Here's a salmon report from Sea Hunter: "full day trolling Monday for one 24”er. How do you single handle a fish and pull up manual downrigger simultaneously? it wrapped around the cable three times. Thought for sure I would lose it. First fish for me this season

Sea Hunter" If you landed it, it wasn't completely wrong. A lot of guys will continue trolling forward with the rod in the holder while they wind up the downrigger. Some guys leave the downrigger down and keep it trolling forward in the hopes of the fish not overrunning the cable. I mostly drop leads, especially while solo fishing, so it's harder to find things to stick the line on. Somehow, I still find the things. The most exciting part of fishing is often trying to save the fish after it wraps another line, a motor, the transducer, floating bull kelp, other boats, etc. It gets my heart rate up just thinking about it. There weren't many fish getting caught out there, so extra good work on the one that didn't get away.

   Sunday, 7:00 PM is when your traps have to be out of the water. This is for all crab, Dungeness and reds both. The end is nigh. For traps. Rings, snares and conical nets are still open.