What's new, you ask? Not much, unless you want to count rain in California as a new thing. It isn't. Rain is like everything else in Cali: all or nothing. This year we're going for All. Hopefully this manna from heaven isn't too late for the baby salmon. Only the 2026 salmon regulations will tell.

     Crab? Same as it's been. Not good, but not as bad as it gets. Outer bay is not bad but very few jumbos; with the amount of commercial pots in the bay it should surprise nobody that the crab are running around 6 1/8" peak size. Not huge but pretty good. 10 6" crab is still a pretty good day. The shore snarers would be pretty excited to have a day like that. Snaring has been slow but most fishermen have been getting a few. Bay crabbers from boats have mostly mirrored the snarers as far as the guys that I talked to. There's probably spots with more crab but the guys I talked to weren't crabbing in those spots. 

    Fishing has been bad, except for the guy that caught a striper off of the beach last weekend. He did well. The striper was probably about 10 pounds and looked like it may have been recently in fresh water. The poor fish probably got washed out of wherever it had been hiding from all these storms. Hopefully the rest of them got washed out as well and stay out, as we need other alternatives this year. Halibut, both California and Pacific, rockfish, and stripers had better look out this year. We're coming for you.