"Wow! The halibut went back on the bite!", is what everyone fishing this weekend hoped I'd be reporting today. Instead, I can say that it seems the halibut bite may be over. Having said that, I look forward to the halibut reports coming in over the next few weeks in order to make me wrong. I shall revel in my incorrectness. Over this weekend the only catching in the bay was of thresher sharks and silver salmon. Good fun, but not the halibut we were looking for. The threshers and salmon were caught near Pelican Point, but targeting coho is probably not a good idea, legally. Officially, don't do it. But if you're fishing in the bay in October or November, don't keep the salmon.  Wrong kind, even if salmon was open.

    Saturday, Dungeness opens here. No traps, as expected and as has happened in recent memory. Same as it ever was...  The commercial guys and the trap guys will have their chance, probably in late December or January, but for the moment the sporties with hoops should live it up. Changes are in the works for next season. Changes are rarely good. And they won't be.