Nick Donnelly reports: "Saturday and Sunday were a grind with the south wind and poor drift conditions. scratched a limit one day and only a single fish the other day and a bunch of ray and shark and couple more missed hookups, all on Bigfoot jigs. only action I got on lives was a stolen chovie that the hook never stuck" Unsurprisingly, the guy that caught fish ain't wrong. The live bait action has been tough. Dead bait? Tougher. But the jigs have worked? Why? I haven't a clue, but what I do know is that why doesn't  matter if it works. Nice job Nick. Them fish don't hook themselves.

   The Coastodian sent over this picture. There's some stripers around, it seems. For the record, Richard was fine with me posting this but Gage said no. So I can't say where, but it was close and apparently painful. Nice frickin' fish, though.

   Speaking of striper fishing, here's a picture of Cameron and I hooked up on a double. I hooked a fish and he casted on my hookup and got his own fish. So  most importantly, mine was first. He still caught more than me.

  So. Steve Cato has been trying hard this season. He tried hard last season, too, and he caught a few, but this season the fish have been tough. And, to be fair, they have been tough for everyone. A couple of years of no salmon lay hard on every other fish. But today, tough be damned. He took Cameron out to the bar (like a stray dog; If you feed him you can't get rid of him) and they caught fish. I believe the total was two stripers and three halibut. The pictured one went 21 pounds. All fish on Redrum and Bigfoot jigs. Live bait entertained but did not hook a halibut. What kind  of world is it that fish bite junk faster than real stuff?

        The Chris Brown hasn't been out to visit since Prime Time last year. It has now been scientifically proved that when he arrives to fish, it is go time. All of the pictured fish were caught on Bigfoot Jigs. They're biting. You may have heard Gage's whoops and hollers this evening. I sure did while I was fishless. Doryon and I couldn't buy a bite until Chris and Gage left with their limits. Then we started catching. Limits all the way around, but some of us started sooner and finished earlier. It doesn't matter, as the feeling of a fish biting a jig is special on its own. I highly recommend it. They're biting. Best time to get bit, it seems.