Regular viewers of this report will recognize this hand, if not this particular fish. This picture is from yesterday, about an hour before the turn of the tide. Yes, the redtails are biting. If you suspected that there may be complications, yes, most of the fish being caught from the beach are jacksmelt and walleye perch. But, clearly, there are walleyes (at least one is confirmed, photographed, and released) and I'm told there was more than one caught and less than a limit. There have been some stripers caught off of Sand Point  (Sand Nub? There ain't much point there). I tried from a boat today, thinking that I'd have more options and a better chance of success. Not so. There were a few birds diving when I got there but they quit and bailed out. An hour after I left the day beach out to the bar (the shark pit to surfers) went off with birds pounding the water over several acres for 90 minutes. Brutal. From the surf line out to to the bar there were birds happily gobbling up baitfish. I think the bait is coming in. Early. It's an early year. When I launched the water was 58º, which is scalding in April. I'm starting to think that the quotas for salmon may not be met, as hot water equals few salmon caught. My early suggestion for this season: If you're not beating your weights against the rocks or mud you'll not have to worry about cleaning salmon blood off your boat. For salmon, deeper is colder, and colder is happier, to a point. Also, structure is food when school bait can't be found. We shall see. All will be revealed, but only on the timeline reality chooses. 

    Crabbing in the bay? Really bad, or pretty good, depending on who you talk to. Strangely, the people saying it's good seem happier. Maybe they're just happy people. Maybe good things happen to people that think good things will happen for them. Or, luck. Probably, success brings smiles. But mostly inside the bay has been really hard to catch. Some are being caught, and few fishermen are doing very well, but mostly people are trying and not catching. But. A not insignificant number of the crab being caught are hollow, pretty Hollywood crab, which means that they just molted. Soon, large enough crab will be appearing in your traps or hoops, as they have made completed their change..