As of now we can salmon fish inside of three miles, but if the commission chooses to shut down state waters to conform with the federal government at its April 6-7 meeting, we could lose that, too. |
It's one thing to take over a program that is down, but it's even tougher when your archrival happens to be the best team in the nation. How do you compete with that? That game was a breakthrough. |
The monkey was off our back. We played a home game the following week, and I remember telling the team, 'Guys, we have to find our goalpost.' It was kind of crooked, but we had it up by the next week. |
They bombarded the council, the Secretary of Commerce, and engaged a bipartisan group of legislators from the Central Valley and Coastal counties to support salmon fishing. It was an unprecedented show of force and solidarity. |
To be honest, we were shocked. There was nothing on our agenda indicating we would even discuss the opener below Point Arena. |
We didn't just bring in anybody. We weren't going to lower our standards. We wanted guys with good character, and not necessarily characters. |