A few years ago I read a report from the Bodega Marine Lab that said that global warming/climate change was going to make the wind blow more and harder here and that wind would supercharge the upwelling. Imagine my disappointment to find out that the exotics that would show up from warming would be Pacific halibut. Check out the water temp over the last five days at the Bodega Buoy (46013):

    The water temp has been unable to hit 49º. 48º is kind of a stretch. Terrafin.com shows a patch of water off of the Head that's 44º. That's a lot of upwelling. It's so much that we may see a deepwater die-off of crabs and other slow-moving creatures. It happens off of Oregon and Washington when they get a lot of deep, oxygen-poor (but mineral-rich!) water sloshing over the continental shelf. This water slides South and mixes with the offshore warm water and the Southern California bight's nearshore warm water and makes for lots of feed for their critters. It's possible that our extra wind has helped create the extra bluefin that SoCal is seeing. I'm glad something good is coming from it somewhere, because here it sssssuuuuccckkkksssss. 

    There were a few fish caught in the last few days. One boat got out across the bar on Saturday and ended up fishing in the outer bay for salmon. And caught one! That's not the only salmon to come from there in the last month or two but it probably shouldn't be your first choice of location. A mid-week weather break may find Gage fishing out in 200 feet of water off of Bird for salmon. That should be statistically better odds for catching, but often the fish don't know their stats. There were also a few halibut caught in the bay this weekend, mostly near Hog Island but a few near Marshall, as well. The halibut fishing is still far from good but the interior bay water is warming and a few schools of baitfish are moving into the bay, probably to warm up. Halibut catching can only get better.