Wow, check out that upwelling! The wind sucks (and there's been a lot of it) but it is fighting the "ocean heat wave" by bringing up that deep, cold water. Only once this year has the water temp dropped below 50º at the Point Reyes wave rider buoy and it didn't last. June is supposed to have the coldest water of the year here, and it does, but not as cold as it should be. That said, there should be enough upwelling and warming for the plankton to bloom and the anchovies and salmon smolts to eat, if not their fill, maybe enough. Water temps are tracking like in 2015, and if you want to know what that means you can look back on this very blog and see the reports. 2015 was a strange year, but another year like that might damage my shoulder from all the high-fiving. It's looking like a repeat, of sorts. Strange things are afoot in the parking lot of the Circle K. 

   I heard of a few fish inside the bay this week. There was at least one white seabass caught near Hog and Gage picked up a bass with stripes in the same vicinity, both on Wednesday. There's been a few halibut in the same area. There are occasionally catchable sardines and mackerel by Hog to use for bait but it hasn't been as consistent as one would hope. Those sardines would probably make great salmon bait when the time comes. They're blue label-sized beauties, when you can find them. Crabbing has been really bad in the outer bay and down and Ten Mile for Dungeness but a few are still being caught inside the bay. Not many, but any is better than what I've heard from outside.