A few windy days here, making it seem like spring is here, but today was nice, as is the forecast for the weekend. The break from the screaming northwest wind is appreciated. Wednesday and Thursday the wind was screaming. Luckily, not enough to cool the water down much, so there may still be bluefin offshore and (Gage hopes) halibut onshore still biting. Hopefully, we shall see.

     Last weekend we had quite a few clammers but only a few crabbers and no fishermen. The clammers did okay, as the clams have been doing well post-water pump ban. Crabbers mostly had a hard time, but there were a couple of good stories. One story from last Friday (the 27th) was of a gentleman wading off of the oceanfront beach in knee deep water that picked up two keeper Dungeness by hand. The other good story was three guys in a boat that caught only two crab all day on Saturday. Sunday they tried a different spot and caught their limits off of Dillon Beach proper. Monday they tried again and caught half limits before the crabs just stopped. These guys learned a few tips from Eddie Kim and burned through the squid and chicken to catch to their crab. Maybe the crab stopped because they caught them all. Or maybe the crab bite or don't, like fish. I'm leaning towards the bite or don't thing, but to be fair, there aren't a lot of crab out there.