Here's the photo of the halibut highliners from yesterday. I thought that Dave and Don had caught four but it was only three halibut. So today they went back out and caught one more to keep me from being a liar. 

   Thanks, Don. It's even better that the fish you caught was 17 pounds. So, as I was saying, over the last two days, Don and Dave caught four halibut on live bait.

    Big fish of the day was this 31 pound salmon. I'm afraid that I didn't catch the fisherman's name that landed it, but his Captain and netter was Steve Cato. Steve recently purchased his boat and was immediately thrust deep into the love/hate relationship that we call boat ownership. His motor blew, and replacing it has been a six-week-plus ordeal of money, failed promises and anxious waiting for anew motor. Today was step one in making up for it. Fifty or sixty more fish like this and Steve may actually like the boat again. Maybe. Steve and crew lost another seven salmon today at the Trees. Peter Kim limited there today and lost more fish than he caught. Many guys caught nothing there and a few others had one. The bite is flakier than anything shipping from Battle Creek, Michigan (home of Kellogg's).

   Richard Baratta sent over this report from Saturday: "Hey Willy
So when the captain loses the only salmon of the day in a sea of boats what else is there to do but take the crew to the rocks and sic ‘Em on rock cod . Nice to see the place so busy again.
Richard" Since the average seems to be one bite per day, once you've had it, whether you landed it or not you might as well rockfish. It's likelier to be more productive. Good call, Captain.

     Tim Nelson sent over these photos: "Proof that bananas are not bad luck." Tim caught the boat's only fish today, a salmon, a halibut, and a lingcod. 

I'm still going to keep bananas off the boat. Just in case.