How do you make a slow halibut bite even slower? Maybe a tsunami? Well, it can't make it better. I heard of maybe five halibut today, four of them from the mouth to the rocks just north of Dillon Beach proper. I haven't heard of much from Hog Island for a bit. There's some bait (mostly anchovies) coming and going but just not that many halibut chasing them. I guess that after 2.5 years of no salmon the halibut have dwindled. Go figure. A positive note, if you want to call it that, is that effort is dropping as interest in saltwater fishing is dropping. We will probably see a bump in interest as tuna start hitting the docks, but even the guys from tuna central in San Diego are complaining of a lack of interest. I'm not sure what could be better than bluefin, but if bluefin fishing gets boring for you, well, don't watch The Deer Hunter. 

    One of the few fish caught today was by this guy. It weighed 21 pounds and was caught outside the bay on a Bigfoot Baits jig in 50 feet of water. One or two of the other fish landed today were also caught on the jig. They definitely work if you can find a spot with fish in it. That's the hard part. Also, there may be squid around, and if so, it will likely concentrate what halibut there are out in the ocean in 50 to 100 feet of water. Gage here spent a portion of his morning trolling for halibut on McClure's but caught nothing but salmon. Eleven salmon released. A pair of gentleman yesterday released 16 salmon while trying to catch a halibut while trolling off of Dillon Beach. If you see a hatchery guy (not from Coleman) you should hug them if they let you. They have done fantastic work. There are a lot of salmon in the ocean, just not enough expected to return to the main stem Sac river. So the biomass of salmon shoos off the fish we can legally catch but cannot be kept themselves. FYI, if there was ever a chance to land a salmon from shore in Dillon Beach, that time is so now. It probably won't happen, but normally it definitely won't happen, so good luck!  And photos if it happens. There are tons of anchovies pushed up against the beach and almost as many salmon trying to eat them. Watch for pelicans and then run to them. You know, for stripers. They are out there and feeding on the same stuff in the same ways.