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Lombard Of The Intertidal On NPR

(Okay... I fixed the links... let's try this again!)

Hey everybody!  Guess what?  I'm on NPR!  

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Scroll down to the picture of me, then click the play back thingee, and slide the cursor to the last third (the Fishwife says my interview begins at 31:14). 

In other news... while everyone's talking about tuna, salmon and now, white seabass... Lombard of the Intertidal would like to be the first to inform the people of San Francisco that the sardines have finally arrived!  Where?

 

                           The local Sabiki crew.  Jigging dinner from Islais (AKA: "Shit") Creek.                                    

 

Shit Creek.  That's where.  Sardines have been running on outgoing and dead low tides at Shit (Islais) Creek this week. Although the guys pictured above are fishing for dinner, I can't really say I'm overjoyed at the prospect of eating something taken out of that particular body of water (remember this post?). Nevertheless, sardines are still the best baitfish known to man, and the ones I caught yesterday will seem like sparkling clean, dioxin-less fish from the bright blue ocean when they flutter in the face of the king salmon I intend to catch on the Trinity this fall.

 

                                                 Inner city sardine.

 

Heading out for nightfish tonight (Thurs).  If any like minded individual gets this and wants to join me, shoot me an e-mail.  I hate walking that beach alone.

--Kirk-out

 

 

 

 

 

 

Last Night's Dinner

 

I've had a few interesting pix sent my way of late. Several fisher-folk trying to identify the stuff in the stomachs of various predatory fish.  First shot is from a salmon caught off Stinson Beach... let's see how good you are at partially digested invertebrate i.d.

 

          No wonder your flasher is scaring away the salmon.  Look what they were feeding on.

 

Now these little guys were eaten shortly before the fish was caught so it's kind of a no brainer on the i.d., (Crangon nigromaculata--black spotted bay shrimp) but the next photo is open to debate.  (See below... be forewarned mom, these are a tad disgusting).

Anyway, these gruesome morsals were found in the stomach of a shore caught cabezon pulled from the ocean at low tide in the Halfmoon Bay area. 

 

 

I mean to those who have eaten gaper clams the top one sure looks like a clam siphon doesn't it? Going with a fat innkeeper worm on the other one.  Thing is, I usually associate these species with muddy bottom... and cabezon with rock.  Open to opinions on this one.

Oh and by the way.  Look at this gigantic smelt I caught the other day.

        Yes.  Occasionally this man catches something other than smelt.

Kirk-out