We go with a guide. I have taken a boat up there but found it the same price as using a guide and a whole lot easier on us. The ferry ride, moorage, gear for the trip, gas, boat stuff purchases before the trip all add up to close to using a guide. Here is our first day of fishing. The guide is the best I have fished with. His name is Bobby Kimoto of Bobby Kimoto Charters. Tell him I recommended him if anyone calls him.