Ron Johnson collected a limit of salmon to 25 pounds today. The salmon weren't easy to come by for most (not Ron, he whacked 'em), nor, I have found out, were they very easy yesterday. I guess I had a skewed sense of reality. I guess a lot of boats did not catch them. In retrospect, it's not surprising. Our salmon had bellies so full of squid that they couldn't have eaten anything else. It is generally difficult to catch fish that aren't feeding. Today's body count for salmon from the Landing was seven fish that I heard of. Seven fish for twelve boats (One boat had two and another had three) ain't a good average. My suggestion: If the fish there aren't biting for you, maybe go looking elsewhere. Do the Keilman from last Monday. If the fish here don't like what you have to offer, maybe find the fish that do like it someplace else. Jesse Keilman found his friendly fish at Abbott's Lagoon in 70 feet of water. Before the blow the fish were thick (and so were the jellies at the end) off of Salmon Creek in 230 to 280 feet of water. There have been mobile schools of anchovies passing by in the deep (150 to 300 feet of water) with salmon in the mix more often that not, when they are found. Don't go all-in on a hand that isn't working for you. Fold and try another hand. Sometimes they just aren't your fish. 

    This is his fish. Doug didn't get me name but the photo says a lot. The story is that this gentleman caught this fish that he kept and one other striper that he released today. Judging by the shadow it was this morning which would put it on the incoming tide following a pretty good low. This photo was taken at the tent sites so he was likely at the Sand Point half of Dillon Beach fishing in the surf. The only other thing I can tell from this picture is that he's pretty happy. He should be. There haven't been many stripers in the surf this year. And now there's one less.

   On the halibut front, a few were caught today but they were very few. The good weather forecast for this week will hopefully allow the water to warm back up and the fish to loosen their jaws.