Thursday the ocean was beautiful. Not quite flat calm, but almost. Quite a few boats hit the water in search of crab and rockfish. Quite a few boats also had issues with catching those things. Neither the crab nor the rockfish wanted to play ball. One boat that had caught their limits of Dungeness at Abbott's Lagoon in his last two trips found himselfgoing home without limits today. Another boat tried 10 Mile in a couple of places and only caught one keeper. The Outer Bay has a few crab if you work hard at it but it seems that north of Salmon Creek there's some good crabbing and rockfishing if you can find them. 

    Here's a report from yesterday:  "  

Good  morning Willy,

I was part of a mass fleet of boats crabbing north of Bodega Thursday.  I got out early enough to find a small patch of real estate to work my 8 hoops and 2 rings in 80-94’ of water.  Two pulls of the string produced limits for the two of us with a 30-45 minute soak.  Others I spoke to did not fair as well so it seems I got lucky and found that sweet spot.  It was a very slow bite for rockfish at Ft. Ross reef, but we did manage to box a couple in addition to limits of ling cod.  Overall a productive day on a beautiful flat calm ocean.

Regards,

Brad Stompe "  Nice work, sir. Rockfish have been hard to find in the shallows. I stopped at Point Reyes yesterday and we caught about half limits of rockfish but we saw two other boats there from San Francisco Bay. That's a long way to go for rockies. I'm guessing that things are tough all over if they are running that far.

   Gage, brother-in-law Greg and I tried for bluefin and albacore yesterday from north of Bodega Canyon to Cordell and only had one bite. The bite was from a striped marlin. 56 degree water seems to cold, but we never got the chance to explain that to him as he jumped away into the distance. Strange days.