Most folks are interested in crab now, Dungeness in particular. From the shore, Dungies have been okay at best. Good for them, I guess, but not so much for fishermen. Even in this wind, and there's been a lot of it, crabbers, shore and boat, have done barely okay. There are crab to be caught, but not really enough to go around in big numbers. But catching is good. Really good when it's you that's catching.

    There's been a few surfperch bites, mostly by the ospreys that don't need a good bite close to shore, just fish close to the surface, but a few surf fishermen have done well. A few. It ain't good, but there's fish in the surf if you're lucky and good. 

    So I heard this evening that a guy (a former tractor repair guy..) that had engine problems here on Friday also had a halibut to clean when he made his way back in. "Only one", as they say, but one fish in a bay that doesn't have the numbers that San Francisco has is pretty good. We are on par here for a lesser but still interesting season on the halibut season. We aren't San Francisco Bay, and we're generally pretty happy about that, except for when they have a better halibut bite. Dammit. Not happy now, but soon I will be. I have heard rumors of halibut in the ocean biting in 53º water. It seems like crap, but I was given a fillet, and it was good, so it may be true. It tasted real. And of curry. May more that I have caught follow.