I received this photo from Gage yesterday. His note:" Pat (not pictured) from Sac with a 18 lb halibut caught on dead anchovy on the bar". So dead bait worked. And, Pat doesn't want his picture taken. Both items are good information, for different reasons. Nice fish, invisible Pat, and well pictured, fish models.

     About 1:00 PM today these gentlemen boated up for a photo op. Their "smallest" fish went 14 pounds and the big boy hung at 27 pounds. The big one was caught by Sebastian Evans of Santa Rosa. All of these fish pictured here bit live jacksmelt. Live bait had a bit of a pause in its parade of success, but the parade is back on, it seems. As it should be. Nice damn work, boys. Way to ignore all of the negative reports and just catch. You make it seem like halibut is en fuego here. Well, if it is, it's only because halibut fishing everywhere else in California sucks worse. Both can be true.

   Here's the report from Austin Muir: "Hey Willy, 

My dad and I went crabbing on Monday 06/22 for Father’s Day weekend, we didn’t have high expectations because of your reports, also it being end of season. Thought we could get enough for dinner for ourselves while camping and we’d be happy (along with our scallops I surprised him with). After 3 1/2 hours, and lots of heavy heavy pulls of undersized crab, we settled with 19 really good looking keepers by 12:30pm. Launched at 8am. We figured we’d save that last crab for the boys that may go out this week! As always, the fish gods blessed us. And maybe the 20 years of constant learning/experience may have helped. But we will never know. 

My dad has been bringing me here since I was a baby, and some of mine & my brother’s best memories have been made on the water launching from Lawson’s. Thanks for everything. 

Sincerely, 

The Muir boys - aka the deplorable’s" Very nice, Austin! The crabbing has been, in a word, bad. 19 keepers is pretty awesome. Keep being deplorable, I guess. It's working.