These folks are happy because they caught rockfish and crab and they aren't cleaning their pile of critters, yet. In fact, about the only smiling fishermen today were the ones that went outside for rockfish. The Outer bay even had some pretty decent end-of-season Dungeness. The Tomales Bay fishermen and crabbers didn't do as well. Crabbing for reds was pretty good but inner bay Dungies were few and far between. And halibut? A local legend (in my mind, at least) in bay halibut fishing caught one today and was high boat until one more was caught this evening, bringing the Lawson's Landing daily halibut total to two. I'm not sure what the descriptive word is for a total of two but I'm pretty sure it ain't "good". Most of the seemingly appropriate words also describe unfortunate bodily functions. So, trying to stay positive here, let's just agree that the halibut fishing can only get better. And thank goodness for rockcod.