These folks were camping here at this time last year and saw quite a few stripers get caught off of Sand Point during their stay. They planned on bringing fishing gear this rime to go get them. Then they left it at home. Saturday morning they bought a pair of $50 rod and reel combos and a couple Kastmasters and few hours later returned with these fish. As I recall, the striper weighed 9 pounds and the halibut went 11.5 pounds. By 4:00 PM it was shoulder-to-shoulder at Sand Point, but as far as I know these were the only fish caught there all day. Damn nice fish, and way to make everybody else jealous. A halibut from the shore is a bucket list fish for me....

      ...but not for Cannon Brunkhorst. Not anymore. Cannon thought it would be a good idea to tie a halibut rig baited with a frozen anchovy to his crab snare. It worked for a 15 pound flatty right in front of the store. Perfect location, because I get the impression that Cannon likes a good audience. Gage was wicked jealous that a ten-year-old thought of it first. Nice work, Cannon,. Gage hears your footsteps.

   Another report from Saturday: "Hey Willie,

In the off chance that the wind lays down enough to fish the ocean before the end of June, I submit this report with the hope that it provides useful information for those that may venture out.  We celebrated Father's Day a day early because that is what Ma Nature said we should do and fished for crab and sand dabs north of Bodega.  My 88 year old dad what chief crab measurer while my son and his fiancé pulled the hoops and pitched shorts and females.  We pulled 4 limits of crab with a handful of truly jumbos mixed in in 4.5 hours of effort with 7 hoops.  The crabs were in 60 feet of water, not 65 or 80' (we tried).  While letting the hoops soak we ran out to 95' and dropped in for sanddabs.  Last month they were not there, today they were.  We ended up with 96 of the little buggers.

For Father's Day we will sleep in, finish cleaning up and listen to the wind blow.

Wishing you and all the other fishing dads out there a happy Father's Day.  You have raised one hell of a fisherman.  I can only imagine how good he will be when he reaches our age.

Regards,

Brad Stompe

Grady 228 battleship grey, Mary Frances" Nice work, Team Stompe. 40 Dungeness in mid-June sounds pretty darned good, and with the current counts being especially low on average, 4 limits is damned good. And a bunch of sand dabs on top sounds even better. Thanks for the info.

     As stated, the crabbing is mostly bad, although a few are being caught by boaters and snarers inside the bay.