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| Quote: | Originally posted by Santiago
I don't want to accuse Pesky of lying, but clearly this photo is not a current one. Dude is wearing, and proudly I might add, WHITE shoes outside the
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Funny you would notice that, he actually cleaned them up before the picture. I think they were still brown on the inside from pulling that monster in
over the transom and watching the back dip down into the water.
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On a more serious note; what do you do with a fish like that? How does one dress out such a huge fish? I'm pretty sure my 4" Rapala knife in the anus
up to the gill, grab the lower jaw and rip out the guts, slice the blood line and clean it out with the back of the thumb under cold stream water is
not gonna work on this fish.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Santiago
On a more serious note; what do you do with a fish like that? How does one dress out such a huge fish? I'm pretty sure my 4" Rapala knife in the anus
up to the gill, grab the lower jaw and rip out the guts, slice the blood line and clean it out with the back of the thumb under cold stream water is
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Rigo is a commercial fisherman and has had a really rough winter trying to get enough fish to financially take care of his family so this was a really
welcome relief. The fish actually brought 45 pesos per kilo so it really helped to buy gasoline for the days he came up empty.
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Cut around the anus, then go under the jaw to the to the collar bone both sides. Slice between collar bone and gut cavity,clip the gills, it all
slides out. The 4' blade might be a bit short for a good fillet
"Never teach a pig to sing it frustrates you and annoys the pig" - W.C.Fields
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Congrats to Rigo on a great catch!
I have never had the ability to determine the difference between the Gulf groper and the California Black Sea Bass currently renamed Giant Sea Bass-
In your opinion what is this fish?
As you recall from years gone by I could care less about drowning worms but there was a time I did make a dent in the BSB population of SoCal and a
number of groper in SOC.
During that time I had a number of conversations with John Fitch, the great SoCal F&G expert on the BSB. John indicated according to his research
a 300 pound fish was 90 to 100 years old. When I speared my last big BSB which was over 300 pounds I looked down on it and thought "Abe Lincoln was
alive when this fish was hatched." After that I only speared one more BSB
I look at Rigo's fish and and recognize that it is possibly 100 years old & 100 years ago Pancho Villa was forcefully expelling my family from
Mexico. For me it puts the age of the fish in perspective.
Please extend a hearty congratulations on a catching a good and great fish
SDM
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45 pesos a kilo!!!!.....that's damn good dinero for a big ol fish like that...who woulda thunk it?
dyslexia is never having to say you\'re yrros.
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Fish of a lifetime, congrats to your friend Jim.
Keep your eyes on the road, and your hands upon the wheel!
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Great report Jim. Thanks for sharing and hope the locals do better this year!
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| Quote: | Originally posted by dean miller
Congrats to Rigo on a great catch!
I have never had the ability to determine the difference between the Gulf groper and the California Black Sea Bass currently renamed Giant Sea Bass-
In your opinion what is this fish?
As you recall from years gone by I could care less about drowning worms but there was a time I did make a dent in the BSB population of SoCal and a
number of groper in SOC.
During that time I had a number of conversations with John Fitch, the great SoCal F&G expert on the BSB. John indicated according to his research
a 300 pound fish was 90 to 100 years old. When I speared my last big BSB which was over 300 pounds I looked down on it and thought "Abe Lincoln was
alive when this fish was hatched." After that I only speared one more BSB
I look at Rigo's fish and and recognize that it is possibly 100 years old & 100 years ago Pancho Villa was forcefully expelling my family from
Mexico. For me it puts the age of the fish in perspective.
Please extend a hearty congratulations on a catching a good and great fish
SDM |
Sam, I think this is a Itajara Grouper or Mero Guasa. The back ray fins do not match up exactly with a BSB but that may be only individual
differences. It also had some really pretty blue splotches around the gill area and onto the stomach which was very unusual. My avatar on
Bloodydecks is a Baja Grouper and that fish was considered big at 160, but this monster was twice that size. We wanted to hoist it up but broke the
fish weighing station, so had to settle for the tailgate shot.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Santiago
I don't want to accuse Pesky of lying, but clearly this photo is not a current one. Dude is wearing, and proudly I might add, WHITE shoes outside the
acceptable Memorial Day-to-Labor Day period. |
Too funny
Mas Pacifico
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