I'm sure that this has been asked and answered sometime in the recent past, but indulge me....am I catching yellow fin or yellow tail tuna in the Sea
of Cortez? I know practially nada about fish, and believe that I have heard both terms.
Last November I caught several yellow "something" tuna, just north of Cabo Pulmo in the Sea of Cortez, and they were good - sashimi, carpaccio, and
bacon-wrapped steaks on the grill. Would just like to know what the correct name is. That way, when I brag to the girlfriend about my fishing
prowess, she is duly impressed.
I do hope the tuna & dorado are back in the east cape neighborhood in late November when we go down for a visit.
Norbert kinda blew out the fishing when I was there in October. Didn't seem to impair the sangre maria consumption or that of Pacificos, so all is
well.
It is probably Yellowtail. Lots of people confuse it with Tuna but it is actually in the Jack family. You can make sashimi with it and it is great on
the grill.
Go to the archives to the Mulege Yellowtail tournament and you will see lots of photos of Yellowtail.
Rog, if you caught em around Cabo Pulmo they were probably Yellowfin tuna. There is a permanent "honey hole" for tuna and other fish just under a mile
from Cabo Pulmo. Fishing there is controversial because the National Park (no fishing zone) extends 4.7 km from the shore at that point. You might
have caught barillete negro but you wouldn't eat it. You also might have caught some Mexican Bonito but you would recognize the light pink meat to be
other than the deep, dark red/purple of YFT. My bet is tuna if you ate it and plan to go get some more.
Originally posted by woody in ob
Yellowtail is the best fighting fish, pound for pound, in the ocean.
Agree with that woody. Jurel are very powerful and they can sustain that strength for a long time. Yellowfin can generate a lot of power in bursts
but they can't sustain it like the jacks can.
Great post, good pictures, and, discussion. I hope this does not constitute hijacking a thread, but....
Ask 10 fishermen, and they will give you 10 different answers on the pound-for-pound argument (wasn't there a thread about this a while back? Or was
that about the speed of fish? We may need a Scripps oceanographer to settle this).
For example, I was on my brother's boat earlier this year for the Make A Wish Tuna Challenge out of San Diego (No, we did not win... Except in the
beer drinking/giving money to a good cause category).
Anyhoo, when we were trolling along the 5-mile bank with the Porpoise schools, searching for Yellowfin (we did catch some. People, please, we caught
Yellowfin, NOT Porpoises), I snagged a Sunfish. Yes, that is right.
That mother-#&$%*! (sorry kids, turn away, Daddy is putting bad words out over the internet), that calls itself a fish, but normally floats, at
the surface, on its side, looking like it is an argument against Darwinism (which I do believe in, but, Sunfish make ya wonder), and scares away the
REAL FISH when he/she hover with their friends under kelp paddies (I am beginning to rant), went straight to the bottom of the world once I had reeled
it in close enough to the boat that its retarded (sorry, mentally challenged) soul understood it was hooked.
Granted, it probably weighed 80-90 pounds, but that, um, fish, went down sooooo fast. My brother was laughing his head off, until the line was almost
gone, and it snapped, and he realized... I was using his new custom pole, reel, etc.
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