Bob is finishing up in Portland at the PFMC meetings after giving it his all. Bob is serving his second or third term on the Groundfish Advisory Subpanel which is right at the heart of the rockfishing battle. I've never heard him so beat after a meeting. It's almost unbelieveable what takes place anymore just to be able to get the opportunity go fishing. Joe aka "Hooch" is filling in Bob's boots at the helm of the Queen and had an absolutely stellar day. He said he hasn't seen fishing this good in probably the last 20 years. They ended the day with limits of mostly browns and coppers for 13 anglers, and just about had limits of lingcod as well, with 25 lingcod landed up to 15 pounds. He said at one point 4 and 5 pound browns were coming over the rail as fast as you could bring them up. What was the hot lure? Everything and anything. Take your pick, it worked. Plastics, bars, flys...they all caught fish. The weather was absolutely gorgeous, too, absolutely flat calm, just like I thought it would be at the beginning of the week. There are a few spots still available on tomorrow's trip (see the "special trip announcement" paragraph above for info), and we have space on this Saturday's afternoon trip. Between the weather, the fishing and the impending closure, NOW is the time to go rockfishing.