It's one thing to take over a program that is down, but it's even tougher when your archrival happens to be the best team in the nation. How do you compete with that? That game was a breakthrough.

The monkey was off our back. We played a home game the following week, and I remember telling the team, 'Guys, we have to find our goalpost.' It was kind of crooked, but we had it up by the next week.

To be honest, we were shocked. There was nothing on our agenda indicating we would even discuss the opener below Point Arena.

As of now we can salmon fish inside of three miles, but if the commission chooses to shut down state waters to conform with the federal government at its April 6-7 meeting, we could lose that, too.

They bombarded the council, the Secretary of Commerce, and engaged a bipartisan group of legislators from the Central Valley and Coastal counties to support salmon fishing. It was an unprecedented show of force and solidarity.