Here's a picture from Thursday. Conor Padon and his junior Padon are showing their catch from the bar. Conor smacked two srtipers and a halibut on jigs. We (Gage, Richard Porterfield and I) took two trips to catch the same thing. As far as I know, this was the best result from the bar on Thursday. The crazy good bite of Tuesday night rapidly devolved to scratching a few fish here and there. The bar has been slow and Hog, slower. But, fish are being caught.

    Megan Hirschfeld caught this 23 pounder at Hog today. No other biters, but the team effort paid off for one big enough to share. I didn't hear what this fish bit, but most of the fish coming in now are the results of grit and perseverance, as there aren't that many coming in. Grinding is a valid method. Nice work, Team Hirschfeld, as they aren't coming easy.

    Big fish of the day is this 30 pounder. Cameron sent this message with it: "Lapp crew, 30 lbs. First and only bite by the weather buoy on "one of those stupid tubes with the green thing on it."" I think that's a Bigfoot Bait Jig, as some of them have the green thing in them. Tip of the hat for catching a damned good fish on a lure that you clearly had no faith in. Maybe now? I will say that a lot of the time I think that anything presented in front of a fish will catch. But the tubes, when properly jigged, will dart around like a scared baitfish, and that seems important. It can surely help an indecisive fish make the right (or wrong, if you're the fish) decision. Nice fish, folks. Keep jigging.

    So as Gage, Richard and I went out on Thursday we passed a Klamath boat with three people that looked familiar. Holy crap! It was Frank Green, David Gonzales and the Jigger John. I didn't hear anything further until today when Kerry Apgar sent me this photo. That's a halibut and a white seabass for you folks playing along at home. Kerry also said that the seabass was really tasty. Dammit. I'd like to think that those were my fish, but when the jigging is happening the world likely belongs to people with "Jigger" in their nickname. 

   I gotta get a new, functional nickname. 

   Also, the fishing, aside from these fish, was pretty slow. High boat that I heard of was four fish at the bar and a mix of stripers and halibut. Their bait was caught outside the bay proper and was mostly anchovies, but there are a few big sardines out there. Hog has been dead but  clearly a few fish have trickled back. No spot is good but there's possibilities.