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He has continued fishing for halibut and lingcod, earning much less.

The 3-foot camouflaged lingcod he’ll catch an hour later will, with butter, lemon, maybe some bread crumbs, feed the apex predator at the top of the pyramid.

If you’d prefer to hook your own, more than a dozen charter boat companies take visitors out for chinook and coho salmon, canary rockfish, lingcod, and halibut.

Members sign up for an annual subscription, then select what they want from the catch from about 40 local dayboats —halibut, lingcod, octopus, cabezon, for example.

If there is one place you don’t want to stick your finger, it’s the mouth of a Pacific lingcod.