Rainycity: Hate to rain on your parade, but your comment about Californians is asinine: "Just another California transplant changing life here in the great northwest,
and not for the better probably." All because the guy was legally fishing for sharks? Come on.

I try and stay out of arguments on this board, but I'm gonna have to take exception with this one. Making blanket statements about Californians is just flat-out silly. I myself am a 3rd-generation Californian presently living and working in Seattle. Why did I finally leave California? Because too many outsiders, including millions--yes, millions--of Northwesterners, have flooded into California over the past 50 years, overcrowding the state and creating all sorts of problems. The truth of the matter is this: people flock to nice places; everyone craves a high quality of life, be it in California or Washington or Timbuktu. A Californian in Washington is no worse than a Wa****onian in California. Heck, unless you're a Native American, it's a pretty safe bet that your family isn't native to the Northwest, just as mine isn't...