Gage caught a ten pound salmon today. The fish came in a flurry of action with  six fish biting in about 20 minutes, five of them hooked long enough to see them and two big enough to keep. You'll notice that Gage properly masked his fish as soon as he brought it aboard. He was out in front of Bird in 220 feet of water. It sounds like a second, over thirty pound salmon was caught out of Bodega Bay today.  There were a number of boats hooking doubles of salmon today. Most of the action took place in a couple of little spurts of action. Generally, that time was when I wasn't on the water (I went out twice and got skunked twice. At least I'm consistent). For all you guys champing at the bit to go fishing, just know you're not missing the really, really good stuff yet. You can see it coming, though. I have become aware that Marin County leadership is very cognizant of your desire to go fishing and/or otherwise use the launch ramps. The problem is that with almost everywhere closed any open ramp will likely be mobbed on the first good weather/bite day. Remember Westside launch in 2012 when the wide open salmon bite was right around the corner? Imagine that during the age of the coronavirus. Whether or not everybody is practicing their masked social distancing, 500 curtain wranglers will get their panties bunched and overwhelm the 911 system. Heads will roll, and some of those rolling heads may be yours and mine. I heard that today the Marin Sheriff, who had mostly been warning people that they would get ticketed for using the Marconi launch, actually started ticketing vehicles, two tickets for vehicles with a boat trailer. I also heard that the Sheriff had issued over 700 parking tickets in the last month. Neither the Sheriff nor the Parks Department are very pleased with the situation. If you have an idea of how to get the ramps open without causing a Charley foxtrot, these folks would like to know :https://www.marincountyparks.org/about-us/contact-us    

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