Set off in the marine kayak about 1 hour past full tide, on the ebb, in the morning. An easy paddle to the point. The ebbing tidal rip runs about 60 yard off the point, heading south to cherry point, approx. 4 knots. The rip is characterized by eddies along both the shore edge and the seaward edge. The depth at the inner edge approx 60 feet. Four decent kelp beds yield greenling and sculpin varieties, approx 10-14 inches long, and right eyed flatfish up to about 10 inches. A fellow kayaker 100 yards away (SSW of our position) caught a 3 foot Halibut in 67 feet of water, just inside the tidal rip.

After lunch, we anchored off the ocean edge of the rip, depth about 70 feet. The other half caught 2 dogfish, each slightly over 3 feet, immature males. I caught 1 of same. We caught 3 starry flounder, all between 14 and 18 inches. We were jigging off the bottom with 3 oz leadheads with chartreuse scampis and strips of horse clam siphon and foot. Attached to the barbless leadhead via a palomar knot was a 2 foot leader, 12 lb test, with an octopus circle hook with the barb mashed and more clam bait. The flatfish would hit that, the dogfish and the danged Dungeness crab and the sculpin/greenling types went for the scampi.

The danged Dungeness crab ate several of my favorite scampis!

We headed in about 6 pm. We kept 3 starry flounder and three decent sculpin or greenling-- huge heads, rapidly narrowing bodies, sculpin type fins with soft top fins, deep grreen/brown/black? and SLIMY. But they taste good :-).
We released-- over 48 right eyed flatfish of all types, three dogfish, 29 legal sized Dungeness (none smaller than 6 inches, the largest over 7.5 inches, 3/4 female, 1/4 male in soft shell condition). The flowing rip, when it turns to come north to Semiahmoo spit, drayton harbor and beyond, is quite a lot choppier than the ebb rip going south. I would estimate the speed at 5 knots or better. We were getting hits every time we dropped the hooks while anchored in it just north of point whitehorn.

All in all an excellent location, BUT-- the danged CRABS will eat all your clam bait AND the scampi! We tried synthetic baits and worms, but nothing works like a good horse clam. We keep them frozen for year round use.

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