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EMAM
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Fishing on the Baja!
Went out with Congo's Awesome Fishing Charters, out of Los Barriles for an amazing day on the water.
Does it get any better looking than this?!?!
Got a few big Durados
One Mako which was some of the best, most tender meat we've ever eaten in our lives. Breaded in Corn Meal and lightly fried up
And one 150lb Marlin!! What a great day on the water!
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fishbuck
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Complete photoshop job! The pics look like postcards you got down there. And the boat in the first pic captures everything that is wrong with
Cabo/EastCape area.
But I would love to fish out of that boat. Take out the chair though. I fight standup!
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4baja
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first rate pics, thanks
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TonyC
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OMG.....WOW....those are pics. are sick. Get ready to catch it for in "THE" baja.... been there done that. Thanks for sharing those excellent
pictures. That Mako shot is awesome.
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Skipjack Joe
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Great pictures EMAM! The colors on the dorado are amazing. And accurate.
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Natalie Ann
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As always, really good pictures EMAM. Tell me about that shark... was he trying to jump into the boat or what?
And yes, that dorado is one beautiful fish pix!
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bajajudy
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Great fish pix
Looks like a good time was had by all except the fish.
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Subastador
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Did any of you guys stop to think that this was a great April fool's joke!
I'm either suspicious, but looks to me as if the rest of you bought it
Hook, Line, & Sinker.
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EMAM
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| Quote: | Originally posted by fishbuck
Complete photoshop job! The pics look like postcards you got down there
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Which picture do you think is photoshoped? I can provide the RAW Images if you think I cut and pasted. 
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EMAM
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For the Mako, I'll admit that I did photoshop the fishing line out of the picture.
You can still see a bit of it in the lower left coming up from the edge of the boat. I thought the line looked stupid, but the image is acurate.
The Marlin was jumping out of the water beside the boat, and nope, no April Fools Joke
[Edited on 1-02-2008 by EMAM]
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EMAM
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As most photographers do, you only show the best of the many pictures you take while out shooting.
I did just that and only posted the one shot of the Marlin that didnt have the edge of the boat in it so it just looked perfect. I was actually
leaning my entire body way out off the edge of the boat to get that shot and not have any of the boat in the image.
Here are a few more that still have the edge of the boat in the image. This is rarely shown as most photographers only want you to see what they want
you to see.
My camera will shoot 8 frames per second, so I probably have 50 images of this thing fighting beside the boat. The way I look at it, if you have to
get the image, digital is free once you buy the compact flash cards, shoot away
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Great pics, like being there. Thanks for posting.
Iflyfish
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capt. mike
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shouldn't "miles" be contracted?
nice boat. can you post the contact info? he'd be a good one for junkets.
i have a few attys i need to get really seasick.
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Hemingway reincarnate???
I'm interested on your take. You feel good about the taking of important apex animals. Is this for your own pleasure or to fuel your adventures for
your fans"?
I just think that you failed to consider your physical contribution to Baja.
You are obviously quite adept at locating and photographing wildlife. Can't THAT be your forte'? 
Why would you sacrifice these important dwindling species for fish and chips when your photos are all you need.
Save the sharks!
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Save Baja!
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Roberto
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Mako sharks among 10 most endangered species
http://www.extravalue.com/shark.shtml
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Natalie Ann
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| Quote: | Originally posted by EMAM
Here are a few more that still have the edge of the boat in the image. This is rarely shown as most photographers only want you to see what they want
you to see.
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An interesting story about that kind of thing, EMAM.
After one trip we had a lot of aerial images of Baja. I worked dutifully in Photoshop to edit out the airplane wings on each image - I wanted that
'perfect shot'.
I sent those images to mi piloto and explained the delay (it takes awhile to edit out all those wings)... and he wrote back, "Gee, too bad. Pilots
really like to see that wing in the picture. Really nice if you can get some engine, too."
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Sallysouth
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Awesome pics.Do you catch and release your marlin ?Guess not.
Happiness is just a Baja memory away...
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wow - great pictures - thanks for posting!
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Sharksbaja
I'm interested on your take. You feel good about the taking of important apex animals. Is this for your own pleasure or to fuel your adventures for
your fans"?
I just think that you failed to consider your physical contribution to Baja.
You are obviously quite adept at locating and photographing wildlife. Can't THAT be your forte'?
Why would you sacrifice these important dwindling species for fish and chips when your photos are all you need.
Save the sharks!
Save the billfish!
Save Baja!
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In defense of EMAM...As I recall he/she is new to Baja and may not realize the importance of catch and release on threatened species. If you must
throw stones, throw them at the crew of the Awesome for allowing that Mako to be killed. If anyone should have a keen interest in preserving the
fishery it should be them. But as we all know, there probably isn't a charter boat in Baja that wouldn't have killed that shark.
I know some guys who commercially fish sharks off of Magdalena Bay. On my last trip up that way they were taking as many as 20 sharks a day. Mostly
mako and blues. And including juveniles just a few feet long. My point being...one dead mako on a sport boat doesn't hold a candle to the commercial
harvest.
In synopsis, sport fishing crews should be the ones who draw the line when it comes to taking threatened species and enforcing legal limits on other
gamefish like dorado and tuna. And regarding that marlin...if it was indeed killed, is that not a legal catch in Mexico?
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Dang! I didn't know that about snappin turtles. Now I feel bad about eatin em, but it's been like 20 years ago. I remember they were delicious.
Different parts had different flavors which some claimed resembled pork, beef, chicken etc. Cajun style snappin turtle etoufee was out of this world.
All my childhood I wanted to be older. Now I\'m older and this chitn sucks.
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