No salmon to report this week. There were a few rockfish and surfperch caught (not by the same people) and a very few Dungeness. Lots of shiner perch for bait on the pier (at the bottom of the tide, at least) and even a couple of sardines caught, but no halibut landed yet. The clams took a beating in the last few days. A gentleman from Mill Valley came on Sunday to go try his luck for salmon and ended up leaving with a limit of clams. He didn't actually dig for them. He just picked them up off of the grass by the turns in the road. Fish and Wildlife officers were checking cars at the entry gate and apparently somebody called their buddy, who panicked and dumped his extra clams within sight of the salmon fisherman. It's not as good as catching fish, but it's better to return home with dinner.
   Fish and Wildlife officers were all over today, too, and a lot of people got checked, both on the water, on the mudflats, on the shore, and in their cars. They had checkpoints up north checking the abbers and boats and trucks down here checking the clammers and abbers. Many moonsnails were returned to the bay, but the local fire departments and soup kitchens are going to be eating a lot of clam chowder. A group got ticketed on Monday that had just paid off their $3000 in fines from a previous ticket. I guess they needed to sell a lot more clams to pay off the debt. I guess that didn't work out.