PETERSBURG, Alaska – A few days back, Terry Arnesen throttled up the two outboards that swung from the transom of his boat as he angled his home-away-from-home out of this town’s harbor of mostly ...

Trevor’s fish turned out to be a too-small lingcod. But Terry’s was a halibut, and soon Jan and I were cranking on similar fish. In the nervous seas, Terry’s boat pitched and yawed, and the four of us ...

Trevor Anderson, left, lands a halibut as the sun sets over Alaska's Inside Passage. Terry Arnesen, right, helps land the fish. (Dennis Anderson, Star Tribune) ...

Trevor’s fish turned out to be a too-small lingcod. But Terry’s was a halibut, and soon Jan and I were cranking on similar fish. In the nervous seas, Terry’s boat pitched and yawed, and the four of us ...

Last year, a small boat called the Sea Monkey came in second place at the Manistee County Sport Fishing Association’s Small Boat Big Fish tournament in Manistee. This year, that team took first place ...