By now you have done your jetty trip, which I hope was a great success.

I just wanted to add a cautionary note about jetty fishing.

Watch the wave action before you proceed too far out on any jetty. Waves tend to build in size in cycles. As I recall from a lot of jetty hopping many years ago from Humboldt Bay to Westport, the 7th wave tends to be the big one. Watch at least a couple of cycles of waves, then stay several feet above the highest wave wash.

I've seen waves wash completely over the south jetty at Westport! The power of moving water is unbelievable.

Back my jetty hopping and rocky shoreline fishing days I always wore a life vest and carried my fishful of jigs in one of the pockets. If you are unwise and get washed over the jetty it will be a dangerous, bumpy experience and if you get knocked out by slamming against a rock, that life jacket may be your only hope.

Better yet, stay high and dry and only go as far out as it is absolutely safe.