Recent content by EgoNonBaptizo

Yep, thats a little chinook smolt. Looks like at least some of the 3.5 million fall run smolts they released directly into the Sac River survived.

Adding to this, (Hi, I'm alive!) I'm sure all the runoff from the burned out hillsides would have dumped God knows how much phosphorus and nitrogen and other algal-bloom kickstarting nutrients into the water. That and the additional urban runoff I'm sure are two major factors in the domoic acid...

I'm in the Central Valley atm, a little south of Stockton. By studio I do mean a studio apartment.

Breaking radio silence with a late report, I (still) don't have internet in my studio, and honestly it's a little liberating not having it. Anyways, onto the fishing. 5/25 I had a wedding to go to on Saturday, and it just so happened to be near Santa Cruz. Not wanting to waste the opportunity...

Hi, thanks for reaching out, and welcome to the wonderful, sulfurous world of mudflat clamming! I'll do my best to answer these questions, but there are still some things I am learning myself. (And also break my long radio silence) Here in California, toxic algal blooms are a significant risk...

Two weeks after my last surf outing, I began to feel that itch again. Luckily for me, I had an exit seminar to attend out at Bodega Marine Laboratory, so why not beat midday traffic and get some fishing in? (Warning, long and overdramatic) 10/27 I pulled up to the same beach I fished last...

Late report, but I figured I may as well break the radio silence. Since graduating, I have settled down (somewhat) and started working in the Central Valley in fisheries (to nobody's surprise). Lately I've been fishing mostly freshwater for the usual suspects, but every now and then I feel the...

Beautiful fish! That's not a kelpfish of any kind, but is a painted greenling (Oxylebius pictus)! Strictly speaking, they aren't true greenlings, having been recently split off into Zaniolepididae with the Zaniolepis combfishes. Also, I didn't know you could fish at Salt Point, I've been there a...

According to the CDPH shellfish advisory webpage, dangerous levels of domoic acid have been detected in shellfish from Santa Barbara county, while dangerous levels of paralytic shellfish poisoning (likely saxitoxins) have been detected in shellfish from San Luis Obispo and San Mateo counties...

Extremely late report from my last trip to Avalon, conditions have likely changed since. This will also be long winded with some tangents on non-fishing related things, with fewer pictures than usual. After graduating in June, this would be my last summer break (ever!), so what better to do...

A very strong El Niño pattern is currently developing offshore, with a Sea Surface Temperature (SST) anomaly of 4-5°C in the equatorial Eastern Pacific. Very classic El Niño pattern as opposed to a negative SST anomaly characteristic of normal/La Niña conditions. Of additional interest is the...

Oh boy here we go, y'all ready for another year of shellfish closures and lost exotics? On a (probably boring) note, the oceanographic conditions currently off our coast are at odds with a full blown El Niño, with a significant negative sea surface temperature (SST) anomaly and strong...

Unfortunately I cannot make it on the 14/15, that is smack dab in the middle of finals week.

That lines up perfectly with the week of break I have after graduation. I'll try to join you then.

If it's any comfort, there's like 5 other fish called "sheephead" or "sheepshead", including another sheepshead porgy (Calamus penna), sheepshead drum (Aplodinotus grunniens), sheepshead pupfish (Cyprinodon variegatus), and then of course the other Bodianus wrasses closely related to our...