i was fishing wards cove last weekend. just a little south of long beach (jordans store is across from long beach). i havent had much luck fishing the big shoal for salmon, lots of lakers on and around it. i usually fish the drop off just in front of nathans but the last 2 weeks seem to be a little slow there. i seen charlie from the marina fishing there a few weeks back and decided to try it, from land it goes from 20 feet to 80 feet back to about 50 feet and then gets deep. seems that both sides of the 50 feet section hold fish. we fished the shalower side this weekend but saw most boats on the other side.