Fish in the Bay – Special Report: Lower South Bay Broodstock Trawls, Jan 2025 – Return to Oz.
Longfin Smelt Broodstock trawls continued over numerous days through January, February, and even into the first weeks of March. I...
Longfin Smelt Broodstock trawls continued over numerous days through January, February, and even into the first weeks of March. I...
This is the rest of the February report – Fishes, bugs, plus a few other items that didn’t fit into...
January 2025 was a very disappointing month for Longfin Smelt. Longfin spawning season started well enough. November and December numbers...
Merry Fishmas everyone! I fell horribly behind in my fish reporting, so I am combining Fishmas with the November blog. ...
A belated September report … The overall raw fish count increased, but this was not good news. Almost 50% of...
A belated September fish report: I missed September trawls, but Sami, Niko, and Janai sent me some photos. I got...
The big story for August is that another 464 baby Starries were caught. When added to all the Starries caught...
A slightly belated report from August trawls. At the time of this report, we were not yet aware of Red...
Happy New Year 2022. I am thinking about 2021 in review, but at the same time, I am still catching...
Trawl map. The results from October trawls were a mix of good and bad news on several levels. Bay-side...
Operation Guadalupe trawl stations. Operation Guadalupe. Continued. For this third and last installment, we surveyed the upstream tidal end of...
Trawl map. We are continuing to experience a very good Anchovy year. The 2021 total is on track to possibly...
Trawl map. November trawls confirmed that winter arrived in Lower South Bay: Total fish counts dropped from over 7,900 in...
Trawl map annotated with Anchovies and Silversides. Anchovy spawning locations are circled in pink. Two major trends continued in October: ...
