LM 8/8

Launched the crack of noon and paddled a few miles out and south toward Montara

one small thresher which made my life hell as I was trying to set it free


otherwise no salmon which is what I expected, one nice black that volunteered to be on our dinner menu

fbr and herring

Thanks for the report Paul. I dove early for nada; it was suuweet nonetheless.Water's beautiful. Bait seems to have come and gone. Thank god for rockfish, eh?
Plankton seems to be mostly lacking this year; a little but not the thick red tides of usual for this time of year. Another reason for no salmon?

water got pretty nasty outside later in the day but there was a guy tank diving in the cove when I came in had a nice cabezon

There was a lot more wind than I was banking on, tough making headway back up toward LM


Who knows where the salmon are, hope they aren't fattening up offshore and heading up river early

Just before I hooked up the little thresher I was looking at a big whitecap that kept whitecapping in a freaky way and realized something was making a commotion

When it was maybe 50ft to my side it stopped and something big and light colored shot straight toward me like a bullet just under the surface

Probably just a big dolphin but it gave me a bit of a thrill anyway

Still not the kind of thrill you particularly want to have just after Shark Week.

Scott

When I saw the big shark offshore from Pedro I was pointed right at it

Yesterday I realized that's probably preferable to having something come at you from the side  If it'd been a shark it came so fast it would have been a direct hit with no buffer

I've had the dolphins come at me like that before Somewhere I have a picture of one that has a big chunk of skin removed from its back

The last couple of times I went surfishing near that area (last two week), I saw a couple of porpoises going up and down near the surf zone.  My gosh, I only hope the thing you saw was only that and not jaws!  Last year about the same time, there were killer whales that I saw migrating.

Chances are it was a dolphin.  Seems to erratic for a GW shark.  (no I am not an expert) just a fan of shark week)  While fishing LM earlier this year I saw apprx.  8-10 dolphin feeding on Sardine.  there were moving pretty slow then two of them went nuts on the bait thrashing and making white water, then they took off.  Sounds like what you saw. Blue, If any action is to be had I think the salmon will be north.  The pier was packed at the end today and although I don't have a report of salmon that usually means they are being caught.  could be 1 could be 10.  Pelicans were diving at about the end of the peir. Very fishy looking.  IF you make it out again I would head that way.

Jason