Gage went out to the beach today and after his first cast he sent this picture and comment to me: "Hand pictures are so back." First cast, nice fish. And then an hour and a half of no bites went by. Such is fishing. Wide open to closed tight in 60 seconds. You gotta love it. The ospreys were slaying them all day, but ospreys aren't tied to the beach like we are. Gage caught this right at high tide, when (theoretically) the fish are concentrated against the waterline as the rising tide pushes the sand crabs up the beach and the slow ones get eaten.  From his photo, it looks like Gage was closer to Sand Point than mid-beach, in case you are looking to catch a fish. There may be more farther north, but I have had no reports, so...? 

    Crabbing, as usual, is bad, but there's always a few around, just not as many as anyone crabbing would like. There's been a few caught from shore by snarers and a few more from boats but there's nobody bragging. Actually, it's kind of nice. But the crab should be coming in by the middle of next month, sometime after traps are shut down. Maybe we'll get some bragging in here then.