I usually don't come here this time of year, but the visibility has been decent in the Inlet lately. I swam out to the right along the shore towards the marina. There are a lot more fish here than there used to be. There were large schools of young black and yellowtail rockfish (with a few adults mixed in). Adult brown rockfish were everywhere. I saw a plainfin midshipman swimming around. Under the dock, there was another large school of juvenile black and yellow-tail rockfish as well as the usual perch. Visibility here was around 15-20 feet and there was lots of that stringy, white plankton stuff. I swam out over the sand towards the wreck. I turned around and saw a group of around 10 sole following me in a line. I guess they were waiting for me to kick up the sand and scare up their lunch. When I reached the wreck, visibility had improved a bit to around 20-25 feet. The large school of perch that used to hang out here seems to have thinned out a bit. Instead, there were rockfish everywhere. There were groups of black and yellow-tail rockfish hovering above the wreck and lots of brown rockfish hugging the bottom. These were all large adults. Of course there were the usual copper rockfish and medium-sized lingcod as well. I saw around 5 painted greenlings and a few "mystery" rockfish with long lower jaws that I think were silver-gray rockfish. The only other place I've ever seen them was Ogden Point. Of course I took my usual self-portrait photos. When I was taking one of myself by the metal storage tank, a large (5-6 foot) dogfish shark swam over me, past my camera and away over the rocky reef. Of course the camera was 10 feet away from my trigger finger. On the swim back, I saw a few tiny sea pens and another, smaller dogfish shark on the sand. Of course it darted away before I could get close enough for a picture. I wish the sharks here were more like they are in the movies; blood-thirsty and vicious enough not to care that I have a @#&* camera.


































