I did a charter out of that general area when I was in High School. Our boat was hauling in more rock fish than you can imagine - at one time everyone on board was fighing fish at the same time. In the end we had 118 fish in the box. I got real sick of eating rock fish after a while.

And now that I look back on it, I get kinda sick to my stomach - thinking that I contributed to this kind of reckless overharvest. Especially when bottom fishing in Puget Sound or the Vancouver BC area. Just imagine what it must have been like 100 yrs ago!!

Anyway, didn't mean to digress...