Here's report from 4/15: "Took my son to the landing for the first time for some crab snaring and fishing. Lots of people there for a weekday. Most people that came early in the morning had 3-5 keepers with lots of shakers. We stayed from 930am-200pm and wound up with 2 keepers, 2 shakers (for crabs), and catching a smelt on some shrimp. Crabbing seemed to pick up on the incoming tide. We will be back for more crab snaring!

-Mike Ergo"  The snarers have been doing pretty well this week. I actually had a legal sized female Dungeness crawl ashore at my feet on the tip of Tomales Point on Thursday evening. That would seem to indicate a reasonable number of crab. Snarers today were catching a range of zero to limits with most catches being much closer to zero than ten. Still, quite a few caught a couple or more. I'm guessing that few crab are migrating into the bay.

    Branden Mendoza sent in this report from today: "Hey Willy. Ocean was pretty rough today headed out at about 9am. Started at bird got 1 vermilion. Decided to make a run to elephant for a few more rockfish and 1 nice ling. Over all not a bad day considering the conditions" The weather was not very good today but if you didn't mind some salt spray and a beating the fish were there, as Branden noted. Rockfish continues to be the best way to have a seafood dinner here but I heard a story today of a few missed halibut bites near Hog, so that could start sooner than next month. Maybe not a lot sooner, but a little bit.