There are halibut on the bar and quite a few of them. In fact, this one, a 30 pounder caught by Fred Meyer of Fair Oaks, was caught there yesterday. Many others were caught as well but none as large. Live bait and jigs were putting the flatties in the box.

The water was lumpy outside yesterday but there was still salmon in it. One boat limited out just around the corner between Tomales Point and Bird Rock. I didn't hear about any halibut yesterday but I did hear about a few white seabass landed just south of Elephant Rock, some more thresher sharks caught off of Dillon Beach and some nice salmon landed from in front of the southern estero.

Doug Koinzan of Lodi put his boat over the fish back by Hog Island today, enabling him to catch a 21 pound halibut and Ken Morgan to catch this 49 pound, 62" sturgeon. They had two other halibut as well. The halibut were caught on bucktail jigs, the sturgeon on a live shiner perch.

Lou Zanardi, with a 27# salmon, and Larry Hoberg, with a 22.5 pound salmon, limited out before 11AM yesterday. The were trolling in 70' of water just off the bottom.
Paul Page of Sacramento was back with an early limit yesterday as well, including this 30 pounder. Paul mooched them up just south of Bird reef.
Robert Pfeifle of Lodi caught this 27 pound salmon while trolling yesterday.

Apparently there's a few halibut on the bar. Bill Adams of Oakdale speared this 25 pound halibut yesterday. The salmon fishing was spotty with some scattered boats limiting out and the guys fishing next to them skunked. The average was still over one per boat. No real hot spots to speak of, just the general area around Bird Rock still being the best bet.