Fred Huber owns the Pt. Loma and the venerable half-day boat Daily Double and operates them from Pt. Loma Sportfishing. I spoke with Fred on the last day of August.

"It's been a good summer," he said. "We had really solid fishing for sand bass, with very few of the barely-legal 12-inchers. Our best one this summer was about eight pounds.

"We've had good bait, too, thanks to the Everingham Brothers, with lots of anchovies mixed in with the sardines. On some days we had almost all anchovies. So the kelp fishing was good, with the canopy back inside a bit. We had 'second row fishing' and lots of sugar bass (kelp rockfish) mixed in with the calicos. When the current was right you could fish the jig stick all day long."