After enduring what many locals claimed was the coldest winter week they had ever experienced there was an abrupt change. Daytime temperatures soared back up to the mid-eighties. Is the sudden change signs of an early spring? Everyone I spoke with expressed optimism. Maybe with the change the sierra, yellowtail and maybe a bonito or even a dorado will shed their winter doldrums and begin to bite. Any way you cut it, lots of eager locals are shedding their winter coats, suiting up in shorts and actually considering getting back out on the water.