Captain’s Log: Recounting a Wild Tale of Salmon, Sea Lion and Shark

Captain’s Log: Recounting a Wild Tale of Salmon, Sea Lion and Shark

We are now in salmon season, and I’m hearing reports of incidental catches locally in the Santa Barbara Channel. I haven’t fished for them yet this season, but I sure am thinking about them and remembering wild fishing trips of the past. I was recounting (which is sorta like spinning a yarn, but with more of the truth left in) a particularly wild moment on a day of salmon fishing off Carpinteria, during a memorable past season. It went like this…