thurs tbay

My son and I went to Tbay today. I caught a couple near Hog. Not large but no need to measure. A few days ago when this site was down we went out and got limits, four fish. Nice ones. Largest was over 20#. Next day we went out again and not a bite between us. It is hit and miss in Tomales this year. I have no advice for anyone fishing Tbay, having had more skunks this year than fish.

That’s good stuff!  Thanks

Thanks for the report and beautiful picture. Charles.

Thank you for the report 

Every day on Tomales is a good day. Catching something is just a bonus.

Thanks for the report!

this year for me tomales was weird. I started fishing tomales in june, found a couple but very spread out, late june to early july not a lot of fish around but they were big. mid july thought I got located, was wrong. end of july to august was windy, didnt catch anything in the wind, spent multiple trips this year in mid 20mph wind per lawsons webcam, windy and wet. through august couldnt find fish in the bay so I spent all my time on the bar and off dillons, caught and released a lot (easy 20+) of 22"-24" fish and connected with several threshers. september rolled around and the weather finally got good and finally a good slug of fish moved into the bay. I heard a lot more catching from others and I got located and finished filling the freezer. my last trip was the 24th and I was done in an hour and a half or so of fishing.

shallowest fish: 8ft off dillon
deepest: 25ft down in 36ft in the bay mouth

most successful trolling rig was a purple haze hoochie behind 8" hotspot (my leftover salmon rig, barbless and all). also caught 1 on a lucky craft flash minnow, and got a few stripers on a trolled glide bait.
- i never trolled bait, 2 expensive and 2 much work

artificials: bigfoot baits white tube caught the most halibut, probably around 15 or so, good portion of those were a few inches under though, biggest on the tube was maybe 28", almost all tube fish got released. classic chart/pearl swimbait got most quality fish, nothing on the drop shot fluke, the laser minnow, or the 7" fluke

1 perch got eaten and the fish broke me off
nothing on mudsuckers sometimes I snag them with my swimbait and send them down on a rig. once this season one of my halibut had a few in its stomach though

most fish were caught on smelt
biggest fish was caught on smelt

as always thanks for the report charles, glad to hear you got on some good fish .