One of the reasons why I love where I live!!

The other day, a friend of mine calls and tells me he's been in Monterey with his family - his daughter is being looked at by a few colleges wanting her for their soccer abilities. He tells me they are coming south on the 101 on their way home and asked me to dinner at Jocko's. No carnivore of any substance would deny such an invitation. While thinking of what I would order the following evening, I thought it would nice if they could go home with a nice bag of rockfish filets from our local waters (they love fish!). The following morning around 6am - I hitch up the boat, grab a few rods and yank the boat to Port San Luis. I'm in the water by 630am and fishing by 700am. Before long, I catch a couple of dandy reds, blues and a nice ling that decided to hitchhike on a nice size johnny - and it really was a nice johnny, just mangled it though. I knew the moment it latched on. When I got to the bottom and wiggled the jig a bit, a got a nice bite and started to reel up. A couple of winds later, it got really heavy! Yup, hitchhiker - a good one too. And sure enough, at the boat he has clamped onto the johnny bass and is not about to let go. Bang goes the gaff - and my fishing is done for the day. Plenty of fish filets for my friend William, wife Collette and daughter Danielle! I look at my watch and it's 830am. I had been fishing for an hour and a half. I love this place.