So I'm sitting here at home, lonely, with almost all my fishing connections gone. Eddie Kim has fallen into the long range crowd (The halibut and salmon are safe for now but bluefin are kinda screwed. San Diego has him now). I missed Swampy's week here. Even Mike Mack took a break. So the report is, not much is happening. There's a few halibut to be caught (more than if Eddie or Swampy were here) but not too many. Salmon exist out deep but only barely, with most catches being next year's fish and not many of them. There's stories of salmon in the Outer Bay but bedtime stories are generally for smaller people than those that read this blog. Things are slooooww. Dungeness for sport will open on schedule, it appears, for one last time this year on November 7. Next year, ? My suggestion? Get 'em while you can this year, 'cause next year's gonna suck. The whales are still here and next year we, like the commercials, operate on their schedule, not ours. Good times. 

   

     Here's a picture sent to me from Tom Carter on Sunday at 8:00 AM: "This 30 inch fat striper was just pulled out of the surf and caught on live blood worms," This is not the only striper caught on Dillon Beach this past week. There are a few (very few) nice stripers cruising the beach this fall.