The obligatory hand picture. Gage says the surfperch were biting like mad Thursday. Today, not so much, but Thursday they were even hitting small swimbaits. The time is right for some stripers in the surf but as of yet it is perch only. There are a few anchovies in the bay, finally, as well as at least one thresher shark and a small gray whale. The thresher was kind enough to point out the anchovies by jumping in the same place a dozen times. Eventually even I get the message. Gage and I ended up with three halibut on the troll by Inverness.
    When will Lawson's Landing (and the rest of coastal Marin) open? That is a damn fine question. The current closure has no end date. As I understand it, industry representatives are consulting with each other to come up with safe operational methodologies to enable the reopening of different sectors. Put another way, there's a staring match between Sonoma and Marin Counties to see who can hold out longer. My money is on Marin. From some reports it sounds like Sonoma may blink first. Or, perhaps both counties are waiting for the inevitable tsunami of people headed for the coast on a hundred degree day to pour over the barriers so that they can say, "See, I knew this would happen! People can't be trusted! Double secret probation on the coast!" Yes, people are dying. But the vast, vast majority of them are over 65 and/or have additional comorbidities. Those people should be quarantined. For the record, that includes my wife (she isn't over 65, and don't say I said she was). Healthy people have died from the Covid-19, but now we're talking about the numbers of people that die from traffic accidents. That's why we all stopped driving cars, right? Wait, we didn't? We did allow people to keep driving with safety gear. Seat belts and air bags? Meet face masks and 6 foot spacing.
     There was a lovely article in The New York Times a few weeks ago showing the recent increased number of deaths compared to previous years and the point of the article was that there were more people dying from Covid-19 that are being recorded. The jackass that wrote the article apparently didn't think about the people that died from not going to the hospital due to Covid fear, or people that relapsed and drank themselves to death from no AA meetings, or people killed by their significant others because they've been locked in together too long, or suicides from failed businesses or stress, or any of a thousand crappy things I can't think of but were caused by the "cure." I'm not suggesting that we all strip naked and run backwards through a hot dog factory (I would never suggest that), only that we remove our heads from our lower gastrointestinal tracts and all go back to work. Life has risks. And I'm hoping to take a few of those in the coming weeks (besides the risks of going to three grocery stores just to get most of the things on my list).