Great update!  Best wishes to you, Keith.   

Way to get on it.   

I'm curious about the GW's and if they asked about a descender.

Me too.

Since, apparently, the law enforcement division of CDFW is so interested in tracking depths - like the 20 fathoms and less rockfish season that just ended and the 50 fathoms and more season that just started - you'd think they would enact a common sense rule that fishing in bays or in less than, say, 10 fathoms would be exempt from being checked for a descender.  Not that you wouldn't need to have one, but that you should expect to not be checked for one if you're obviously fishing shallow or even in a place where I'll stick my neck out and say that it's impossible to be in a position of needing a descender - like inside Humboldt Bay.

Up here the ocean kicked up a few notches for the first time in several weeks.  So it's looking like a shut-out.

That said, there's a chance that Monday the 30th will be fishable...   

This is getting high tech for sure.   

So the guy maybe droned his (oversized) bait out, sighted the sharks, dropped it in their path, hooked a GWS on purpose, used conspicuously heavy and specific gear, and...  Is this like a Winter Thread?!

Whatevers.  I admit I didn't go full Clouseau in my first analysis, but what comes of it other than a debate here? 

Carry on.   

May 11, 2025 Mothers Day
The weekend after have Negative tide like this year’s. Had fun picking urchins. 😁

In the past I realized I should avoid Mother's Day Weekend for the event - then, this year, I forgot!  I'm making it a solid rule now.   

Awesome.

Nice work, Chovy.  Looks like a great event.