Wednesday, November 27, 2024

       The crabbing has been mostly meh, still, but a few guys are doing well. Inside the bay is still mostly bad but a few guys have things figured out and done pretty well. Most of the rest have been doing well to get three or four keepers. So, same story, different day. There's a few pockets of finicky crab that can be yours if you do you right things in the right places, apparently. The guys I talked to weren't sharing particulars. Outside of Tomales Bay proper, the outer bay has been. well, okay, I guess. Some guys have done quite poorly there, but some of the happiest (and catchingest) guys I spoke to today were crabbing there. Having lots of nets and not waiting seemed like the recipe for better results. Move around. Repeat. I heard a report today from Ten Mile. There were a few crab caught and a few rings lost, hopefully to be recovered tomorrow morning. The crabbing was not good. There were more smiling people from the outer bay. Farther north, above Bodega Head, things were better but you can't just drop and catch. Drop gear and pull with little soak time. Move. Then move again. Then, probably move again. Almost reasonably low gas prices are your friend. Rockfish in shallow (where it is legal) has been unreasonably difficult, but there is actually a reason; after not really recovering from fishermen being forced into the shallows in the first part of this century numbers are down and will remain so until the heat is lifted for a reasonable amount of time. There are still fish to be caught but unless you're on the water every day it kind of sucks. 

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