Today's heroes (well, most days, really) were Eddie Kim and Doug Bagley.  As the salmon bite is still dead (deader than yesterday, even) the two salmon they caught (to 25 pounds) was two more than anybody else here today. Eddie has skills and Doug has luck, so I'm guessing that when Eddie wasn't running gear he was likely rubbing Doug's belly for luck. Probably almost started a fire. Whatever works. Doug's belly will likely get a workout in the next week, as the local bite has died completely. These fish were caught about five miles apart, not on some hot spot. A few boats got some at the Russian River and a few more caught even more even further north. Will it last? My guess (and it is only that) is that these deep water fish will continue their northern journey. Everything seems to be about a month late, so if that's true, salmon should appear in the shallows in the next two weeks. Unfortunately there's no law that they have to run the beach, so we shallow water guys may be screwed, but hope shines eternal.

    The halibut bite was slightly less bad, as a few fish were caught back by Marshall. High boat that I spoke with (Miller Time) had three. Frank Green (my personal halibut hero) had two. Frank's boat should have had limits (it's Frank, for the love of God) so I'll declare halibut as "Slow".

   Here's the email I was expecting but not in a good way: "First time ever fishing Dillon Beach. Three keeper stripers in 30 min. Just north of the main beach in front of Kailua Way. Caught on tins during a bait run up the beach, right around the high slack tide last Sunday morning. I didn't have a scale or tape but the biggest was about 36". That's my size 13 shoe in the pictures for scale.

I'm out there frequently and haven't seen anyone casting for stripers before. Hopefully people know they're out there! My first West Coast strippers...

Chris" So there you go. It's that easy. Stripers are just washing up on the beach because nobody is fishing for them. Or...... Your timing was impeccable. For over three years the stripers have been mostly vacant. Now they're here. Live it up while you can.