Leslie Stokes made it onto our big fish bragging board today with this 20 pound lingcod. The fish was taken in 100 feet of water off of Elephant Rock and was caught with the aid of Captains Tom Cook and Joe Gantley aboard Brown's Old Boat.

Kevin and Kaitlin Fogal teamed up to catch limits of quality sized lingcod, bottom fish, and limits of jumbo Dungeness crab on Dennis Carter's boat, The Predator.

Lance Bain submitted this photo of the end of a good November day on the ocean. Dungeness crab don't get much bigger.

     The pier was still slow. Randy from Reno is here and I didn't get a final report but as of noon he had only taken four keepers, which is pretty slow for Randy. The bay was not fantastic but produced dinner or more for most of the boaters that ventured out today. A couple of boats of people had limits or near limits from the marker 5 area. Outside the bay the crabbing and rockfishing was good. Commercial Dungeness season opens on the 15th (pots start splashing on the 14th) and it sounds like there aren't many crab out deep so most of the effort will be concentrated in 40 fathoms or less (from shore to about 5 or 6 miles out). By and large, Dungies are what makes these guys' house payments, so they are going to be working pretty hard to get them while they can. The good times for crabbing, at least in the ocean, may not last past the 20th. Savor those crabs, Lance.