I good fisherman will work a spot in which he knows he will have success for a long time. Gage worked this one for seven years and finally set the hook yesterday. That is skill, or at least he says it is. It turns out that there is something that Gage loves more than fishing. Congratulations Gage and Amanda!

      The wind howled at the Landing (and most of the rest of the coast) this weekend. Combined seas hit 18 feet and the water temp dropped to 49.5º at the Point Reyes waverider buoy. Good for the salmon but a bad time for anyone on the coast. Of course, the windy weather happened to land on some very low tide days. There was one boat that rolled over this morning just off the beach on their return from the clam islands but water conditions contributed less to the incident than did boat overloading. Were they okay, you ask? Well, luckily they had attached their life jackets to their plastic "single use" shopping bags full of clams, so when the boat rolled over the clams floated safely and the poorly-swimming clammers could cling to deployed  life saving devices, even if that was not the designers intent of use. My suggestion would to be use the PFDs as designed, you know, wear them, but I guess whatever floats your boat. Or keester. The big tides also kept the crab count low, as high currents generally equal low crab counts in the bay. Fish counts today were like crab counts. Maybe tomorrow....