Back in the late 1970's I for a brief period held the State Record for a Copper Rockfish caught in the San Juan's. The state sent me a master angler's patch which I sewed on a green short sleeve uniform type shirt, which I use to wear while doing seminars with Fred Vader Werff when we owned Sebastes jigs which we started in 1977.

I never even thought about the official looking patch when Fred and I would go catch several rockfish, to be shown in an ice chest at a seminar. We fished out of the Armini Ramp in west Seattle and would go directly to where the seminar was being held, so I wore the shirt fishing.

It was very interesting how the crowd at the ramp began to dissipate as I walked down the ramp to our boat.

There must have been some guilty conscious folks that drifted away as I came down the ramp, never thinkingt that they must have thought I was a state employee , possibly an LE.

When I realized what was happening, I transferred the patch to a red flannel shirt.

Not having anything to do with flounder, but I thought it was a good story.