Monday, June 30, 2025

       George Homenko sent over this report to refute my claim of slow halibut fishing:

    "Had a good day fishing on Sunday.  Miller Park looked like it was opening day for dungeness. I'm amazed at how many boats and kayaks were out.  Weekdays for me from now on.   I've been out several times in the last month with no luck, but this time I landed two nice halibut in under 90 minutes.  One was 25 inches and the other was 34 inches.
I was drifting by the red and green day marker north of Hog, in about 20 feet of water.  There was a gentle outgoing current, and I was bouncing frozen herring.  Caught them both near there." 
    Thank you for reminding us that popsicles (frozen bait) are still considered tasty by halibut. Live bait tends to work better but dead bait can still catch. Sometimes it's better than live. Nice work on the flatties, George. I believe that the Miller Park situation was a mix of halibut fishing being perceived as not so good in San Francisco but better here, and a really low tide getting a lot of clammers on the water. It sounds like a few fish are trickling in to San Francisco Bay now too. 


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