I had a feeling that Brian would enjoy my comment about trout as only bass food (cormorants like trout too). Seriously, I grant that most 1/4 - 1/2 lb DFG newly planted trout fight like a wet noodle (but are less tasty). However, again I say don't knock fishing deeper for 3 - 7 lb holdover trout. I have caught such trout that fought as well as steelhead that I have caught of the same size, and, on the other hand, I have caught 1/4 lb steelhead that did not fight much harder than a comparable planter trout.

I wonder if some of the anglers who disparage trout fishing are among those who wait (usually in vain), as I do, for a decent salmon run off SB. Am I wrong, but aren't most of our ocean salmon actually plants (hatchery fish)?

All fishing is great. Lets get the Condor to do a mullet charter!