The crabbing is still slow but the effort continues. We are currently at peak current as we just passed the full moon. That equates to tough times inside the bay. A (very) few people have done well inside the bay this week with a few boats catching as many as thirty keeper Dungeness in a day. Most people have caught much, much less. The current didn't help in the catching the last part of this week. Big current is bad for crab, and big current is what we had. Big current almost killed another person in a small boat yesterday, as his inflatable with an electric trolling motor was unable to beat the outgoing current and he got sucked out into the breakers and flipped over. A super good guy and his family were out crabbing and as they returned to pull the boat out they were hailed by people on the beach to alert them to a person in trouble in vaguely defined terms. They ran off and thankfully found the dude. He was in the water and wearing hip waders, which made him hard to get out out of the water and into the boat. They did it though, got him in by just sheer badassness. They really wanted to save him, and they did. Life jacket, no. Probably don't be that guy. He may not have known, but now you do. Life jackets may not save your life but they sure won't hurt. The boat was recovered today and returned to its owner. The current is bad, but should be slowing as the moon shrivels, for a bit. 

   The rockfish was slow early in the week, when you could get there, but as the weekend approached the window for going out the bay closed as the weather shut it down. There may be opportunities in the next couple of days but then after that, well, surf's up! For those of us looking to go offshore, or even out of the bay, well, bummer. It appears that we may get two to eight inches of rain in the next ten days. That should make the steelhead happy. Good for them. For crab, as I started, inside Tomales is mostly bad, but outside, if you can get there safely, the crab is better, maybe not as good as we would like, but better than inside the bay. Limits, for those that move around a lot.