Well I can't catch anything, so here's a picture of what some of the professional fishermen are catching by accident. Yes, I'm eating other people's discards, but I'll tell you what, that's some good tasting bycatch. These goofy-looking creatures are brown box crabs and they're closer related to king crab than Dungeness. Note that they only have eight legs (two of them clawed) instead of a Dungeness' ten. They taste good, too, especially to a guy that can't catch many Dungeness.

    Other people have been catching some Dungeness, although definitely not as many as earlier in the season. The pier is still pretty consistent in that there's a few Dungies taken every day. The area near the pier has been pretty good for kayakers and small boats, as well as the guys working the long surf rods with snares. There's still some Dungeness in other parts of the bay but with all the fresh water you really need to work the deeper holes. 

    Fishing has been slow except for some jacksmelt from the pier and surfperch off of the beach. There's herring in the bay to spawn which should mean that there's a few stripers back by Marshall but I haven't talked to anyone that's caught either a striper or a herring, so who knows? Guess I'll just eat box crab.