I have been asked not to put up any photos of halibut speared on the bar. So, officially, this 14.5 pound halibut was procured by unknown means, somewhere, by a smiling man in a rubber suit. There were some halibut caught on the bar today (one boat had as many as eight on board, but I don't know what percentage were bar fish other than at least a few of them). Jigs and live bait (and maybe an occasional spear?) were the killers. The guys salmon fishing from here didn't get any but I heard a few reports of a few fish caught in the outer bay and off of McClure's Beach. Two different boats reported seeing single large tuna jumping out of the water. My thinking is that the jellyfish would have eaten all the bluefin before they could get here, but both guys were sure that the fish they saw were larger than a bonito can get. Who knows? Now I'm looking forward to getting skunked on bluefin near home. That's a lot less gas and running. 

     Here's another salmon report from Branden Mendoza: "Hey willy it's been a rough couple of weeks for us but we were finally back out on the water. Ran down to 10 mile found loads of bait in about 80 feet of water. Managed to hook 2 fish. lost 1 and got the other. Pops couldn't be happier to finally put his first fish of the year on the boat. Caught it on a watermelon apex fishing 2 feet off the bottom the other was on a crippled anchovy at 44 feet on the wire. Fish weighed in at 20lbs." Kinda waiting a little late in the season to go get that first salmon. I guess you were waiting for them to get bigger. Looks like it worked. Well done, sirs.