baitcast
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Pre GPS,fish-finder and other gadgets.
How did they find that rock pile,ridge,drop-off what ever?
The real good spots were handed down in families for years but there had to be that first guy who found that spot the first time.
PaPa Fernandez promised me one day he would show me one of his rock piles when I got a boat,I could not afford to hire him or his boy for a
trip,two years later with my tin boat in the water it was off we went to the promised land
Just south of the island we stopped he said this is the spot I looked around and saw nothing that would suggest anything different about
this spot
I had a few sierra in the boat for bait,in a matter of minutes we were hooked up,chunk baits, nothing fancy pinto,carbilla and a totutuva
maybe an hour,big feed in camp that nite,the old man also told me about very large grouper made that rock pile home,really!! but that is another story
later that nite I asked him how he found that spot he just smiled and told me to keep it to myself,I looked for that spot many times in the following
years and found it maybe three times how did they do that?
Rob
Anyone can catch fish in a boat but only \"El Pescador Grande\" can get them from the beach.
I hope when my time comes the old man will let me bring my rod and the water will be warm and clear.
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fishabductor
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| Quote: | Originally posted by baitcast
How did they find that rock pile,ridge,drop-off what ever?
The real good spots were handed down in families for years but there had to be that first guy who found that spot the first time.
PaPa Fernandez promised me one day he would show me one of his rock piles when I got a boat,I could not afford to hire him or his boy for a
trip,two years later with my tin boat in the water it was off we went to the promised land
Just south of the island we stopped he said this is the spot I looked around and saw nothing that would suggest anything different about
this spot
I had a few sierra in the boat for bait,in a matter of minutes we were hooked up,chunk baits, nothing fancy pinto,carbilla and a totutuva
maybe an hour,big feed in camp that nite,the old man also told me about very large grouper made that rock pile home,really!! but that is another story
later that nite I asked him how he found that spot he just smiled and told me to keep it to myself,I looked for that spot many times in the following
years and found it maybe three times how did they do that?
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The key is to look at the water surface texture, slicks, updrafts, rips..etc they tell the full story as to what is happening below the surface. I
have a fishfinder but rarely use it anymore as I know roughly where the features are, once I get close I just watch for the signs.
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monoloco
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The locals around here, for the most part, still don't use GPS, they find their known fishing spots by triangulating with landmarks on shore.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by monoloco
The locals around here, for the most part, still don't use GPS, they find their known fishing spots by triangulating with landmarks on shore.
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baitcast
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Just a thought if you didn,t know that the spot was there to began with what good would triangulating with landmarks do you? your speaking of know
fishing spots.
You are fishing in a very remote area no locals around.
Rob
Anyone can catch fish in a boat but only \"El Pescador Grande\" can get them from the beach.
I hope when my time comes the old man will let me bring my rod and the water will be warm and clear.
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monoloco
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Well, they've been fishing around here for a couple hundred years so they've had ample time to figure it out by trial and error.
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baitcast
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Ya I guess a couple of hundred years should be enough
But I,ve fished in many places down there where there were no locals around and had to start from scratch? both with and without a
boat,I can read the beach pretty good,if there,s islands and points I do ok but everything in between so so
[Edited on 3-23-2011 by baitcast]
Anyone can catch fish in a boat but only \"El Pescador Grande\" can get them from the beach.
I hope when my time comes the old man will let me bring my rod and the water will be warm and clear.
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TheBajaKid
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I remember as a kid my dad and another friend would bring out pics that they took of the coastline trying to find a reef they had caught black sea
bass at. They would find this 180 foot high spot in 300 feet of water year after year sometimes it did take a few trys. The good old days before GPS! when it took some know how.
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Timo1
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Juan in BA drives me NUTZZZZ doing just that....stops the boat and says fish here...In the middle of nowhere
sold out and got out !!!
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baitcast
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Learning to read the water be it lake,river,stream or the big pond takes a life-time of study and it only comes to those with the well to learn to be
really sucessful,the leaning curve is slow but fun for those who fish for sport for those who fish for a living its a MUST
My father could read lakes like pro,he used the shoreline as a guide,he was very good.
Rob
Anyone can catch fish in a boat but only \"El Pescador Grande\" can get them from the beach.
I hope when my time comes the old man will let me bring my rod and the water will be warm and clear.
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luckyman
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i've had the pleasure of fishing with some good captains out of la ribera, and they have generally been willing to show me the 'marks' they use to
triangulate known fishing hotspots....i suppose those marks were passed on over the years through families, friends, etc...pretty cool most of the
guys there would prefer using that system than a gps.
the other thing that blows me away is the ability of some of those guys to spot fish or other irregularities in the water. i suppose it comes from
years spent on the water, but when my buddy victor spots dorado ahead of the boat while trolling and we hook up seconds later, i'm usually left
scratching my head wondering where he saw them. once i spotted a good sized dorado heading for a trolled lure from way outside the spread, and i was
amazed at the speed of the blue/green streak before it crushed the lure...maybe i'm looking for something too slow usually.
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