bill erhardt
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Netting Dorado in Loreto
Yesterday I came across this old wooden tender trailing what appeared to be a gill net about 35 miles outside the marina at Loreto and 6 miles NNE of
Isla Catalana where dorado are streaming up the Sea of Cortez. I trolled around the tender/net and caught a couple of 10 -12 pound peanuts.
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I was targeting marlin, but would have gladly accepted one of the big bulls that are now in the area. My total for the day, however, was 3 dorado,
none over 12#. Another private boater fishing a little further south caught some 35 pound class fish. I saw one other boat fishing the area, the
first I have seen in 5 or 6 trips looking for pelagics. It was a private panga skippered by the redoubtable Andres Cota. I told them about the
netter. They headed that way and later got the skunk out of the boat. Who knows how big those fish are by this morning. This peanut was not at all
intimidated by a marlin feather.
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bill erhardt
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When I spotted this tortuga yesterday afternoon I at first thought it was dead. It was only sound asleep, however. Probably gorged on the jellyfish
abundant in the area and sleeping it off.
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that boat looks like a future ship wreck!
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If I can't be fishing in Baja right now, I'm glad you are !!
Thanks for sharing your great pictures and stories !!
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Like being there! Great Pics amigo!
Iflyfish
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Thanks again for sharing Bill. You are living the life that's for sure!
Ken
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Thanks for the photos. I gather that it is illegal to net Dorado.
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Russ
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I am probably wrong because I just haven't been able to understand what the regulations really are, but I always thought that it was illegal to target
dorado for commercial sales. Then along came Norma and the sale of the by-catch was legal. Of course if there isn't any regulation enforcement what
does it mater? Very sad!
Bahia Concepcion where life starts...given a chance!
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Blue Marlin Jig
Bill,
Your getting alot of mileage on that blue marlin jig
I seem to see to that in alot of your images..
Democracy is like two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.
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bill erhardt
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LaTijereta....... Yes, bright blue and black with maybe some white, flying fish colors, is good for both marlin and dorado, although the dorado are
spitting up squid at the boat right now. That one is made my ALlure in Mexico City. Arturo Locht of ALlure came up with the original petrolero,
brown, black, silver and orange, color scheme. Yesterday I caught 13 dorado, about half on a cedar plug I had back in the center hoping for
yellowfin. The biggest of the day, a 34 pounder, took a petrolero.
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bill erhardt
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Bloody Decks
It is good to tranquilize a dorado intended for the table before you bring him aboard, and then pop him right in the fishbox. Sometimes it doesn't
work out like that, however. This 25 pounder that bit on a cedar plug made a bit of a mess.
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A good spray of cheap tequila in the gills before you put it in the boat will settle your frisky dorado right down quickly.
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bill erhardt
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Damn! I thought I was supposed to drink that shot of tequila.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Russ
A good spray of cheap tequila in the gills before you put it in the boat will settle your frisky dorado right down quickly. |
Is that after you tell him to hold still ?
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A captain I fished with in Zihuatenejo used beer. Just poured it in the fish's mouth, over the gills, and then put the docile dorado in the fish box.
These were big dorado, too.
But on one fish it didn't work; it jumped the gaff and got loose in the boat. Exciting. 
I'll be out tomorrow, fishing in a rumored Governor's Cup tourney. Officially (I saw the poster), sign up is today, fishing tomorrow, but there is a
rumor that it's been postponed. They seemed to be setting up some kind of an event at the marina this morning. Either way, we fish.
Maybe the rumor was an attempt to limit competition?
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LaTijereta
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"rumor" Me thinks so...
Democracy is like two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.
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