Gage caught this perch yesterday afternoon. It was in a striper's stomach. One of a pair of stripers he caught. That's a big damn bait. Gage's bait was a Redrum tube which was much smaller than this surfperch, but it still worked. Apparently the stripers don't need you to match the hatch. God love 'em. 

    Gage and I had an obligation to provide fresh fish for a fish fry this evening. The weather looked.... like maybe? It worked. We had time for maybe as many as seven drops before the wind hit fully and we had to bail. One Petrale sole, 14 black cod (sablefish), seven big chilipeppers, three tiny greenstripes and a hake are what we caught in about ninety minutes before we were driven off by Gage's desire to live. The wind line moved a bit and we had to bail. Just as well, as cleaning all them critters took a bit of time. This evening's taste test results were that the hake and sablefish were excellent, but the striper was the best. 

    One other report from Marshall.  There's some halibut back there. Not many, and not big, but fish. Five for one boat today.