A good bottomfishing trip!  Typically no halibut in the box would be a bad thing.  However 18 bottomfish in the box and releasing a nice 80 pound halibut with good weather and good crew was a lot of fun!  Ran to Dall head for some good bottomfishing was a great idea given the fact that salmon fishing is horrible right now.  In my 35 years in Ketchikan Alaska I have never seen phytoplankton bloom and turn the water a very light silty green color.  The salmon I have caught have been kind of a pale color, it is weird.  I heard they are like that due to lack of oxygen, I don't know.  All fisherman on salmon trips are struggling.  I have caught a few every trip but we should be catching lots.  I have mentioned my pink salmon record of 36 pinks 42 minutes many times, and those times are normally mid July.  Scratching for 5 or 6 fish is not normal.  I hope my all day groups that are starting to arrive do well like years past, don't want this to be the record worst year.  Here are couple pics of the Minnesota crew.  Halibut pic doesn't do justice as we were trying to be easy and release her fast.  We let a lot of dinners swim away because of halibut regulations.