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-------------------------------1155919635 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Spent the morning all over the lower bay fishing in glassy waters. Good for observing but unfortunately not much to observe. There were three resident harbour porpoise but no larger dolphins or whales. Half a dozen harbour seals were inshore and about 12 Grays were around the lower half of the bay. No evidence of mackerel which probably explains the low numbers of marine mammals. There are still some of the original run of mackerel in the upper reaches of the bay. No sun fish, turtles or Tuna. On the positive side I had no difficulty getting my limit of cod in the 24 inch range. I always inspect the stomachs and they were feeding primarily on red rock shrimp, small crabs and brittle stars. One cod was quite large but very skinny. On cleaning it had more than 30 worms compared with an average of 4 or 5 for the others. My impression is that large numbers of worms do have an effect on the health of the fish but I have never seen any definitive word on that. Perhaps one of our experts could comment. Peter Stow Hubbards -------------------------------1155919635 Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; charset=3DUS-ASCII"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2900.2963" name=3DGENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=3Drole_body style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY:=20= Arial"=20 bottomMargin=3D7 leftMargin=3D7 topMargin=3D7 rightMargin=3D7><FONT id=3Drol= e_document=20 face=3DArial color=3D#000000 size=3D2> <DIV>Spent the morning all over the lower bay fishing in glassy waters. Good= for=20 observing but unfortunately not much to observe. There were three resident=20 harbour porpoise but no larger dolphins or whales. Half a dozen harbour= =20 seals were inshore and about 12 Grays were around the lower half of the bay.= No=20 evidence of mackerel which probably explains the low numbers of marine mamma= ls.=20 There are still some of the original run of mackerel in the upper reaches of= the=20 bay. No sun fish, turtles or Tuna.</DIV> <DIV>On the positive side I had no difficulty getting my limit of cod in the= 24=20 inch range. I always inspect the stomachs and they were feeding primarily on= red=20 rock shrimp, small crabs and brittle stars. One cod was quite large but very= =20 skinny. On cleaning it had more than 30 worms compared with an average=20= of 4=20 or 5 for the others. My impression is that large numbers of worms do have an= =20 effect on the health of the fish but I have never seen any definitive word o= n=20 that. Perhaps one of our experts could comment.</DIV> <DIV>Peter Stow</DIV> <DIV>Hubbards </DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML> -------------------------------1155919635--
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