Gage tells me that the halibut are biting pretty good by Hog Island. There were several caught around him and he and Nick gaffed a halibut for a kayaker. During slack tide there was a steady drumbeat of halibut tails in surrounding boats. That 61º to 68º water and the schools of anchovies must be having a positive effect. Outside there's a few salmon being caught, mostly out it 230-250 feet of water. There's a lot of krill (depth varies a bit) and that's where the salmon should be. It's not as good as the fishing further south but there is a fair chance of coming home with one. On the beach the surfperch are thick enough to snag 'em on striper gear, and I heard a rumor of a few stripers being caught on the beach yesterday. Not by me, I'm a perch snagger. The Dungeness season is ending not with a bang but more like a whimper. It is very, very slow for most of the crabbers.