Things were pretty good this week, for salmon fishermen at least. Halibut? Not so much. Stripers? If you're looking for white meat, may I suggest rockfish? Even the rockfish had a slow day in the shallows, but deeper they were the only consistent catch. Salmon was best further northwest, with the best close bite up near "the fence," the south end of the "No Fishing" MPA. There's been salmon caught in 200'+ of water almost everywhere but only a few here and there except for that more consistent "fence" bite.

    The Coastodian sent in a report about Miller Park and salmon: "Hi Willy,

The boats, boom, trucks etc at miller park are there just in case things go south during an attempt to pull the challenger towards shore in order to chop it up.

They have pulled on it with a 100 tons of force and only budged it a few feet.

They have several hundred gallons of oily water in 1-2 fuel tanks to pump out and a couple other tanks with possibly as many as 3500 gallons of fuel or fuely water in them. They are not guaranteed to get access to those mystery tanks.

So the crew at miller is there just in case.

That is what I learned on a call yesterday while plowing the water off the head in 270’, eventually finding this nice salmon.

Lots of cool whale action in close to the head, tall spouts visible from a long way off." Thanks for the info and nice fish.

    Gage and I got out yesterday morning for a little bit before the wind hit and ocean turned from nervous to downright scary. We got a little less than two hours of fishing time in at 16 and 7 for two fish landed and one more lost. The weeds were appalling there on Thursday and after ten minutes of trolling through them Gage blew up and said we had to leave. I caved, and as he started to reel up one line the other line went off with as fish. "Dammit!" said Gage, "Now we have to stay." And we did, until we were thrown out.  There's fish out there but the wind will likely shake things up. Hopefully some of that shaking will bring a few fish to the shallows.