Josh Feagin caught this 16 pound striper in the surf yesterday. He was using a Kastmaster pretty close to Sand Point.

   Lorca Rossman sent in this report yesterday :"Decided to give it a try today and was rewarded with my first October salmon.  Fished from bird to Elephant for limits of jellies as well as 18 and 24lb salmon.  Fish came on herring near the bottom in dark brown water, 90 and 60'.  Few radio fish, scattered in the same general area." I don't know how many jellies are in a limit but I'm pretty sure it's more than I want to catch. It's nice to see salmon tails sticking out of the box in October. Well done, sir.

     Swampy fished three days this week and sent over this report: "Afternoon Willy,

Halibut fishing has slowed a bit down there. Managed one a day till yesterday when we boated 3 to 15 #s. Bait was easy near pelican and we even caught a handful of mackerel. While fishing near 5 Brian (who caught and released a good silver Sunday)  pointed out a Bald Eagle chasing a seagull off of Toms point. I don’t think I have ever seen one down there. For the record it got away minus a couple feathers. Also saw a sunfish in the bay, kinda neat.

Till next time, Swampy"  I'm glad to see you found a flat fish without your name it on it. There were some other halibut caught in the bay, a few around Hog but most of the "action" was nearer the mouth of the bay. Nobody knocked 'em dead but most people had a fish in the boat. On the Dungeness crab front the domoic acid testing has checked about half the ports and so far all tests have come back clean except for one crab off of Duxbury and even he wasn't too filthy (46ppm with a warning level of 30ppm). We have gotten to go crabbing before with dirtier tests, so it looks like maybe the DA won't be the reason we don't get to go crabbing. I'm sure someone can find a different reason.