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April 18
The Salmon bite is still going good for the trollers around the Pajaro and Mulligan area. The same numbers as yesterday were producing a few early limits 36'48/121'49. The trollers are doing well in the morning before the wind comes up. The wind waves came up in the afternoon making it rough. The winds are expected to slow down on Thursday. I did not get any reports from the Soquel Hole area. There are some Thresher Sharks and Barracuda being caught mixed with the Salmon and bait balls. The Thresher Sharks are in the 40 pound range.

Are there limits/restrictions on thresher?  I understand they're yummy.

Don't know what the restrictions are on the Thresher Sharks....but Brian might know   . I remember him hooking up a couple 'em during the Santa Cruz Kayak Connection Derby a few years back. I believe he caught them just outside the mouth of the harbor.

Chuck E. got one at HMB last year

I know they are good eating - had some at a BBQ party    GOOOD STUFF  

Have you guys heard what the average size of the salmon are down there?

40# is small for a thresher.  I am more intrested in the barricuda I have never heard of them that far north.  They are a blast to catch And verry good to eat if prepared well even thow they have a bad rep.

I saw a couple log barries caught last year out of sc.  They call em slimers down socal.  I'll second that they do taste quite good grilled, but what doesn't?  Haven't had any cuda in a long time.  With all the action in the bay pickin up, we can't lose over the next few days!

Without looking at the regs, I want to say the size limit is 36". I encourage cpr. Catch, photo, and release. The ones that we catch out of santa cruz and usually pups. Usually under 100lbs. My best bait for them, live mackrel with about 1oz to .5 hour and just troll or drift around. This weekend, knowing that they are in the area, which they are most of the summer in small numbers, I will be pulling a large Magnum Rapala with fish skin strips attached as attractant. Back to my high horse about catch and release, it takes several years before they can spawn and when they do they don't make many pups per year. Conserve the sharks and eat the salmon and flatties.

-Brian G