Busy week with trips in the beginning of the week, punchuated by two high school graduations (Luke, Work) and then a few trips back to back to end the week.

The wind and water quality has been very tough, in addition to the lack of biomass of bay fluke - makes fishing incredibly tough.

Most trips are having to work through 20 to 30 fish to find a single to a few keepers, but definitely an off year - blame it on cold winter or the commercial fishery had one of their best cycles (boxing some 603,000 pounds of fluke - with some 54,000-lbs over their limit 1/2026 to 2/28/2026) may have impacted our fishery just a tad.

The big news this week was on Friday’s trip with the family of 5 fighting through dogfish and 25+ shorts to finally box a solid 30.5 inch fluke (10.2 pounds) on their last drift.

Late week charters of return clients Bob Dodds fished through 20 shorts to box 2 keeps, followed by return client Ralph Rodio and crew working through 24 shorts to box a single keeper to 2.8 pounds that Steve R weighed for a SJ club tournament.

We are catching, but you have to work extremely hard - jigging is the key. And still holding out hope that we get some more fish pushing in and hoping the ocean bite is bonkers this season - we are well overdue.