiting for a day of fishing like this for years, even with the wind chop the crew had smiles ear to ear. I sure hope some of those bait schools head into tomales bay!" That's not fishing, that's harvesting. Pretty damn nice harvest. I showed this photo to Gage and he wanted to lay down by your fish for a photo. Very nice work. 

   One other thing. I don't want to blame Eddie Kim, but too many Pacific Halibut have been caught this year and the season will end at 11:59 PM on June 30. I feel like my chances for accidentally catching a Pacific will go up by ten times on Thursday.