Swampy sent in this report this evening: "Evening Willy,

Hope y’all smoked the heck out of the tuna. Two fish for two roads today to 17 pounds. Looks like we caught  a herniated halibut today. You ever see one like this? Cheers, Swampy." I don't know what kind of heavy lifting a halibut might do that would cause an injury like that. It seems likely that a gaff or seal caused an injury that healed less than ideally. But really, ew. I like your whole fish pictures better. But these are interesting.

        Gage, Alec Bennett and I went out for albacore today, as Swampy mentioned. We had a slow start, as the trim didn't work on one motor and we had a delay while we figured things out. But at 9:00 AM we hooked a quad at 38º 36 and 124º 01. After our initial catch it was 100+ minutes for the next bite, but our day went 4, 3, 1 1, 2, 1. A dozen fish and it felt like we weren't catching. Booh whooh. The hour or better gaps between hookups led to negative feelings between bites. But we got over it. Other guys did better, and some others caught less. But purple water at 30 miles is pretty interesting. It ain't Bragg, but it's here.