Bit On Slide

The Rick Ozaki Charter, a 16-day trip aboard Independence with 27 anglers, arrived at Pt. Loma Sportfishing February 7 with owner-skippers Mark Pisano and Paul Strasser sharing the driving duties.

"We started inside off Mag Bay, said Pisano, "and then we went out past the islands to the Hurricane Bank It was slow there, too."

The good news, said Pisano, is that fishing legally offshore from the islands "