Sorry Mike Mack, but but we have a new leader on the big salmon board. Mike's 35 pound salmon has been surpassed by Vance Staplin's 42 pounder landed today. The tiny fish in Vance's left hand only weighed 29 pounds. Vance and crew fished from Bird down to at least Abbott's Lagoon from 40 to 70 feet of water and scratched out five fish in eight hours of fishing. It ain't a hot bite, but if you stumble over the right little school of fish you could be very happy. Or, you could be fishless and bitter like most of the fishermen today. Most fishermen caught no salmon today, but a few have been doing well over the last couple of days. Kapulani Chong and his grandfather, Rudy Ai (you have to love it when the rare person travels from Hawaii to here to go fishing. Maybe it was because of Captain Chong?) each landed 29 pound salmon yesterday. Mike Lincoln had two salmon in the twenty pound range yesterday. There are some fish, and they are big fish, but they ain't easy fish. The halibut fishing is just about the same situation. Swampy had four halibut to 35 pounds on Wednesday and then skunked on Thursday. 

 

    Gage and I just got back from a trip on the Pacific Queen out of Fisherman's Landing. It was a good trip and it killed my bluefin Jonah. Finally. Flylining rules.