The blue water is steadily making its way back closer to shore, with it currently being about 12 miles off the beach. The action is still slow for sailfish, with a per-boat average of only one a day. A few blue marlin are also being caught.

There are very few people fishing...only about 8 to 10 boats a day are leaving the municipal pier.

Light tackle and fly rod action has been excellent inshore on the hard fishing black skip jack tuna (barilettes) and chulas. Eighty-eight year old Commander, Ellis Skidmore (USN-retired) of Madras OR and Eric Skidmore of Bend OR, fished with Cheva and me on the panga, Dos Hermanos II. We would pull up on a school of the breaking skipjacks, with Eric on the bow with the fly rod, and Cheva casting a one-ounce crippled herring. Cheva would be bit instantly, and passed the rod off to Ellis. Eric was way behind his Dad's count of 30 caught and 22 brought to the boat, but both had a great time...Ed Kunze