So far today we've pulled out seven boats with limits of salmon, one of them with four limits. Two boats were trolling for six of those fish, the other 18 salmon came mooching. Their secret: "I stayed out of the fleet."

Grant Solberg and Dennis Stocking mooched up two nice limits of salmon today, half from the Trees and half from the Keyholes. 

The Nursements caught just one fish today, but Mara's salmon weighed 27 pounds, so really, they only needed the one. The one fish stories were way more common than the limited out stories, but there were a few other boats that limited today. It was the usual suspects for where the biting fish were found, the Keyholes/Elephant, the Trees, and to a lesser extent, McClure's beach. Depths ranged from 40 to 80 feet with 70 being the most popular. Moochers again scored better than trollers. Surfperch action was good again but the halibut did a no-show. Divers on the bar reported visibility so bad that they couldn't have seen a halibut even if one had been there.

Judy Stahl smacked the salmon again yesterday and...

even let Ron, her husband, catch a couple as well. Three Stahls and a friend mooched on the Teacher's Pet for limits.

Nick Bauer caught a limit to 24 pounds yesterday on the Rookie.

Ryan Larsen's fish weighed 27 pounds. Nick's and Ryan's fish, as well as the Stahl's, all came from a mooching bite just below the Trees. Unfortunately, the bite lasted a couple of hours and the fish moved on. The mooching bite has been pretty good early and late in the right spots. Those spots can change, but seem to run pretty consistently between Bird Rock and the Keyholes. Trolling has been tough, especially with all the jellies and seaweed. Ten Mile has had a few salmon for the die hard troller, although there can be a lot of space between the fish.

Captain Longhair limited out again, this time putting Miss Hooker over a 30 pound salmon. These four fish were all taken on the mooch in 70 feet of water off of Elephant Rock (38°10.5').

Big fish of the day was caught by Shannon Gregory of Marshall and weighed in at 38 pounds, narrowly beating out a 37 pounder caught by Derek Stavenger of San Francisco. Shannon's slug was caught trolling a watermelon Apex at Elephant Rock. It looks like eating squid really makes the salmon put on weight. I'm going to have to reevaluate my calamari intake. 

    Salmon were also taken at Bird Rock and the Trees, as well as a few scattered flurries of action on the south half of Ten Mile. A south breeze made the halibut catching difficult by Hog Island but there were still a few taken there.

Kapulani Chong of Lodi caught this nice 31 pounder today. The fish is larger than it looks, Kapulani makes it look small. A little slower action for the trollers today, a little better for some of the moochers. A few more halibut from Hog Island. It's not red hot but it is better than a few days ago.