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mrchuck
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Halibut, flounder are called "linguado" here.
A few caught on the bottom drifting over sandy shoals. But over in Lopez Mateos(Pacific Ocean side), this fish is a food staple, and targeted
comercially.
The fish sellers bring them over here to Los Barriles, selling the fresh caught fillets by the kilo.
Excellent table fare. Maybe the best tasting fish I have ever ate!
Saludos, mc
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baitcast
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Best eating
HI AGAIN GUYS
I,ve caught a ton of these guys along the Calif.coast and the baja pacific side north,100 miles south of EL Rosario,Punta San Carlos to be
exact,the bottom was paved with these guys and white sea bass.
We use to wade the surf and throw white jigs for the wsb and krorks,kastmasters anything shiney for the halibut.......They would hang out
just inside the kelp line and the beach.
Never have done the Alaska thing but have caught a bunch of salmon.
I will guess  shaker or maybe that was a small salmon.
Caught a few halibut in L.A.BAY.
BAITCAST
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Bajalero
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If I can butt in with my 2cents on the small halibut , aren't they called pollitos?
If you are ever in need of a fishing partner Pompano, let me know. I love catching a variety of fish and am particular to bottom fish. I almost could
care less if I ever catch another dorado again in my life.
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Pompano
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good guess...but wrong for the halibut..although right with salmon 'shakers'
Well guys, I better tell you the answer...those 'little' halibut up north...anything less than 40lbs...are called 'chickens'. Cuz they're so damn
good to eat!
I know what you mean about the surf catch...we used to fish/camp at Laguna Manuela, Long Beach-Playa Largo, near Jesus Maria and had a lot of fun
with the stripers and linguado there. Surf rigs and sand dabs, then crocodiles, kastmaster, daredevils, etc for something shinier. Good times. Got
caught once in an incoming tide and lost my dune buggy! 
A fellow fisherman is always welcome. Best fishing here right now is yellowtailing with live bait near San Marcos/Pta.Chivaot/Pta. Teresa/ Isle del
Fonso and rocky points and shoals for most everything else like snapper, cabrilla, grouper, bass, etc.
I too have caught my share of dorado...they do get old, don't they?
I do what the voices in my tackle box tell me.
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baitcast
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Favorite and mode
Nothing gets old when your fishing.........Having said that,whats your favorite fish and why?
Mine is the bluefin tuna,he,s a handsome fish,strong,very fast,and let us not forget huge,the stand-up gear record is a whopping 1015#
and the all tackle is nearly 1500#.......He does,nt waste his time jumping just hauling ass!!!!!!!
I,ve caught a few 50# class fish I can,t imagine what 500# plus must be like.
Best mode is as follows...Find some sandy beach which is loaded with big corvina...........Weapon of choice,light baitcasting or spinning and
this is a must...throw poppers or floating stickbaits,pitch it out there....pop...pop..pop.......wham!!!!!! watch the take,its a visual
thing.........water must be warm,breeze cool and you must be bearfoot
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Pompano
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Baitcast...My favorite fishing?...an easy question.
...and you know the answer. Today's...that's my favorite fishing! I've had the pleasure of fishing a lot of different species and I am still as
excited about landing a 8 oz. brook trout as a 12 ft. hammerhead. Do you freshwater fish too?
Let's see..I remember getting pretty excited about catching my first dorado and sail the same day in Acapulco, 1960. I was with my dad, an uncle and
his sons. The boat owner/skipper was a great guy and my father's buddy. I was 16 and a little like Huckleberry Finn, I suppose, because I'd
already had quite a few fishing/camping adventures. I was eager to fish and skipped a feather before we cleared the harbor and nailed a nice dorado!
I jumped off the boat when we were about 20 miles out and helped a boathand pull a huge turtle through the sterndoor. My dad made us release it and I
was a little sore until I found out that the boathand wanted to kill it and sell the meat at the docks. Guess it didn't matter too much, because lots
of other turtles were killed every day back then.
After that, we starting to troll and look for birds. I remember the boathand teaching me how to sew up a few more flying fish rigs. Then I hooked
a nice first-time sail and hooted a little I guess.. while pumping and cranking with mucho gusto. I managed to get the fish under control after some
good-natured ribbing from the rest of the crew about my vocal-style. That was a great day.
And I wish I was that thin today! Too many fish tacos?
I do what the voices in my tackle box tell me.
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baitcast
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TODAY
Today,s My favorvite........Well said.......wish I,d said that.
Fresh water you say...I was born in spokane wash.,some of my first
memories as a young boy was going creek fishing with my father in eastern wash.,northern Ida.,western Mont.
He would always say the more bush the better,he was the best poacher without peer in the state,limits meant nothing to him.
If it had fins it was fair game,keep in mind it was during the war,meat rationing and the like......In 1947 dad bought a place in northern
ida.,right on Lake pond-o-ray....spelling........If you know your freshwater up north you know of this lake.
World record rainbow 37#......Dolly varden32#....Lake trout over 40#...........you get the idea,I learned to troll,fly-fish,baitfish with
the equipment of the day,which was pretty sad compared to today.
After four years of navy I moved to Calif.,this is when I met my first fish with a forked tail and baja.
Spent 30 years inCalif. then moved back to wash.,had a nice place on a beautiful lake just outside spokane there I fished nearly everyday for
the last 15 years and making a run to baja once an a while.
But now I,m in az. and ready to go again.
I know thats a long way of saying "yes i have fished fresh water for many years"I,ve been fishing bass alot the 10 years or so both large
and small mouth but nothing compares to the salt.
BAITCAST
P.S. The eastern brook was my fathers favorite fish
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Oso
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Back East, I recall that Flounder (same or a relative of Halibut?) were sometimes called "Sand Dabs" if very small - a pound or less, and "Tailgates"
if huge (relatively speaking). Surf fishing for them with a sliding egg sinker and single hook was enjoyable, but my second favorite night-time
activity was gigging them in the shallows of the NC sounds, along the Outer Banks or the flats of the Florida Keys. If you had a John boat and
propane lantern on a pole, you could haul in a lot. If not, then wading with a lantern was fun too.
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mrchuck
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Horace and Helen Hart. From Sand Point, Idaho. Maybe that is(was) the name of your old friend. They were a legend here, and in '74 did live in their
trailer at "coyote bay". Later years, due to too many people camping close by, they moved to "rattlesnake beach" which is almost next to the Tripui
trailer park, actually a mile South, and this became their Baja place in 1988. At that time he was 78, and still active and even diving off the puerto
escondito pier(38' deep) to get fallen in fishing tackle that people dropped.
He would of been 95 by today.
Saludos,,,,,,,mc
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Pompano
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MrChuck.....
It's great to reflect back on Baja people and the events that transpired around them. We sure had some great campfire talks back in those early
Coyote Bay days...no TV, no radio to speak of, certainly no Internet,...only books and good conversations around our evening campfires discussing the
explorations we had made that day. I met scores of early Baja adventurers...the first Baja Nomads I suppose.
Los Barriles....There was another character at Coyote Bay that I remember going from here to Los Barriles, I believe. His name was Cliff Dove and his
wife was Kathy. He was a good fisherman, but I never went out much with him because he smoked incessantly. Kind of a handyman. Don't recall ever
seeing him again, but heard that he was also a Idaho lake country person in the summers..somewhere near the Hart's, probably. Maybe he is still there
at Los Barriles?
Now to get back to some fish ID...
How about this one?
I do what the voices in my tackle box tell me.
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cnelsoni
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nice northern pike
Pompano is holding a northern pike. Lot's of those in Minnesota where I grew up. I also live in Concepcion bay at Posada. Are we neighbors?
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