Saturday, October 30 - Halloween is tomorrow, and almost as if on cue, ghosts appear for the first time onboard the Queen of Hearts. Ghosts, as in white seabass that is. White seabass are nicknamed "ghosts" because they appear without warning and usually disappear just about as quick, so catching them is a real treat, especially in Northern California where they had not been seen very much until this year. They are such a special, excellent eating fish that guys on long range trips out of Southern California will stand at the rail all night long just for the chance of catching one. If you follow my reports, you may remember how I said more than a month ago that white seabass had appeared off our coastline, and that maybe, just maybe, someone might be lucky enough to land one on a rockfishing trip. Well, today was the day. And not just one was landed, but a total of four were brought in, with the biggest a nice 36 pounder, as well as a 21 pounder and two "baby" 18 pounders. The HMB superfly rigs do it again, as three out of four of the seabass were landed on the same HMB superfly rigs tipped with a strip of squid that have been the top fish catcher overall this season. In addition to the seabass, we ended the day with about half limits of rockcod. We have one last day tomorrow to fish the waters above Pigeon Point, so hopefully we'll end the month on a high note. Still enough space available that if you'd like to join us, just come on down in the morning and check in at our shop between 5:30 to 6:15.