Indeed, this summer has been particularly tough. The day before, we fished for six hours and caught nothing (while the boat fleet reported catching a fish per rod), and three days before that, we also came back to shore with no fish for our efforts. We have one fish aboard, a 14- or 15-pounder, and we hope to catch three more. The daily bag limit is two fish per angler. My brother Andrew and I are in a pedal-powered kayak two miles from shore off the Marin County coast, where anchovies so thick they darken the water have attracted birds, porpoises, sea lions, thresher sharks, humpback whales and - our target - Chinook salmon. We relax and slow back to our standard trolling speed of about 2.5 miles per hour, and we plod forward. A moment later it surfaces again, with another poof, now off to our right, moving away. We pedal double-time to dodge the humpback, behind us and approaching from the left. They erupt from the ocean with a rush of displaced water and a poof of air.
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