I fished the Canal yesterday but avoided the zone. Caught a couple elsewhere on flies. but what was interesting was a three fishermen using bobbers and herring c atching a lot of fish compared to the rest of the folks I saw. While the fish I saw caught weren't bright, they were in pretty good shape for southern Canal chum.

I'm hoping there are more fish headed that way. The fish I caught were pretty sad-- couldn't get the ones in better shape to bite. Last week I got into some fish in good condition in the mid-Canal region, and the one I kept was in excellent condition. Let's hope all the 800,000 predicted for the Canal haven't shown up yet.