Poor Adam, I told him the rule on my boat is that the first time you go fishing on my boat, you must release your first fish, no matter what it is and how big it is. Now normally I would let the guys do a quick fish for whiting, so the pain of releasing a good fish is minimised, but hey I had Adam on board, so we headed straight to a semi decent spot, which I call "Harley" as we normally catch quite a few Harlequin fish there. Anyway, the look on Adam's face was priceless when a good size Baldy came up first drop and just had to be released to keep the fish gods happy. Turned out it was a good move as Adam put us to shame for the rest of the trip with some good fish. The fish gods obviously smiled on him on what otherwise was a very ordinary bottom bashing day.