I'm excited to see the new facilities. Anything was an improvement over that grungy port a potty lol.

Thanks Keeneroo,

I actually just got off the phone with Rebekah, she is super chill and.im totally going to take her 2 day class. Just have to pick a date....thinking of going 2 weekends from now [which is her next class]. Cant wait, hope the weather and viz are good!

Just called sonoma coast divers, and they have a class in april at van damm. Stoked! Thanks guys.

Thanks

Doesn't seem like there's much action in this sub forum, but I'm interested in trying spearfishing. If any of you guys are going out and dont mind a noob tagging along, let me know. I went to the Free Dive shop in west sac, they've got rental gear for me so I'm all good on that front. Txt.... nine one six eight zero six four zero five eight.
--Phil

So, I (very fortunately) have two salmon I recently caught (non yak) and wanted to make some lox. As most of you are aware, to kill parasites the FDA  recommends -31 degrees F for 18 hours, or -7 for 7 days to kill tapeworm and nematodes....which *a lot* of pacific salmon carry (one source I found years ago while doing a paper on the subject in school said nearly all salmon and pacific rockfish are infected, but I can’t find it). Well, that’s kind of a bummer to me because I really love Lox.  Somebody here, I think it was Moo, purchased a scientific freezer to bring the temperature down to the specified levels. I came up with an alternate method… I filled the bottom of my yeti cooler with solid Styrofoam I bought at Home Depot and cut it to fit the cooler. I then placed the fish on the Styrofoam (vac packed and already frozen at 0 F)) with a raised wire tray above that. On top of that I put 8 pounds of dry ice and a few more blocks of insulation on top of that and shut the cooler. And viola....my salmon has been at -61 degrees for the last 19 hours. It totally worked!

I fish at Ft Ross quite a bit. I’ve had much better luck north, near those big rocks. Just about 50 yards south of the first rock you come to going North is an awesome spot....very snaggy though! I bet there’s at least a thousand pounds of lead stuck to that structure lol.

I'm interested...need to figure out if i can get a hall pass from the wife and kid to do a full day of fishing...i think i hear lingcod calling my name 

Just an fyi.....I'm gonna hit up the bay again this weekend for butts, so I won't be there. But damn it I'm so torn....with the commercial crab closure, I bet there'll be easy limits.