Not too much to report, as you may have guessed. Crabbing in the ocean has been tough. There's a few in the outer bay but they need to be worked for. Out deeper is even slower. Hopefully the commercial guys caught enough at the start to pay their bills because now it sounds like a good day barely pays for fuel and bait. From the shore the snares are still accounting for a few Dungeness. FYI, I'm seeing more "Crab Hawks", or folding castable nets, getting used and I'm pretty sure that they're not legal in California. I haven't heard of anyone getting ticketed for using one but I doubt that anyonr reading this wants to be the first.
    I heard that the hatcheries got all the salmon they needed and lots of jacks showed up but I haven't heard any numbers of wild salmon returns. There will probably be an ocean salmon season, maybe. If there is, it looks like it should be pretty good since some of the commercial crabbers have seen sea lions eating salmon out in 40 fathoms (240 feet). There's lots of anchovies out there, too.
   I heard about a herring spawn in Tomales bay last weekend and a fresh school of herring pushed into the bay yesterday. I would think that there'd be few stripers chasing them but I haven't heard of ant caught except for a couple in the surf. Gage finally went surf fishing and managed a couple of barred perch at low tide. "The only structure to fish is at low tide," said the man.