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bajasammy
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Our fishing is limited to the Bay at Estero Beach, but there's an amazing variety of fishies in there! My favorite to catch has been the bonefish,
and to eat corbina or halibut.
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coconaco
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the fish I love to hate - BIG PARGO (colorado and dog tooth)
for sushi- albacore
for fighting- the whole jack family,pargo, WSB, log barracuda, TUNA
for eating- yellowtail, dorado, snappers, parrot fish, groupers, ling cod, sculpin, halibut
and the fish I can relate to - the COCONACO
THE MINNOW must be lost!!!!!
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Von
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the one I had whenh i was a kid!@
READY SET.....................
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Frank
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Ive never met a fish I didnt like, but Im really partial to pelagics.
Get on the boat with the whole day ahead of you. Make some bait, and head for the numbers you researched last night on the web.
Start looking for temp breaks, and any flotsam in the water. Get in a fishy area. Outriggers are folded out and the jigs go in. Everybody is on the
look out for a sign, any sign.
The right rigger pops, and that sound that you hear in your sleep makes your heart race.HOOK UP!!!!! Push the throttles forward to take the slack out
as the crew sets the hook. Your on, that big angry billfish is heading for the horizon, the fight is on.
Ahhh dont even get me started on kelp patty fishing, fishing the iron, or baiting a billfish. I wont be able to sleep as it is. 
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David K
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CORBINA!!!
Great eating and catch it in the surf all around Baja!
[Edited on 1-23-2007 by David K]
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AmoPescar
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My Favorite fish to EAT...
is probably Monkfish, aka...Poor Man's Lobster. I enjoy it best when it's been grilled over a hot mesquite fire.
after that is the very yummy Wahoo
or another favorite...Seared Ahi
My favorite to CATCH...
is probably a good sized...Yellowfin Tuna
But...you cant beat catching any good fighting fish on light tackle, either from a boat or wading into the warm water on a Baja beach.
AMO PESCAR = LOVE TO FISH
[Edited on 1-23-2007 by AmoPescar]
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dean miller
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White sea bass
Generally speared by spearfishermen, seldon seen never speared by late model tube sucking bubble blowers.
sdm
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Skipjack Joe
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Capt. George
bonefish on the flats of the lower Florida Keys...
stalking, hunting and fishing, and what a regal fish it is! |
I'm with Captn George on this one.
The second most enjoyable experience is flyfishing the spring creeks in Montana/Idaho for rainbows. There's a lot of similarities to bonefish.
Beautiful surroundings. Requires a good knowledge of entomology. Matching the hatch. Technically challenging and a lot of fun.
Bluegills on poppers is a blast. That should be starting in about a month or two.
In Baja? Beach fishing, when it's good can be as good as it gets. Sight fishing is the best. I suppose a jack crevalle from the beach, or a
yellowtail, or a rooster is about as good as it gets.
But there are so many other competitors you normally wouldn't consider. Ladyfish on a flyrod is a hoot. Making bait at dawn is a real high for me,
often surpassing bigger game later in the day. Wading the estuaries for halibut is very rewarding.
But you're right baitcast. Fishing is often the least significant part of fishing. And size and flavor play a minor role in the whole experience.
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baitcast
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Interesting mix,let me add a few more fun guys to hook and land if you can,in the 70,s and 80,s shark fishing wasn,t as popular as it is today,but for
me and friends it was the only thing,picture this 16' boat off the cal. coast,drift fishing for mako and thresher,that was as exciting has it
gets,both great jumpers,never landed any big ones,no place to put one,even if we did,very scary to have a large mako close to the boat,they had a bad
habit of jumping close in,had a thresher nearly knock me out with his tail!
On the other hand,Joe mentioned lady-fish,just a great fish on the right tackle,mullet super fun,jump like crazy,very strong and run
like hell and last but not least the lowly carp.
Carp get very large,are spooky and fun to sight fish for,most people think dough balls or corn,nothing is further from the truth,they
can be taken on a wet fly,crappie jigs,fast,strong,make long runs and are everwhere.
BAITCAST
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bajadave1
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David K
How did you get the hook into that corbinas mouth from the bottom outside, INTO the mouth?
One of my favorite's is catching large roosterfish from a kayak. Then, let them tow you up and down the beach.
Tired of marlin, too much work. Dorado are fun, lots of jumps and very strong. 
Bajadave
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Cypress
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For eating: fresh speckled trout, or maybe Triple Tail or Cobia, or grouper or Bluegill, or....
For catching, Halibut, or snapper, or speckled trout, or......
Can't really make up my mind.
Give me a few more years!!
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David K
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| Quote: | Originally posted by bajadave1
How did you get the hook into that corbinas mouth from the bottom outside, INTO the mouth?
One of my favorite's is catching large roosterfish from a kayak. Then, let them tow you up and down the beach.
Tired of marlin, too much work. Dorado are fun, lots of jumps and very strong.
Bajadave |
Well first off, that's not my photo but it shows the corbina close up real well... secondly, the hook is actually entering his mouth normally, on the
inside... What you see is the area above the mouth opening/lip which extends downward as the corbina is a bottom feeder... like the croaker (another
great fish...
Photo of my mom with a typical double hook-up of corbina in 1966 at the bay that would later become Bahia Santa Maria.
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David K
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Corbina on the Pacific side... San Antonio del Mar, 40 years ago!
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Cypress
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Corbina look a lot like the Whiting, AKA Ground Mullet caught in the Gulf of Mexico, only larger.
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David K
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California Corbina, California King Croaker, California Whiting
(Menticirrhus undulatus) are the names given to this variety in Gene Kira's MexFish.com site (where the photo came from).... I never heard California
Whiting applied, but from what you say, people recognize its looks.
The problem with 'corbina' in the Sea of Cortes is that the name is identical in sound (in Spanish) with the 'corvina' (v & b practically the same
sound), which is a totally different fish (but also good eating).
Corvinas (orangemouth & shortfin) with a mouth in front hit on lures and corbinas, with a mouth on bottom, on bait (mussel, sand crabs, squid).
In Neil Kelly & Gene Kira's book 'The Baja Catch' the corbina is called 'Queen of the surf' and 'among the very best of seafoods' ... I couldn't
agree more!
[Edited on 1-23-2007 by David K]
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jimgrms
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damn now i want to go fishing and i want it now
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Cypress
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David K. Thanks for the fish info. They both sound good to me! One's like the
speckle trout(the Corvina), only bigger and the other is like the Ground Mullet(Corbina). Either one is a treat to catch or eat.
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pargo
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baitcast
You have come full circle on your fishing career...congratulations!. I too have done lots of fishin' been there done that for the most part.
Now...I'm justa happy camper fishing the light lines from shore over a rocky outcropping fishing the crankbaits for the likes of jacks and pargo.
Rapala now makes a deadly suspending lure...great fun!
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Skeet/Loreto
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Cabrilla
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capt. mike
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the butt fish
a fine eating specimen.............common to many of the world's waters.
formerly Ordained in Rev. Ewing\'s Church by Mail - busted on tax fraud.......
Now joined L. Ron Hoover\'s church of Appliantology
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