Not the biggest fish of the day, but the most important one. This was a first halibut moment: "Andrew Vara from Sac with a 10 lbs halibut from the bar live smelt" Andrew, I'd like to tell you that they get easier after the first one, but that ain't always true, so... Nice fish. There were a couple of halibut fom the bar today, not red hot, but lots more than there has been. I guess 61º water will do that. Well, it'll do it better than 48º water.

   On the salmon front, most guys were working the offshore, 260'+ water today, and most of them caught keepers. Quite a few had limits. Most were running their gear pretty deep, 120 to 180 feet OTW, but one boat landed keepers (kings) from 237' to 30'. Most boats had silver issues, even those that worked in close to the beach. There were some salmon caught in 50 to 120 feet of water today, and some of those salmon were the right kind. So far as I heard, best results were still from 15 by 6 and higher numbers, (16 by 7, 21 by 10, you get it) but there are fish on the beach. Thank the fish gods.