On a lucky day for you to a grind-it-out day for them, you’ll find one or two behind sunglasses, still barking business. Sonoma County has Bodega Bay, Half Moon Bay enters the ocean from Pillar Point, and boats come and go from Santa Cruz and Moss Landing and Monterey (thoughts on Cannery Row mingled above) and on down the line. The HMB charter boat Huli Cat made the run Tuesday, stopping to make bait outside the Red Can, worked between the Guide and 601 (at 37′00/123′05, according to the skip), and had 19 longfins for four anglers, who farmed at least another 15 fish. Out Monday, drifting live bait alongside Angel Island (at Blunt Point), Alcatraz (at high water) and over Berkeley Flats, the boat worked through all the short fish for five keepers, including 29- and 32-pounders, landed by a husband and wife, both into their octogenarian years. When he finds a large school, he positions his boat over the fish, and his clients jig them up on spoon lures, 20, 30, 40 fish in a day, fishing, catching and releasing until they’re giddy or bored. read more

