The longnose lancetfish are running in the surf! Or, at least one showed up there this morning. Today's got bludgeoned pretty well, but a good picture of another lancetfish from Dillon Beach is here. They are normally a deep water, offshore fish but my guess is that they occasionally they get carried inshore by the upwelling water. The spring winds have certainly provided us with a surplus of upwelling this year. No other fish of note landed here over the weekend. There were some crabs caught from the pier and bay, including a couple of limits of Dungeness from the pier on Saturday. The weather was pretty bad over the weekend and contributed to one fisherman out of Bodega Bay losing his boat but thankfully not his life. Here's the story in the Press Democrat: http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20130602/ARTICLES/130609936/0/search

UPDATE: Nick, the fisherman that grabbed the lancetfish, was kind enough to share with us in the shop. We grilled it. We now know why there is no commercial fishery for lancetfish. Thanks, Nick, but no more for us.