Ed Parsons sent me this: "Got these Monday with a couple of other blind squirrels.  Think it'll make honorable mention for Gages calendar?" Maybe, but you really should be laying down behind the fish.  That's a nice pile of white meat but I'm guessing that the smiles would be even bigger if the fish were already cleaned. Well, Gage heard that the halibut were caught at McClure's Beach, so on Wednesday he and his buddy Mason took a trip down.

     They did well after a slow start. At 1:00 PM they had one halibut. By 3:00 they had five, then hooked a quadruple. With shaking hands they released three fish. Of their eight keepers, three bit live bait. The others liked the Bigfoot Jigs better. The lings liked both jacksmelt and jigs and the sand sole were 50/50 jigs/bait. So. what to do on my day off?

      I went where Gage went. A friend of mine often askes himself when fishing, WWGD? I just did as I was told and pointed the boat towards McClure's. At the end of the fishing day, Gage had two halibut to 26 pounds, Chris Brown had two halibut to 18.5 pounds (plus one 23 incher released safely) and I caught a barely legal (but very tasty) cabazon. The wind came up today and required some boat piloting to slow the drift when the wind blew harder than our parachute could compensate for. The ride home was cold, wet, and bumpy. Tomorrow should be less wet and bumpy. The biggest halibut ate a big jacksmelt and everything else (including five short halibut released safely) ate the jigs. The water was only 53º. Inside the bay there were a few halibut caught in Jed's Hole. I'd share the spot, but it isn't mine. At least it was Jed that caught the halibut in his hole. 

    Craig Dahl caught this nice green lingcod on Tuesday. The greenies are the best. It is lingcod spawn time and they are coming in closer to shore to make lots more lings. If you catch a big female full of eggs it would probably be a good idea to release her as more lings are good and spawners have a bit stronger taste.