Sorry, but I was out of town. Here's some reports, briefly, in no particular order, as I'm sort of brain dead right now...

    "Evening,

Saw some halibut caught today and got a couple in the boat as a well. Jake’s girlfriend (first time fishing) caught her first fish today, the smile says it all. Uncle Bob got his first limit with a 17 and 15 landed by Al who got  a clicker as well. Enjoyed a good day on the bay.

Swampy" Very nice, Swampy. This email was from Friday. Looks and sounds like some fish were caught. No reports of fish chewing the gelcoat off of boats, but fish, which still sounds pretty good. Nice work on catching, Swampy, but you're not supposed to be exposing young people to addictive things, like catching. Another poor soul following the path to tackle shop damnation....

    Branden Mendoza sent over these pictures and report: "Hey Willy. Got back on the water after some time off due to surgery. We did our usual flasher hootchie combo. Landed us a ton of shorts a giant bat ray and a nice 32 inch halibut. Overall a nice day and we were happy to be back out. Also managed to snag a mackerel on the sabiki. " Good to see you're back. Nice work on the keeper, as I haven't been able to catch anything but shorts in the back. If you catch another mackerel you might try trolling it while you're halibut fishing. The macks will troll alive all day if you don't pin their mouths shut and my first seabass bit a (drifted) mackerel. Halibut like them, too. Nice fish, sir.

   On Saturday sport salmon opened up north. While we wait until the 27th for salmon to open here, Mike and Mara Nursement went to Fort Bragg and put some pink meat in the bag. Says Mike, "200ft of water 60pulls 24oz weight watermelon flasher small and small watermelon apex." Yes, it's not here but soon it will be. And it looks like there's fish north and south of us, so it seems our chances of success will be good, weather depending. 

   

  Also on Saturday, Vicky caught this 25 pound halibut. I'm not sure of where or how, but halibut now outnumber white sea bass on the big fish board. 

   I'm afraid that this time I have no name or the weight of the fish but I do know that this striper was caught from shore, probably near Sand Point. I also know that surf stripers are the best. Well done, sir.

   When Eddie Kim texts you and asks if you want to go fish with him and the Pacific Queen Killers, you say yes. Then beg the wife to go. At least, I did, and begging works. Even luckier, the fortnight of no bluefin biting ended during our trip, as the New Lo-An found the fish late Thursday at a place called the Condom. We ran most of the day Friday from our yellowtail bite at the Coronados to almost the Cortez bank to get some blueys. It was good. I can still hear Eddie Kim yelling "Biter!", probably because he did it so often. After my drive home a team of locals assembled and we processed fish, ate sashimi and drank beer and champagne. It was good. And late.

    Also, this: