Tasquah, No, you get arrested if you keep the grunion. Catch and release only (quickly). Hands only (you can't even use a net). Silver fish in foamy surf under a bright moon are hard to see in the first place. Once people start splattering around there's as much water in the air as in the tide and the challenge level creeps upward. There is a way of catching fish in a stream by tickling them. Basically you stand there in the water, not moving, except for your upturned, gently wriggling, fingers. Trout will swim into those fingers and settle down. As soon as a trout is relaxed, and you've checked his length against the memory of your frying pan, grab. I taught a hyperkinetic 10-year-old how to do this, thinking that it would occupy him for 38 seconds. Several minutes later he came splashing up with a nice brown trout in his hands. That trout got off lightly, but probably told fish stories all the way downstream about the ferocity of those fingers and the number of small boys he had to evade. Carolly