Much better reports today, or at least much better attitudes. I'd like to think that the successful catching made for the good vibes. Not too many limits on crab or rockfish, but both of them happened for some people. The Russian River area (generalized...) has been consistently good since the opener. The Outer Bay has had some good crab but only in some very specific areas. We did better yesterday in 50 feet of water farther from Tomales Point, as closer to the point was the red crab homeland. Ten Mile has had mostly bad crabbing but a few guys have done well further south and recent reports may indicate that the crab are coming in. Inside Tomales Bay the crabbing hasn't been good but people are catching enough to mostly be happy. No inside-the-bay limits that I heard of, but most of the boats I talked to were pretty happy with the Dungeness they caught. Rockfish were generally slow but I heard that the smaller jigs were doing well. Gage and Ed Parsons, in separate boats in different spots, limited on mostly small (2 ounces or less) jigs. If you're interested, check out https://www.majorcraft-america.com/collections/jigpara-standard/products/jigpara-standard . We don't sell them (yet) but I, Gage, Ed Parsons and several others are converts. It seems that the fish will bite a tiny jig when they don't want to bite other stuff. I had more action in an hour of fishing with an 18 gram jig than I'd have in a day, normally. They work, if you can slow the boat's drift.
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