For those playing along at home, it appears that the three options for this year's salmon season are pretty well dialed in. They may still change but I'm told it shouldn't be too drastic. The options for the Bodega/San Francisco area are all basically that it salmon opens on April 11 and closes around October 31. There may be a closure between May 1 and May 15 and the season will start with a 24" minimum and change to a 20" minimum by or before July 1. These options are far better than one of the earlier options that had us only fishing in July.
There's a pretty short list of things you don't want to find in your crab pot. It sounds like a commercial crabber pulled a pot off of Ten Mile Beach last week and found a human femur in the trap. If anyone has an idea about to whom it may have belonged I'm sure the Marin County Sheriff' would be interested. No information was provided as to its effectiveness as an attractant.
Officially I still think it's too early for halibut on Tomales Bay but a couple of whispered stories suggest that there may actually be a few keepers coming over the rail way in the back. Without specific knowledge on my part I would suggest going very shallow. Six feet would not be too shallow but stirring up mud with your propwash would be.
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"It sounds like a commercial crabber pulled a pot off of Ten Mile Beach last week and found a human femur in the trap'. It seems a bit strange that a human femur bone, with or without flesh, would get into a trap. Something is fishy or crabby about that. I wonder if Guido or Carmine visited the area. Now, if one could find the concrete shoes the leg femur was attached
that would be a fine. Just saying.
While not denying the Guido factor, currents can push stuff inside pots. It used to be fairly common to get lumps of coal from shipwrecks (or Santa, you know who you are) in crab pots near Tomales Point. Somebody actually caught a coal chunk a few years ago. So while I believe it's possible for current to do it, other options are not off the table.
A femur? That's not humerus at all.
If you're trying to get a leg up on me you're incorrectly armed.
My intent was just to add an appendage to your story, without going to extremities.
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Thank you. The appreciation of the effort is appreciated on my part. But, dude, Harvest Time declared pun war. You gotta pun.
I think that your argument is ossified. Intent is never as important as actual legwork. You should give up and take a knee.
No time for temporizing when folks are autotomizing!
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It Has been oddly quite...
You win. I had to look that up.
If that is the criterion then I don't win either
Hopefully that femur belongs to one of those slimy crap pot pirates
I once read that shoes, especially sneakers, are buoyant and so will pull feet off a dead body, which is why we occasionally get feet washing up on beaches. But how on earth does a frickin femur get into a crab trap???
Could it be some particularly bizarre way to be buried at sea?
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Well if I was the one who would burry someone at sea in a crab pot. I would definitely be the one who wouldn't leave a rope on it to get pulled...
I am aware though that most people who would do such a thing are not always the most intelligent humans, so leaving a rope to pull up the evidence may not cross there minds.
Plus if they were under the influence while doing these things, that can make you even less intelligent at times.
Regarding ~ unknown / crab pot pirate / That's exactly what I was thinking! If they did a DNA analysis he wouldn't have a leg to stand on!
Marin county sheriff's office still on the first leg of the investigation
The good news is that bone didn't come off my boat. We had a couple of close calls last year. Looking forward to this salmon season. They've been catching the Halibut on Berkeley's flats for a couple of weeks. Going to be there in April to see what's up with the halibut.
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