For those of you that are all "pictures or it didn't happen," here's the pictures. Kurt Monser had a good day on June 1st and emailed me the proof. According to Kurt: 

"The two salmon were picked up in 20–30 feet of water just off McClure and Driftwood Beach drifting with green label herring.

The halibut 38" 28# was picked up jigging with live (frozen) squid over a sand flat just south of bird rock just north of driftwood beach."

If anyone else wants to brag, please send in your pictures and stories to lawsonslanding@gmail.com. Salmon pictures are especially welcome, as I've seen so few this year I'm not quite sure what they look like. 

Tim Lewis of Roseville weighed in both a 23 and 30 pound halibut today. The boat limited on halibut but the two biggest of the six were caught on jigs. Another six were caught nearby on live shiners. These fish came from further back in the bay, but boats also picked up halibut off of Dillon Beach and Ten Mile Beach. Lots of other bait in the shallower water (less than 200 feet) but no takers for the salmon fishermen. McClure's Beach had only lingcod today and most of them were too small. Divers tried the bar but all they could see was the water. About a dozen Dungeness were caught on the overnight soak on the pier yesterday morning but today wasn't as good.  

    Tom Cook had the last fish on the bragging board last year and now he's got the first fish over 20 pounds this year. This 23 pound halibut was caught off of McClure's Beach in 30ish feet of water on a drifted blue label herring. He limited on lingcod as well. 

    Slooooow on the salmon front but there's fish north and south of us, so no matter which way the fish are headed a few ought to cruise by here. There's some fair numbers of Dungeness starting to come in from the ocean mostly, but a few in bay, too. The halibut at Hog Island seem to be taking a break and the bar is cool and murky but could start with some fish soon. 

   This is Nico and I bet you can tell why he's smiling. The striper and lingcod both went about 10 pounds. These fish were caught pretty close to home but the exact location was not given to me. All told there were six fish in the box, and Nico here caught most of them. He allowed that Steve Towne was a pretty good netter. 

   There was a halibut caught at McClure's yesterday and some other rockfish were caught off of the Trees today. Nice Dungeness, both in size and numbers, coming from the outer bay.

Aside from one report of two halibut caught and two salmon lost at McClure's, there's just two broken rods (a Shimano at McClure's and a Lamiglas from Hippy Camp) and a sandbar sitter. Kudos to the Shrimp Boat crew for pulling the sandbarred boat back to the channel and to the sandbar skipper who continued out to get his rockfish. Kudos as well to the rod breaking fishes that lived to tell about it.