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All the "Old Timer" fishermen will remember the names of the boats that fished out of Humboldt Bay in the 1970s and 1980s. We do.

We were the Red Baron-Howard was captain and I was fish netter. We would fish every weekday after Howard retired in 1981. We'd leave the weekends for the people who worked.

Most everyone had a CB (citizens band) radio and would call each other using their CB names to find out their location, fishing luck, sea and weather conditions. We became close friends and knew some of our acquaintances only by their CB names. We'd tell each other where we were fishing-by the Whistler (the buoy a mile off-shore), the Bell (south of the Jaws, the entry from the bay to the ocean), the Tower (Samoa's water tower, visible for miles out), the Stacks (LP's smokestack), or Table Bluff (the farthest south we'd fish).

All of us will remember the sign on a pole at PG&E park, King Salmon, that said "Chicken Point." We'd stop there and look across to the Jaws to see how rough it was. If it was too rough, we'd chicken out and go home!

Everyone will also remember Johnny and his dog who would ride on the hood of his jeep. At Johnny's Boat Landing, Johnny would take us back and forth to our cars. There were lots of fish in those days-we'd dump (unload) 200 boats a day there.

We quit fishing in 1985 and sold our boat when there weren't as many fish.

But today we're remembering all the names. I found my list, and it brought back many happy memories. Many of these people have sold their boats and no longer fish. How many names do you remember?

Albacore, Blue Lady, Blue Lake, Blue Rose, Becky, Bob Cat, Big Red, Black Snapper, Bob O Link, Bar Fly, Big George, Billy Goat, Big Trouble, Cutty Sack, Charlie Brown, Cock Robin, Creoko, Calva, Chop Chop, Drag Line, Drifter, Dallas, Double D, Don Boy, Easy Bill, Easy Rider, El Paso, Flamigo, Francis B, Forked Horn, Fat Albert, Firefly.

Gentle Ben, Gunny Sack, Green Horn, Gypsy, Grey Fox, Honda Man, Honda Girl, Hey Boy, Howdie, Ham Bone, Hermit, Happy Bottoms, Houseboat Hanna, Hawkeye, High Hopes, Hobo, Jackpot, Kay Jer, Lady K, Lazy W, Lin Lee, Little Boy Blues, Little Gem, Mary Ann, Mandy O, Mama Goose, Marlena.

Nut Buster, Night Crawler, Peg Leg, Peter Rabbit, Pack Rat, Pappa Bear, Queen B, Rambler, Red Fox, Sail Fish, Sunflower, Scorpio, Sea Wolf, Strawberry, Sue Sue, Sweet Pea, Slo Mo, Small Fry, Shakey Jake, Sea Hawk, Skeeter, Stargo, Tony the Tiger, Waterloo, Walrus, Windbag, Yellow Rose.

One-time article Copyright 1998 by Humboldt Senior Resource Center.