Journos go fishing

What is it with media types and fish? The LA Weekly's Marc Cooper always sounds happiest when he's blogging about being on the sand or a pier somewhere. Now today, Times columnist Steve Lopez (pictured) tries to grab a few trout for the Outdoors section, and the section's assistant editor, Gary Polakovic, comes out as a longtime angler who laments "one of the dirty little secrets about fishing off Southern California: The great fish — the ones you have seen in vintage photos, the ones capable of pushing man and gear to the breaking point — are largely gone from our shores."