I won't copy and paste the press release, but just know that CDFW has info suggesting that they shouldn't open traps for sportsmen or any commercial fishing at all. That's the suggestion. Too many whales, it seems. While an official decision has yet to be announced, I think it's safe to say that you can leave your traps wherever they they are. Hoop, there it is. For now.

   Inside Tomales Bay the catch has dropped off, partly from a huge number of crabbers working a small area, and partly from serious tides causing fast currents. The tides are fading this week, so catches should start sucking less. Probably less gear dragged out of the bay, too. Today's crabbers didn't limit but caught anywhere from 5 to 25 Dungeness per boat. Not bad, but numbers from the outer bay and Ten Mile have been better yet, when you can get there.

  Because shallow water rockfish is closed there really isn't much successful fishing to report on. No tuna reports for a couple of days has people thinking that the tuna have left. While I'd like to say that's true and minimize the amount of boats I have to dodge while tuna trolling, I don't think it's over yet. If the whales are still here, it's because the anchovies are still here. And if the anchovies are still here, probably the bluefin are, too. The bluefin are here to party, and that party is in the form of food. Anchovies being bluefin food, well, nobody's leaving yet.