I missed this report that was sent in last night. Walter Knorre sent over this picture and story: "Today was our first try of the year fishing Tomales Bay. Fished from Hog to the yellow buoy from 6 am to 5 pm. Lots of nice size bait using our sabiki rods. Pretty slow halibut bite for us. But our last drift produced these two nice keepers. Love your website and always enjoy reading the reports" I like getting them even more than you like reading them, Walter. Content with less work on my end. What's not to like? So thanks for your report, and nice work on the fish. Other halibut fishermen yesterday seemed to get them either first thing or last thing with midday being pretty dead. Nice weather, though. Today also had great bait catching reports but limited flatfish. A pretty good rule is that if you catch your bait easy then the halibut fishing will be hard, and vice versa. If you can't catch a bait to save your life but the tide is turning and the water is warm, give up and jig or swimbait the turn. You may not need bait. That said, it does seem that this season the fish are biting better at mid-tide than at the turn, and they seem to bite larger baits better. They stick to the hooks way worse with big bait, but they gotta bite before you have a chance at hooking them, so maybe soak one big'un and feed the heck out of them.