Monday's rough water gave up this 20# salmon for Bob King.
Mr. King was kind enough to allow Tom Gerbi to catch the big fish of the day, this 27 pounder. The wind dropped during the day yesterday, so by late afternoon it was only really uncomfortable water conditions, down from kidney-damaging, waves rolling over the boat water conditions. Well, whatever makes the fish bite, I guess.

It is rough outside but the salmon are biting. The boats that toughed it out caught limits or near limits in front of Bird Rock. Not too many boats toughed it out. Nine foot seas and 20 to 30 knot winds outside made the water more than a little uncomfortable. Let's hope the salmon stick around.

A late report from Saturday: more salmon were caught than first reported. The waters around Bird Rock had fish up to 32 pounds. The water has a brown tint to it, about 59 degrees, and the salmon had bellies full of anchovies. Now the wind is forecast to blow for four days. This would be a good time for the forecasters to be wrong.

Halibut and salmon were slow today. A few salmon off of Bird. Halibut were scattered with many boats fishless. An eight foot long thresher shark "released itself" off of Dillon Beach after a 40 minute fight. For the shore casters, leopard shark in the shallows in the cove a quarter mile south of the seawall. Rockfishing was slow and a little painful from all the jellyfish.

Haley Porter of Dillon Beach caught this 29# halibut on a live jacksmelt on the bar yesterday. There were a few other halibut caught on the far end of Ten Mile Beach, but none nearly as big. Tom Brodski and Ron Johnson lost a white seabass that someone else had already lost. They snagged a line that tangled their gear and discovered that a WSB was on the end before it broke off. Losing a fish once is bad enough... Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families of the fishermen lost on Ten Mile on Wednesday. Let's all remember that it is a dangerous place out there no matter your level of experience.