The Sacramento Chinook are way down, but there. Have a picture of my Dad with a Chinook he took in Monterey Bay in '56 when we lived in Santa Cruz.

The transient KWs are there a lot, especially since the return of the Grey Whales. The Killers nab calves on the way to AK. It was only recently that our SRKWs were actually identified there, and documented. But, this foray was observed (so far) on only one day.

There is also the idea that the whales are down there because there used to be food. There is nothing up here so memory gives them another place to go.

Only fished the ocean a few times, out of Morro Bay chasing rockfish (got rockfish, saw albatross, and mal-de-mer), and once out of Sauselito after rockfish and stripers. Got rocks, and a murre, under the Golden Gate Bridge. Me and boats simply don't mix.

The Sacramento still holds some huge fish. Seems that there are a few stocks of Chinook that still manage to feed at sea where the various hook and liners don't.