Why did Jericho Wolf Labonte run a 35-foot pleasure cruiser across the Columbia River Bar and out onto the Pacific in the face of pretty stiff southerlies on Friday? Who’s to say, but a longtime local fishing guide who spent time on some of these same waters with him just days before Labonte’s dramatic rescue at sea has an inkling.

Mocrocks will open for razor clam digging February 4, 6 and 8, providing another beach on the Washington Coast to harvest a limit over the coming days as marine toxin levels have abated to safe levels on them.