First off, the Bodega Bay Buoy is back, baby! Our forecasts may get a bit more accuracy, as data on what actually happened in a place can help "true up" the models. Currently, that data is "wind." I think ma nature is trying to spin that little whirlygig right off that poor yellow buoy. There's a Gale Warning for tomorrow into Tuesday AM, so I guess we'll see how tough that little spinny thing is. 

   There's a few salmon out there. Not a lot, not like they're catching south of here, but some. Most of the few I've heard about were caught off of Bird Rock-ish in 190 to 220 feet of water. There was at least one caught just outside the jaws of Bodega Harbor yesterday. Is the fishing good enough to risk a beating from the wind and water for a chance at a fish burning $6 gas? Probably not yet, but fishing a mile or so from port in the lee of the head for maybe one fish seems better than running miles southeast to fish with a northwest wind on the rise, also with maybe a fish. But that's just me. 

   

   Look who dropped by for a few days. The Eddie Kim caught a few limits of Dungeness inside the bay, a few limits of rockfish in the ocean, and a few halibut inside the bay. Where did he catch the halibut, you ask? "I've never trolled so shallow for halibut before" was all the info I got, besides this photo. Now, to be fair, he'd never trolled for halibut before, but I think he may have been running out of bay when he caught this fish. It doesn't sound as good here as it does in SF, but it is warming and the fish are coming. There have been small groups of pelicans working on incoming schools of bait across from the Boathouse for the last two days, so things may be starting sooner than expected. I am officially okay with that.