Nick Donnelly sent over a report from earlier in the week: "Willy,

Sup bro it's lake county Nick, was just shooting ya a pic of the lip I ripped last Wednesday in that wind squall " I believe this fish weighed 17 pounds and it bit a bullhead by Hog. Yes, a bullhead. It has been very windy and the water has been cold, so the halibut catching from Hog to the mouth has varied from slow to very slow. Good job Nick on catching one in tough conditions.

    Scott Simpson sent a report from this weekend: "Hey Willy, I was worried the wind was going to scratch fishing for the Wet Dream this weekend. We took a chance and launched at 7 am while the wind was manageable.  It turned out being  a rough 5 hours, with 3 foot waves south of Hog, but we kept pushing and made it a day of long drifts. The bait was easy,  caught about 40 smelt.  Finally about noon we reset for another drift and  first drop this 28 incher decided to join us.  Considering we were surrounded  by  nothing but white caps, we called it a day. It was a white knuckle ride back to the Landing.  There are good days and not so good days of fishing. Today was a good day!"  All the returning boats had lots of salt crusted on their windshields but not many had fish. There were a few halibut caught and a few more stripers but mostly fishermen just got a beating from the weather. 

       Crabbing has been mixed with a few coming on snares from shore but better numbers from boats in the bay. At least one boat got limits of Dungeness on both Saturday and Sunday.