James Kell landed this 19 pound halibut while drifting a green label herring in 30' of water off McClure's Beach. No salmon, but he doesn't seem too disappointed. 

Paul Boley trolled most of Ten Mile beach for this halibut and salmon. 

A correction: Thursday's halibut came from the Laird's Landing/"Hippy Camp" area. There are fish at Hog Island, though as proved by Jerry Knedel, above, and Denny Rhodes, below. Both fish were taken on live shiners around the bottom of the tide. The guys that fished further into the bay had no action.

The salmon fishermen from here didn't bring any home yesterday but there were a few radio fish from Fort Ross and rumors of fish from 180 feet of water off of Tomales Point and Ten Mile. The rockfish bit well for those that tried for them. 

Hog Island halibut

The halibut are officially in at Hog Island. These were caught this morning on drifted live shiners around the bottom of the tide. A third one was unintentionally released.

I'm sad to report that an abalone diver drowned at Tomales Point this morning. The weather conditions were pretty good this morning with very little swell, but sometimes stuff happens. My condolences to his family and friends.
   Also today the wardens wrote up a group of six people with 160 clams. 120 of them were in pieces, secreted about their persons. Apparently, that kind of behavior will get your boat confiscated. Good to know.

Of the two boats that left from here yesterday, one did well on rockfish and the other caught a 12 pound salmon in 77 feet of water off the north end of Ten Mile on a purple haze hootchie. Kurt Monser sent in this report from yesterday: "Today June 1st I pulled in 2 king Salmon 17# & 20# mooching with herring at McClures Beach in 30' of water... Then pulled in a 28# Halibut just north of there just south of Bird rock. Epic day all around." That's a pretty good report, I'd say. For your bad report, my cousin, a commercial fisherman, caught few salmon while fishing south by Pigeon Point, but did catch two California lizardfish, something he'd not seen before in his 30+ years of fishing. He's taking it as a bad omen for the season. Also a bad omen, the salmon were eating those little blue jellyfish, the "by-the-wind-sailors," which are probably low on a salmon's list of favorite foods. I think I like Kurt's report better for my omen.