Eddie Kim caught this personal best 21 pound lingcod today. It bit a P-Line Ling Cod Rig squid in glow green. Eddie's not saying where.

    Well, if you're only going to get one bite all day, this seems like a pretty good one. Tom Carter caught this halibut on a live jacksmelt. Apparently the fish was dieting, as this 42 inch long fish only weighed in at 26 pounds. Tom's not complaining, though. He was fishing near Hog Island and the water was only 50 degrees.

    There's been a rumor that the stripers may be following those schools of anchovies into the bay, and that there may be a few to catch on the bar or in the channels leading toward Hog Island. I don't know if it's true, but a good rumor should always be passed along. You never know.

   Here's another one of the stripers that was supposed to be mine. "Hey Willy, Another striper from from Friday night, hooked 2 but lost the bigger one. Also my son Evan caught several big redtail to 15 inches. Best action was 1 hour before dark. Later Tim Peelen" Thanks Tim. Good to know that I was in the right place at the right time, not catching.

    Last night I didn't catch any stripers and now I know why. This was supposed to be my fish. Jim Reed caught this 16 pounder in the surf yesterday before I had a chance to get out there. There were some other stripers taken as well, mostly schoolies but a few others ran into the teens. Surfperch were also in the buckets yesterday. 

   Almost all of the halibut fishermen went without fish today, but these gents landed three keepers on the troll between Hog and Marshall. Dead bait worked fine for them. Better weather tomorrow should give the drifters a chance to get even.

   Joe Winn and crew had more difficulty catching the bait than the halibut. After spending "too much time" only to catch one livey they ended up fishing at Hog, the bar and off of Dillon Beach to catch their flatties. The big one (18 pounds) bit the only live bait, so it seems like it's the way to go, if possible. The cold water at this end of the bay has kept the shiners away, so if you want a perch for bait you'll need to look farther back. There's some schools of anchovies moving into the bay, probably heading for the tropics in the back bay, and the theory is that the halibut are following the bait in. I wonder who else might be chasing 'chovies? More striper stories from the beach today with a few more lost on perch gear and at least one 22 pound striper landed on a Cotton Cordell Pencil Popper. That's right, a topwater. 

   Gage was too sick to go fishing last evening so I went out and caught his fish. He says he's feeling better now. This one weighed eleven pounds and hit a four ounce Kastmaster with a white bucktail. It took four years for a fish to finally bite that thing. There were a couple other stripers caught near dark, and a few more hooked during the daylight hours, so it may be striper time in the surf. Also in the surf...

   ....are some really nice redtails. When the perch are biting striper gear it's probably time to fish for perch. The rockfishing sounded slow yesterday with some nice fish but not too many of them. The crabbing remains, well, slow.