Wind has been the situation here. Shore-based fishing and snaring has continued with limited success (snaring success, at least. Perch? Stripers? Not so much) There's been some small schools of bait moving into the bay, judging by the pelicans diving across from the Boathouse on the incoming tide this week. That might be an indicator of where the stripers went. The ocean water temperature has been running between 48º and 50º, so we have upwelling a go go.  A few guys have got out and bounced around outside and even caught a few salmon, but it's not as good here as it is farther South. The fish are coming, still. Hunter Smith sent in a report last Thursday, saying, "Picked up a 10 lbr yesterday at noon in 200’ and 100’ on the wire Apex off Tomales point" That is pretty much the general are where most of the few salmon are being caught. The halibut bite in the bay piddled out. The water in the back is plenty warm enough for biting fish but I've only heard of a few lonely shorties. Well, it can only get better. 

   All this wind has kind of got me down, so when Eddie Kim offered me a spot on the Polaris Supreme to go bluefin fishing with him this week I jumped for it. The bite is crazy in San Diego right now. I left the house at 4:00 this morning to get on the boat this afternoon, but got a call from Mr. Kim at 9:30, just as I was getting in sight of the Grapevine, that the trip was cancelled due to weather. That's right, it's blowing so hard here that some of it is spilling over into the rest of the state. I am mostly disappointed but a little bit of me is thinking that if it sucks here, it should suck everywhere. And I guess today, it does.