Mostly good weather here over the last week with only a couple of days you couldn't (breaking bar) or wouldn't want (windy) to head out to the ocean. The crabbing situation remains about the same; Ten Mile very good, Outer Bay good depending on location, and inside Tomales Bay good to bad depending on who you ask. Some insiders limited out pretty easily and some had a hard time catching a couple of reds. By and large, almost everybody had crab to eat but most would have liked more. No word on when traps will open yet but the state testing of crab for domoic acid has finally come up entirely clean now, so if you like the "butter", I guess you can "enjoy" it. 

    Rockfishing has been a bit slow near the mouth of Tomales Bay but definitely better when to get away from where everybody else has been fishing. Gage and I took a couple of buddies out for rockfish on Thanksgiving morning and we caught 40 rockfish and 5 lings to 15 pounds. We only dropped on schools of fish instead of blind drifting and probably spent as much time looking for schools as we did fishing them, but when they were decent fish (w e also stopped over a couple of schools of tiny ones) they were on the hook as soon we got to the bottom. Small jigs and shrimp flies for the rockfish and 8" swimbaits for the lings. 

   My lack of reports (and the boring ones I make when I do write something) correctly inspired Branden Mendoza to send over this report:

   "Hey willy late report from Friday. Went down to 10 mile for 2 limits of crab and a few rockfish and 2 lings. Proceed to make crab and salmon raviolis on Saturday was a great weekend." That looks and sounds spectacular. If your goal was to make me jealous, you succeeded.