Cannon Brunkhorst has been unseated as the "big salmon guy" at Lawson's Landing in 2022. Mike Mack caught this 35 pounder today to unseat the king. He and Curly DiBella fought a sea lion to get this fish in the boat. They didn't want the federally protected marine mammal to ingest the hook (that would be bad for the sea lion)(it wasn't good for the salmon, was it?) so they chased it and got the salmon back. Three times the sea lion had this fish in its jaws. When a lion grabs your fish, it ain't over. Get. It. Back. For the marine mammal's sake. And yours. Nice fricking job, guys. You looked tired, Mike. How tired was Mike? He was back well before 4:45. If you know Mike, that's near whupped. The guys fished in the area of 12 by 5 to 15 by 6. 

    

   From Branden Mendoza: "Hey Willie we were out yesterday. Found some fish early. Lost some good ones but still manged to pickup 3 fishing around bodega head. 245 feet of water we fished 200 feet on the wire most of the day but caught the last 1 at 100 feet down"  No numbers but Branden puts himself in a fairly definable area. Nice fish, Branden. Not everybody caught a fish out there.

   In the bay there's been a few halibut caught. Nice sized fish, just not many of them. Better sized from Hog to the mouth of the bay, but the cold water at high tide has slowed the bite on the highs near the mouth. There's a few stripers on the beach but I can't catch one. Guys are seeing them boil but not really bite. I need biters. The surf is mostly frustrating.