Rockfish, all depths, opens on April 1st. I lead with this, as I heard you should start with the good news first. Crabbing has been bad and would only be worse if you had to make a living off catching crab. Even the sneaky spot for crab, "danger close" to the surf off of Dillon Beach has been drained of any reason to be that close to breakers. Good place to lose gear to sanding in, still, as hydrodynamics and sand movement don't change. The last report I had from there was ten pots soaking for five days with eight Dungeness. Better than nothing but that's less than 1 crab per 6 pot/days. No bueno. There's supposedly a wave of hot water working its way here from Southern California, as their water is 5+ degrees warmer than usual for the time of year, and our had been too, but spring upwelling winds had dropped our temps to close to normal, or what scientists call "cold." They could warm pretty quickly if the wind quits, but for now the water is closer to normal than Niño. The wind-driven upwelling and cold water does bring up the mineral-rich water from the very bottom of the sea and allow a bloom of life. It's good to remember that, when it also means that the water is cold and potentially fatal if you spend to many unprotected minutes in it. Last weekend a couple of kayakers near Marshall rolled over in the wind and one of them died. The water is cold. Please dress appropriately. I don't know the specifics of the sad event but it seems that wetsuits (or dry suits) and properly fitted life jackets would have helped. They almost never hurt. We had a kayaker roll over here a little before four in the afternoon the same day but somebody saw him do it and came in to the office. Luckily, John Daleuski has just returned from town with his now fully-fueled Whaler, and Gage dispatched him to the scene. Our kayaker lived, grudgingly, as he didn't think he needed rescue (Counterpoint: clinging to your boat while it drifts is not self-rescue. It's not dying as quick. If you're not making for shore you're dying, eventually. FYI). Good work, Johnny-on-the-Spot. Our Mr. Daleuski has another nickname here but he's working hard on the Johnny-on-the-Spot one taking over the other one. A few more rescues might do it. Fingers crossed, Johnny.