Let's start off with a report from yesterday. "Hi Willy, Here is a pic for ya...  Glenn Hakola of Windsor caught this 25lber(?)yesterday 140ft off the point.  First bait ball we saw heading south toward the fleet.  Hoochie 90 ft." Today the hootchies didn't work as well (for almost everyone) but it is good to see that they do work, usually. Everybody today reported jellyfish problems of varying difficulty. A lot of guys didn't catch anything but jellies (but they caught a lot of jellies). A few boats found a way to make them bite, nonetheless. If you had a hard time today, look away now. These pictures will be painful.  

    When you don't have room to store all of your fish, you've had a good day. These guys on Double Trouble were tripping over their fish when landing the last salmon of the day because the previous fish wouldn't all fit in the fishbox. First world problems. They would not comment on where they were but it wasn't too far away from here by the timeline I was told. "We found a fishable hole in the jellyfish and stuck with it." Straight bait was the weapon and they were back just after noon.

     I heard a few complaints about this crew. "We were fishing right by them and watched them keep hooking up and landing fish and we never had a bite there." Fishing next to Kapulani is like fishing behind Jake Showaker. There's no fish left there for you. I've tried it. It is brutal. I've had more fun at a funeral. Last year, in a spot I called him to fish, he shut down my bite until he was done and left. Then we finished our limits in short order. It was kind of spooky. I'd dislike him except for the fact that he's such a damned good person. He, Mike Gonzales, and Rudy Ai limited on salmon  to 27 pounds in view of many boats not doing nearly as well. Kapu was in the Bird/Trees area. Your results there may (probably will?) vary. 

     On the halibut front, I didn't speak to anyone with halibut the last two days but Gage tells me that there's been a few caught on this side of Hog Island. He said it was pretty good fishing but I think he's an optimist. Nobody has hung a halibut on the scale since June, so it can't be too fantastic.

     And Unknown commenter with too many expletives in your comment about the squid boats to be published, I sympathize. Luckily the squid aren't forming up in groups thick enough to show on a fishfinder or be interesting to the squidders. They were looking but if they set it wasn't on the ones I was fishing on. At least, not in the daylight they didn't.