I received this picture yesterday afternoon. It seems that there are, indeed, albacore out there. The trick to finding them is to see which way I go, then do the opposite. I went south. North had actual fish. John Brezina and Ed Parsons went north and caught nine fish yesterday. They even let a couple go. Today there's reports of fish off of the Bodega Canyon, as the water is sliding south. This information will help nobody, as the weather is turning to crap and it will be a while until the offshore is doable again. But look how happy Ed is. Well, good for you.

   Dammit.

    This weekend the crabbing was about the same but the crabbers were happier, on average. Perhaps the reports of bad crabbing tempered their expectations. Whatever it was, their were a couple of guys killing it inside the bay and a lot of people scraping by. Huh. Sounds like something else. Similar notes in the outer bay and points north with a slight edge towards killing it the farther north you went. But even some far northers got skunked, so run your gear early and often and move if it ain't happening.