Jerry Knedel found them a bit closer today, as in four miles out at 38 16 by 123 04. Jerry caught a 22.5 and 23 pound salmon today on green label herring on baiter blades, no flasher. Other boats are catching in the area as well, but it isn't a wide open bite. Pete Sequeira caught salmon up to 17 pounds about a mile south of Jerry's numbers, 30 pulls down with 2 pound balls and green label herring.

Jerry Knedel and Vern Sasaki put four salmon in the boat yesterday, the big one going 25 pounds. They caught them in 250 feet of water centered on about 38 04 and 123 04, 50 pulls down with 24 ounce balls (I don't know what that translates to in feet of downrigger wire), all while tacking north. The water had a little color to it. The folks from here that tried north had nothing. 

Looks like there's a few Dungeness crab lurking off of the pier. Not all the pots looked like this one but some folks were thinking they might limit out today.

From the sound of it, there's a salmon bite off of Point Reyes and further south. It was scratchy, but a few fish are way better than none. Slow action on the rockfish.

Mark van Loben Sels (in the middle of the van Loben Sels clan, pictured) of Walnut Grove caught this 16.5 pound salmon off and a little north of Bodega Head in 220 feet of water. Other boats were putting a few in the box in the same area. A lingcod was put in the boat earlier while rockfishing close to the beach about a mile above Salmon Creek. The water is flat, cold and clear but should get some color and some warmth if the wind will just lay off for a bit. According to the radio there's a few salmon off of Point Reyes as well.

The longnose lancetfish are running in the surf! Or, at least one showed up there this morning. Today's got bludgeoned pretty well, but a good picture of another lancetfish from Dillon Beach is here. They are normally a deep water, offshore fish but my guess is that they occasionally they get carried inshore by the upwelling water. The spring winds have certainly provided us with a surplus of upwelling this year. No other fish of note landed here over the weekend. There were some crabs caught from the pier and bay, including a couple of limits of Dungeness from the pier on Saturday. The weather was pretty bad over the weekend and contributed to one fisherman out of Bodega Bay losing his boat but thankfully not his life. Here's the story in the Press Democrat: http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20130602/ARTICLES/130609936/0/search

UPDATE: Nick, the fisherman that grabbed the lancetfish, was kind enough to share with us in the shop. We grilled it. We now know why there is no commercial fishery for lancetfish. Thanks, Nick, but no more for us.