I was out there in June about 10 years ago. I fished on a party boat with about 40 other people. I guess it was worth the 50 bucks since we caught a bunch of fish and we got a nice boat ride around the harbor, but I wasn’t overly impressed. We mostly caught various species of sucker-ish bottom fish on a rented pool cue of a rod. I don’t know what type of fish they were but it wasn’t the tuna or mackeral that the first mate said we would be going to catch before i paid for it. If you go the party boat route, try to get to the docks early and catch the people from the morning trip as they get off the ship. Ask them how they did, and book a trip based on that.
We also caught a fair number of ducks, gulls, pelicans, and seals, which i guess is a pretty average day.