viabaja
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Shell Island
Again for all you shell island fans!! Weather last week was good. Fishing soso. Gill nets up and down the beach. Beach was deserted except for Mexican
fisherman. Had rain in Percebu. As always, beer was cold. Mas tarde.
Note new pix of Laguna Percebu opening
www.viabaja.com/lluvia.jpg
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[Edited on 11-4-2010 by viabaja]
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Pompano
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Shell Island?...oh, my God.
1 2 3 4........and waiting....
I do what the voices in my tackle box tell me.
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David K
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Thanks Chris... Must be their season to sweep up all the fishies with nets? Was there twice in July, and their camp was deserted, no nets.
Any photos?
Here's a couple from July 18 trip:
South
North
The Baja peninsula, as seen from Shell Island
[Edited on 11-2-2010 by David K]
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David K
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You're funny Roger!
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Pompano
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Thanks..I think? 
I do what the voices in my tackle box tell me.
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Barry A.
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Where's Shell Island? 
Barry
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capt. mike
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it is on shell beach.
south of san felipe some place i think.
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David K
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| Quote: | Originally posted by capt. mike
it is on shell beach.
south of san felipe some place i think. |
Actually the beach (no name) is on the island! 
'Shell Beach' is where Russ lives next to Punta Chivato! 
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I just don't like the guy there at the toll booth taking my 20 bucks to enter.
Old people are like the old cars, made of some tough stuff. May show a little rust, but good as gold on the inside.
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David K
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| Quote: | Originally posted by mcfez
I just don't like the guy there at the toll booth taking my 20 bucks to enter. |
Yah, and the hot springs are always underwater there!
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viabaja
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Dave, if I can find any I'll post pix of Mexican gill nets. Also, some pendejo put barbed wire across the north end of the salt flats. Needless to
say, it's removed! That is a major highway between Santa Maria and Percebu!
Note on shell beach - watch the buried metal anchors, posts, metal rods, etc, at the top of the beach that hold the gill nets. Those are tire busters
and oil pan rippers. One may not see them in time, especially at nite! There were nets even down where you camp.
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BajaWarrior
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Thanks viabaja for the beach clean-up. That IS our main thoroghfare from our campo to yours.
I've seen plenty of the gill nets too on the island, they set them right in front of our house too...
Haven't had a bad trip yet....
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BajaWarrior
Thanks viabaja for the beach clean-up. That IS our main thoroghfare from our campo to yours.
I've seen plenty of the gill nets too on the island, they set them right in front of our house too... |
I second that, guys. Took the salt flats road from Santa Maria to Shell Beach-Shell Island-Percebu a few weeks ago and didn't notice the barbed wire,
but did encounter the “land mines" on the beach. It reminded me of the late 1970's when the Yaqui Indians were long lining for red snapper. They
would go out with 25-30 boats, leaving their anchors and/or large metal rods on the beach until they came back in the late afternoon. The difference
back then was driving on the beach meant you were usually in a sandrail or a 4X4. Not too many single person (ATC's back then) vehicles back then on
the beach.
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capt. mike
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man that was phunnie!!!
shell beach....my back yard's garden is full of shells picked from there - the Chivato one, we hop 5 minutes from Serenidad while the girlz hunt
shells the guys lounge on the pista drinkin BMs or RBs.
the other shell beach is close to percebu i think. We drove by it once pre running for the SF 250.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by capt. mike
man that was phunnie!!!
shell beach....my back yard's garden is full of shells picked from there - the Chivato one, we hop 5 minutes from Serenidad while the girlz hunt
shells the guys lounge on the pista drinkin BMs or RBs.
the other shell beach is close to percebu i think. We drove by it once pre running for the SF 250. |
who named it "shell island?"
who named the other place "shell beach?
do the locals use these names? if i ask a local for directions to "shell beach," will they look have any idea what i am talking about?
inquiring minds want to know.
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David K
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| Quote: | Originally posted by capt. mike
man that was phunnie!!!
shell beach....my back yard's garden is full of shells picked from there - the Chivato one, we hop 5 minutes from Serenidad while the girlz hunt
shells the guys lounge on the pista drinkin BMs or RBs.
the other shell beach is close to percebu i think. We drove by it once pre running for the SF 250. |
You know that giant wall map you sell?
It is an island on it.
Here's the satellite image:
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capt. mike
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haha, DK - don't you know my tongue is firmly in cheek??
too much fun.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by mcfez
I just don't like the guy there at the toll booth taking my 20 bucks to enter. |
Freaking funny as hell Mcfez!! You are muy chistoso....I love it.
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David K
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Do I get a per-centage of the take? 
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