Maybe not the best picture, but it's a picture of a surf-caught steelhead from Dillon Beach, so it really doesn't need to be the best. Statistically, this is lightning striking someone twice in two days in different locations. More people die every year from lightning strikes in the US than people catch steelhead here. Way, way more. Thanks for the picture, Doug, and man in the picture, well, should have bought a lottery ticket. I mean, good work and all, but I'd take the money and blow it on fishing, you unicorn-grasping fellow. Finally a fish picture without Gage! There are a few surfperch being caught now and some jacksmelt inside the bay but we're still waiting for the good stuff to start later on this season. They're coming. I'm already tying up leaders. 

     On the crabbing front, things may be turning, as they should by the calendar. Outside, the few commercial guys still fishing (the ones I know have already stacked their gear as the crab versus diesel math didn't work out in their favor, but they still talk to the other guys, and luckily, me too) have started picking up enough crab to actually pay the diesel bill, plus some. Part of that is that Dungeness got so hard to catch that the price went up on them, but that happened several weeks ago. Now there's a few more crab in the pots, not a lot but enough to pay the diesel bill, and a true fisherman needs only that. Well, that and an income enough to pay the bills in California, so maybe its a lot of crab. They aren't in the bay yet, but a few guys did okay inside the bay today. Not a lot, but dinner of Dungeness, and that's pretty good.