Vern Sasaki caught a 27.5 pound white sea bass yesterday, plus he and his buddy boated three salmon as well. They were mooching off of McClure's in 90-100 feet of water. There were a couple of other salmon trolled up there as well. Ten Mile has had a few salmon in 40 to 100 feet (the commercial fleet seems to be working the 80-100' area pretty consistently). There were a few halibut speared on the bar on Sunday but yesterday's divers and fishermen came up empty. Hog Island had one halibut for Scott from Auburn. The halibut bit his one and only live jacksmelt.

  

Two white sea bass were brought in today, a 27 pounder by Gerald Bunch and a 31 pounder by Mike Stahl. Gerald caught his on a jig off of McClure's, along with a halibut.  Mike's bit a drifted herring at Elephant Rock. I am jealous of both of them. The halibut in the picture was caught from a kayak in the bay.
Salmon were caught from Bird Rock down to Point Reyes, with most of them coming from Ten Mile Beach. The beach also had a few halibut. I didn't hear of any particular spot that was better than any other. It was slow enough that the rockcod took a beating today. The Due Regard went on an albacore scouting run and found green water and lots of birds but no tuna outside of Cordell to at least the 123°40' line.

Dvir Brakha caught this 20 pound lingcod on Sunday.

Ron Johnson caught his limit of halibut and one salmon on the south end of Ten Mile yesterday. Ron's halibut liked blue label herring but the salmon took an anchovy.  A couple of other boats caught a few salmon down that way as well. I heard of one other halibut taken in the bay yesterday. It was caught on a 6" live jacksmelt.  

Stacy Barton caught this 20 pound ling on his first drop at Point Reyes today. His boat ended up with four limits of rockfish and lingcod and they were back in time for his Seahawks game. Too bad for him, they still lost. He could have spent that time more productively by trolling for salmon. There were a few salmon caught today and a few more halibut from the big beach, but mostly boats returned with limits of rockfish. 

John Kuhlman put the hook in a 38 pound salmon today. He seems kind of happy about it.

Also happy was the crew of the Predator who landed several halibut today, including this 28 pounder. They were trolling Ten Mile, "all by ourselves".

This green cabezon weighed 14 pounds. That's 7 pounds of head! I kid, but it's not coincidence that cabeza means head in spanish. Supposedly the green color in the flesh of many cabezons and ling cod comes from eating lots of shrimp, so go easy on the endless shrimp platter at Red Lobster.

I'm not sure if this is a big vermillion or small model holding it, or both. Probably both. A lot of rockfish came in today but so did quite a few salmon, especially from the Tomales Point to McClure's Beach area. Halibut sounded like they were mostly caught on the south end of  Ten Mile but not everyone was talking.