Gage and I had a pretty good day today. We headed down to Ten Mile for rockfish and crab. The east wind was screaming between Tomales Point and McClure's, but dropped off there and was only unpleasant after that. We got hosed in the two miles between the Point and McClures. Hosed. But after braving the gauntlet of fricking cold spray, we arrived at Ten Mile, and there we saw multiple bird piles. Upon closer inspection we realized the birds were working squid. Balled up squid. So we pulled in and got some squid. Twice. Gage dip netted some and whooped it up, but I said not yet. We went back for seconds. Gage netted about 25 pounds of squid all told. They made for some good crab bait, as well as a brown rockcod we caught and parted out for our two hoops. The hoops provided nine Dungeness out of two pulls near Abbott's Lagoon in 80 feet of water. The reefs outside provided nineteen more nice rockfish, including a ten pound vermillion for Gage. There were some really nice blues in the mix as well. Lots and lots of tiny fish returned too, but they all swam back down without help in the shallow water. We ended up with nine mostly jumbo crab. We tried for some brant in the outer bay on the way back but we missed our birds. Good enough for today, as it took until well after 4:00 PM until fish were fileted, crabs were cooked and squid were bagged. It was a lot of work, but the squid (calamari?) and crab linguine for dinner was awesome. Lots of boats running back from Point Reyes (I'm guessing) so I'm guessing that there was some activity down there.