Keith, my vote for a change in start time would be 6am rather than 7, due to the 2:31am low tide. An extra hour of flood could prove to be the most productive part of the day.

7 is my lucky number!  I vote for the 7th.

Hi Brian!  No I wasn't given much information, just a few photos.  My buddy Eli consults for the City of Oakland as a limnologist and is working on Lake Merrit where the boat is located.  Eli and I are crabbing in his motor boat Thursday in Tomales so I think I can stop by the sail boat and get more information on it.

It's probably been done before in that size boat, but I wouldn't want to sell that thing to Hawaii. It is free. The city of Oakland carries paperwork on it.

Tuoulmne River  - Sacramento pikeminnow - you just can't hate on a native salmon muncher when we have soooooo many nonnative salmon munchers.

I vaguely remember that story. This is not that.....  Flat smooth carapace vs rounded plated carapace. How about those front legs – free dive flippers vs mitten claws.  We are over run with invasives.  But wait, last year ~12,000 Mahi-mahi harvested in southern CA.  that's about 8,000 more than any previous year.  Wait till they start showing in the Bay, we probably wont complain about the lack of salmon any more......

The Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) has released an updated fish advisory issued today for San Francisco Bay that provides safe-eating advice for 18 fish species, including new “do-not-eat” advice for Mississippi Silverside, Pacific Sardine and Topsmelt. Additionally, no one should eat fish or shellfish from Lauritzen Channel in Richmond Inner Harbor.
OEHHA developed the recommendations based on the levels of mercury and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) found in fish caught from the bay. The “do-not-eat” advice for all fish in the Lauritzen Channel located in Richmond Inner Harbor remains in effect from the previous advisory due to high levels of dieldrin and DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane and its byproducts).

If you have any questions about these advisories, please contact OEHHA at fish.advisory@oehha.ca.gov.

Press Release:  https://oehha.ca.gov/advisories/san-francisco-bay

At work I snorkel in 48-56F water comfortably all day. I use the same wetsuit gear when I kayak in the ocean because I know I can swim in it for a long time in cold water. Expect the worst, survive to fish another day. I wear a 7 mm aqualung farmer John, a hyper flex 1.5 mm top it’s a pull over it’s just like a sweatshirt without a hood, NRS socks NRS boots, and a NRS paddle life jacket. If you wanted to be really safe you would have a hood and gloves attached to the back of your life jacket somehow that didn’t get in your way. And a compass and whistle. Find it used, barter, go on the cheap, but test it first.