FYI, the new rockfish rules became official today. Rockfish season is open! 22" minimum for lingcod. The season runs through December 31. Finally! Also today, two salmon were caught and two more lost by a fisherman at 38 16 and 123 05, and there were two halibut caught by Sacramento Landing, the largest weighing 19 pounds. There was also a limit of Dungeness caught across the bay.

Two halibut from the Marshall area yesterday. There was a salmon caught on Tuesday in 260 feet of water due west of our outer buoy (on the 15 line). Not a lot of action but action nonetheless. It is starting to feel like summer with overcast in the morning and sunny afternoons.

No salmon landed here the last few days. The boats that are catching are out in the deep, about 360 feet of water. There's some bait showing back by Marshall but no halibut that I've heard of lately. Rockfish will open on Monday the 13th as there is no effective date yet set for the new regulations. The regs were adopted on May 26 and sent to the Office of Administrative Law yesterday, so maybe by the end of July we'll get a break on lingcod length. There are still some Dungeness in the bay and the season has another 3 weeks, so if you haven't caught your fill, now's the time to do it.

The local legend caught two more salmon today and the Bodega Bay charter boats had some fish but there were some other good fishermen that came home with nothing but stories of silvers and shorties. The action was scattered but generally around 260 feet of water. Halibut fishermen in the bay haven't been able to hook one this week. One boat had two limits of Dungeness from the bay yesterday, so there's still a few hungry crabs out there.

I received this email yesterday: "Rick White from Folsom caught this 15 lb. Halibut out in front of Cypress in 15 feet of water trolling on Saturday. That confirms the story." This proves two things. There are halibut in the bay, and some of the stories I repeat are true.