These are the first albacore landed at Lawson's Landing in a few years. Thankfully, Gage caught a couple of them, so maybe he will relax about going tuna fishing (not likely). We ran to 37º 23' by 123º 03' and did our fishing within a few miles of that point. We were planning on going to 37º 11' by 123º 03' but as we were running down we saw a guy in a Cabo boat hook up. I realized that we were in a Cabo, too, so we had better fish there. We had two singles and two doubles, the first single being unintentionally released by my awesome gaff skills. Don't worry, I got more practice. It did put Gage on his keister when the line parted. Most of the fish bit zucchini/Mexican flag colors at 6 knots. I have a feeling that the guys that went further south did better but we didn't want to leave fish to look. It was a 170 mile round trip, launched at 5:45, returned at 7:00, and if I'm lucky, in bed in 20 more minutes. On the local front, I heard of one boat landing a limit of 18 pound salmon on the north end of  Ten Mile, although 60 feet of water at Tomales Point looked pretty good to me on the way in, lots of pelicans diving in groups and singles over a pretty wide area.

   Not a lot of salmon or halibut to report for today, but good news for the surfcasters. This is one of two stripers caught off of the beach this morning. Both fish were liking his ghost shrimp for bait.

    I need to go back to Labor Day to find a salmon picture, but Kelley Roy was kind enough to send in a report with a photo:"Willy-  Still out here at the 250 foot line south of Russian river. Not real hot fishing but got this guy and a few bites.  Kelley" A few bites sounds pretty good right now. There's a huge school of bait at the Keyholes and more scattered down Ten Mile but not too many fish in there eating all of those anchovies. I think I'm going to go chase ghost fish tomorrow and run after stories of albacore. Probably stories is all they are, but this will keep my gasoline from from spoiling.

   There are some salmon coming from off of Carmet to Fort Ross in 200-300 feet of water and as deep as you can get your gear. Of course, these salmon came from McClure's Beach in 60 feet of water. The McClure's bite this year has been, let's call it flaky. Good to great for a day (or an hour) and then dead for a week. Hopefully the fish stick around for a bit, but if you have the downrigger, maybe think about Carmet.

   Steven Knudsen sent in this Saturday report:"Tomales local, Eric Knudsen caught his very first keeper King Salmon this weekend trolling off Jenner at 230 feet and 75 on the wire. " Very nice.

    The rockfishing has been good in the deeper water at Bird Rock, Elephant Reef, and points south. You can fish out to approximately 240 feet and the best bite that I have heard of was 160' or deeper. Before you go, familiarize yourself with identifying yelloweye rockfish, as they have been showing up in the shallows like they never have before.

    Well, I asked for salmon information yesterday and here it is. This one was caught fly fishing near Point Reyes. By fly fishing, I mean that they were fishing in the shade created by the bodies of ten million flies. Jerrie Carter caught this 18 pounder while trolling with Herb Hansen. This was the only bite in two days of fishing, but the flies were so bad that they left soon after landing it. Today we saw no salmon brought in and only a few halibut. The rockfishing was good, at least.

     You'd think that with the slow ocean fishing, Nick Bauer would be happier about his catch. Well, the rest of us were happy to see that the fish in the bay are still biting. 

    Under his mask, Eddie Kim is smiling. This one weighed 18 pounds and was the cherry on top of his and Nick's limits of rockfish Thursday. Rockfish were caught in the ocean and the halibut from right behind Hog.

    Eddie shows us here an example of the only fish biting in the ocean for the last couple of days. The way they tasted after Eddy cooked them, that's OK. I'll take seconds, please. If somebody catches a salmon, please let me know.