Successful surf fishing takes persistence. This is a photo of persistence. This was on Wednesday evening which was drizzly and cold and the water was calm. The lack of water movement probably led to the lack of fish bites. This was a 3 foot swell.

    Different day, different photo. A 4 to 5 foot swell stirred the bottom up a bit and had some perch near the shore in some of the holes on the North end of the beach. Gage claims over a dozen perch landed but these were the ones hooked too deep to return. The larger ones were a bit over 11 inches long. 

   The crabbing in the bay remains difficult but with some effort people are bringing in some decent Dungeness, not limits but some. It's still better in the outer bay when conditions allow for it. The PFMC are meeting right now to decide the possible April salmon season and the options to consider for the rest of the year's season. Those options should be known by the rest of us on Wednesday or Thursday. In a nutshell, they're predicting more salmon in the ocean than last year (same guess for Sac fish, many more for Klamath) but since the adult returns were pitifully small the fish are considered "overfished". Since the only tool the PFMC has to regulate salmon numbers is adjusting the fishing seasons and limits, expect a reduction in fishing opportunities in this area. There's some pretty serious economic and political pressure to allow a decent season, so we'll see.