Another update on the back ponds. After last month's DFG Commission meeting where the EBPARKS Fisheries Manager very graciously came and gave comment in favor of opening the back ponds NOW instead of March 1, 2012 - the Commission has put the issue back on their agenda for the March 3, 2011 meeting in Los Angeles:
"UPDATE AND POSSIBLE COMMISSION ACTION ON EAST BAY REGIONAL PARK DISTRICT’S REQUEST TO CONSIDER CHANGES TO THE ALAMEDA CREEK SPORT FISHING REGULATIONS."
This seems like promising news and I'm feeling that surge of irrational optimism that they might just actually open those darn ponds up this year!