Salmon
The
salmon season is finally coming to an end. What a ride! And to
think, 4 years ago everyone was predicting the end of salmon on the
West Coast. Go figure! That's what 3 years of upwelling and a more
sane water management policy will do (ie: bring the salmon back).
Although the numbers are down (everywhere except in the rivers),
there are still some donkey-sized salmon coming back to the docks.
And if ever there was a time to go throw a mooching rig off of Yellow
Bluff, this is it! I would imagine they are nailing salmon at Rodeo
right now, but I haven't checked the reports in a while. The catch
totals on the Klamath this month were... yes I'm going to use this
word now... reedonckulous.
Sardines
As can
be predicted, there have been quite a few sardines running in and around 3rd street. Monkeyface Operative 007, aka: Champion de la Banana,
reports he caught 38 sardines in two hours of jigging with a (totally
legal) 3 hook Sabiki near Agua Vista Pier a week ago. I have no idea
why sardines forego all the other areas of the bay, and show up on
that dilapidated shoreline every year, but they do and I'm not going
to complain about it. The popular wisdom tells us that
bio-accumulation is a non-issue in species like sardines. Especially
in areas where they are merely passing through.
Surf
Smelt
My surf smelt woes have now reached
epic proportions. The truth is, they just did not run this year.
Talking to the old timers out on the beaches, everyone tells me that
surf smelt are streaky. They will typically run hard for a few years
and then disappear for a few years. That seems to be what's
happening. I mean we had 4 stellar years in a row, hard to ask for
more than that. Still I can only adequately express my
disappointment in verse. So I will now wax haikuic.
Fish Haiku #2139
(From: The Smelt Diaries, Book III,
ch, 7., p. 238)
Surf smelt in the foam
Were you just a dream of mine?
Or will you return?
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