Okay, it's another photo of lights, but this is the first good photo. "Hello Willy,

I got a pretty good picture of the boats last night with my new iPhone. In the almost 20 years that we have had our house, this is the first time I’ve ever seen this grouping of boats at night. It was pretty awesome.

Lee W." It is distinctly possible that the fish are here. Or, at least, over there. I did hear a report from a rockfisherman that the bait in 200 feet of water off of Abbott's Lagoon was "thicker than he'd ever seen it." Whether there's any salmon in it is always another question, but.... That's a lot closer than 300 feet of water. And if it sucks, hey, there's rockfish right there.

   I did get one positive Tomales Bay report: "Morning Willie, out on the bay yesterday with good friends from Petaluma Phil Becklund and boat owner Bruce Schneider. Landed 3 fat halibut just South of hog. All on live smelt at the turn of high tide. Maybe there is a push of new fish or we were just in the right place at the right time. I’m hoping more fish are coming!

Steve Smith"  So, there's fish. Well, three less fish. It could be that there's too much food outside the bay and the fish have no good reason to come in. Someday the wind will blow again (it always does) and it could chase in enough fish of both kinds to make things easy again. Or, not. We learn more when the fishing sucks.