Brandon Tenney of Redding caught half of the halibut landed here today. Even luckier, he caught the larger half. This one weighed 22 pounds and was caught by Hog Island. The other fish came from the bar. There were a few rockfish caught before the wind chased the boats off of the water but no salmon. Looks like wind for at least one more day, but the water could use a little cooling. Check out the water temp at the Bodega weather buoy:  

65º is a little too warm for salmon.

Rob Sereni found a few salmon off of McClures today. The big one weighed 25 pounds. It was nice of his buddy Jeff to let him catch all of the fish. I need to ask Jeff if he wants to go fishing with me. He takes great photos.

Mara Nursement caught her first salmon of the season and it weighed in at 20 pounds. Not a bad start at all. All told, I heard of nine salmon landed by boats from here. They caught them from the Trees to the Keyholes in 60 to 90 feet of water and there was no single hot spot (that they told me). From the radio, there's still a lot of effort and some catching of salmon at the Bodega Whistle/Jingle Bells reefs. The rockfishing was slower today. The halibut bite was slower, too, but there were still boats catching some. High catch for halibut went to Stacy Barton with five from Ten Mile.

It would appear that Ron Johnson picked up a salmon in 70' of water off of the Trees this morning. No further messages from Ron, so this may have been a one-off. I heard of a boat landing nine salmon this morning but they wouldn't give me a location. He had been fishing the Bodega Whistle  earlier in the week but I don't think he was there today.

Kapulani Chong landed this 26 pound halibut on the bar today. He was one of the lucky few, as the bar didn't have nearly as good of a bite today as it did yesterday. Ten Mile was very good for halibut with one boat landing nine and another catching four in a couple of hours. 

This 11 pound salmon was caught by Thomas from Sonora yesterday.

Also yesterday, Chris Cortez from Sunnyvale got a limit of halibut, two of them weighing 20 pounds each. The halibut bite was better on the bar than by Hog Island and there were even a few stripers in the mix on the bar. Catches ranged from 0-3 halibut. The Bodega Whistle (buoy "12") salmon bite continues with a few boats catching limits but many boats going without a bite. Even though it's flaky it's still the best salmon bite we've had this year. Remember, it's trolling only in a good portion of the fishing area off of Bodega Head and no fishing at all in in another part. For a refresher, go here: http://www.dfg.ca.gov/marine/pdfs/mpamaps/bodegahead.pdf or look at this smaller picture:

Lorca Rossman of Olema caught this 22 pound (gutted) salmon today. I didn't get the info on where he caught it, but I'm sure nobody is interested in that kind of thing. My guess would be at Jingle Bells (the Bodega Whistle, Buoy "12" on your chart) where quite a few boats were trolling the bottom and some of them caught some salmon. It's not a red hot bite by any means, but there's a fair chance of success.

Wayne Gonsalves of Valley Springs caught the big fish of the day, a 29 pound halibut. Halibut were the number on catch today, with the bar, McClure's and the Keyholes being the most productive. The bar even had a few stripers in the mix to liven things up.