Here's a shot from last year that hopefully gives us a taste of the year to come. I missed the salmon informational meeting but the posted documents (located here) indicate that there's 473,183 Sacramento River salmon in the ocean. With that many fish out there even I may be able to catch one. There may even be enough salmon for us and the orcas to share. There may be some closed dates and a larger minimum size early in the season to reduce pressure on the winter run chinook, but we're used to that by now. There may be some additional constraints to fishing due to low numbers of fish on the Klamath but all in all, things here look pretty good for this year. Next year?
    It would appear that there were enough swordfish caught in Southern California last year to alarm the California Fish and Game Commission. The Marine Resources Committee will be receiving an overview of emerging issues and discussing potential regulation changes for the recreational swordfish fishery on March 17. Maybe the regs will change for the better? Or maybe it will be over before it starts up here. I guess I'll wait to buy my flying gaff.
    I just spoke to two crabbers in the store. One caught eleven Dungeness today in the clam channel (maybe 300 yards from the launch area) and the other caught eight Dungeness using a snare right in front of the store.