March 2018 archives

2003 PFIC/UPSAC Goleta Pier Get Together

Date: July 14, 2003; To: PFIC Message Board; From: Songslinger; Subject: Thank You, Pierhead! Pierhead came through, did he not? And to think that, for a tense moment in the dawn, there was a dangerous brush with the Total Immersion Morality Moms. Until it morphed into maturedotcom esther williams choreography. Dude. You will have to [...]

2004 PFIC/UPSAC Catalina Get Together

Date: April 26, 2004; To: PFIC Message Board; From: Ken Jones; Subject: A Catalina Report 2004 Day One — Thursday, April 22, 2004. Following a quick 5 1/2 hour drive down from Lodi, I caught the 12 o’clock ferry to Catalina (which was late), arrived a little after 1 o’clock, and soon checked into the [...]

2003 PFIC Catalina Get Together

Two logos were available for the 2nd annual Get Together May 1, 2003; Memo To: PFIC Message Board; From: Ken Jones; Subject: Catalina Get Together #2 Green Pleasure Pier (Avalon, Catalina Island) – It was pretty much non-stop action for the pier rats who invaded the pier last Friday-Sunday. An assortment of fish on the [...]

Record Cabezon — Bruce Kuhn

I received the following from Bruce Kuhn and had a nice talk with him about the fish and his efforts to prove his catch with the IGFA (with no luck). I then tried to get a picture of the cabezon from the Department of Fish and Wildlife but apparently most of the old files are [...]

The Newport Beach Dory Fleet — Looking Back #7 — 1989

Hunky Dory — Plucking Fish From a Dangerous Ocean in a Small Boat: ‘This, It’s Not Easy, You Know?’ Says One Who Does It Onshore, the bright orange morning sun has just begun to show behind the towers of Newport Center, nearly 4 miles to the north, as Nick D’Amato falls into a relentless, flailing [...]