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Pompano
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Your favorite..and LEAST favorite fish to catch?
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The Sea of Cortez contains a vast variety of fishes. Which are your favorites?...and which do you really dislike?
Here's one that I truly hate to bring aboard, but I had to a couple days ago..so I could release it as quickly as possible.
The lizardfish.
About as palatable as lutefisk.
If this ever becomes a target fish, I'm going back to golfing.
The following courtesy of Mexfish.com.
The Lizardfishes (Synodontidae): The Synodontidae or Lizardfish Family has 40 species, of which 31 are of the genus Synodus. Five of these reside in
the eastern Tropical Pacific and all five are found in Mexican waters and are known as Chiles.
The lizardfishes have slender cylindrical bodies, pointed "lizard-like" heads with large mouths that have many rows of fine teeth. They have one
dorsal fin, mid-body, and a small adipose fin along the back, large pelvic fins with eight or nine rays that are located on the abdomen behind the
pectoral fin, and a forked caudal fin. The fins are without spines and they have a straight lateral line.
Lizardfishes are sedimentary bottom dwellers found sitting motionless, perched on their pectoral fins, or buried in the sand with one eye exposed,
waiting to ambush unsuspecting prey. They are voracious predators feeding primarily on small fishes, krill, squid, and shrimp.
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[Edited on 4-4-2011 by Pompano]
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fishabductor
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My favorite fish has got to be the Wahoo...the worse is a toss up.
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To catch- Snook. To eat- believe it or not-Trigger. Worst for either- Sculpin.
All my childhood I wanted to be older. Now I\'m older and this chitn sucks.
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mike odell
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Another favorite vote for Wahoo.
Least favorite, damnedable Needlefish!
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Martinez Law; Murphy was a damn optimist!
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baitcast
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The worst is easy " the Bigmouth Bastard" of BOLA the best very tough choice but its got to be the Bluefin Tuna of Guadalupe island.
Which is just to the west of the SOC
Which is close enough.
Rob
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Anyone can catch fish in a boat but only \"El Pescador Grande\" can get them from the beach.
I hope when my time comes the old man will let me bring my rod and the water will be warm and clear.
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Iflyfish
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Gotta chime in here:
Love this "sedimentary bottom dwellers" Must find someone to apply this great metaphore to. Any ideas? Ask your tackle box, it no doubt has the
answer. Good to see you back amigo.
Iflyfishwithsedimentarybottomdwellers
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24baja
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Yellowtail best and needle fish or barracuda worst.....
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I have to defend the needlefish, as they are wonderful to eat. Blue meat that turns white when cooked. lots of bones...so to make them easy to eat,
steak them instead of filleting.
they are a blast to catch on light gear and ranger lures on the drop.
Just stay away from the teeth! I had one attack a zodiak and puncture the tube several yrs ago.
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Pompano
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Iflyfish
Gotta chime in here:
Love this "sedimentary bottom dwellers" Must find someone to apply this great metaphore to. Any ideas? Ask your tackle box, it no doubt has the
answer. Good to see you back amigo.
Iflyfishwithsedimentarybottomdwellers |
Good thought there, iflyfish...that term 'sedimentary bottom dwellers' reminds me of an old Baja amigo, Jake who once long ago referred to folks he
disliked as 'bottomfish and reloads'.
Being somewhat a recluse, Jake pretty much included all of mankind into that category. 
His favorite fish was cabrilla..and his least favorite was sculpin.
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24baja
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| Quote: | Originally posted by fishabductor
I have to defend the needlefish, as they are wonderful to eat. Blue meat that turns white when cooked. lots of bones...so to make them easy to eat,
steak them instead of filleting.
they are a blast to catch on light gear and ranger lures on the drop.
Just stay away from the teeth! I had one attack a zodiak and puncture the tube several yrs ago.
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I had no idea you could eat them......maybe we will try one someday. Thanks fishabductor!
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Pompano
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The needlefish flesh changing color when cooked remnds me of green ling cod...??
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Cypress
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My choice of worst fish is the hardhead catfish. My favorite? Snapper or grouper! No! Speckled trout! Or maybe cobia? Redfish? Halibut! Heck, just
can't make up my mind on the favorite.
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Sirena
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Trumpet fish....
Jilly
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tiotomasbcs
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Sculpin as a Fav and then despised because of poison spines!! I have never seen them in Baja Sur, however. Anyone else? I have stepped on a
Pufferfish, even tho one adorns my house as an artistic object! Life is just as weird! Tio
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fishabductor
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Pompano
The needlefish flesh changing color when cooked remnds me of green ling cod...?? |
Cabazon also have green/blue flesh that turns white...yummy!
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fishabductor
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| Quote: | Originally posted by tiotomasbcs
Sculpin as a Fav and then despised because of poison spines!! I have never seen them in Baja Sur, however. Anyone else? I have stepped on a
Pufferfish, even tho one adorns my house as an artistic object! Life is just as weird! Tio |
I have caught a Scorpion Fish on the eastcape's shallow reefs. It is a variety of the sculpin, the spines are extremely poisioness, but the meat is
delicious.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorpaenidae
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Cypress
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tiotomasbcs, Yea, you can catch sculpin in the Sea of Cortez.
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Skipjack Joe
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That's what I like about kids:
They don't have a least favorite fish.
I can remember when a pufferfish was a prized catch. And the barracuda we caught at Pt. Escondido were the talk of the playground for weeks after
coming back home. And the needlefish we got at Carmen on the only day it didn't blow looked so fierce and exotic, especially after I told him how
sharp and dangerous their teeth were. And the excitement of looking down from the Pt Escondido pier and seeing a trumpetfish spear his shiny
kastmaster.
So there you have it: an inverted pyramid.
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mulegemichael
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scorpionfish are most certainly my least favorite after seeing what they can do...an amigo i've worked beside for several decades as a ranger was
staying at our place a couple of years ago in mulege...doing a little jigging when not trolling for dorado....he hauled this little red fish in and
before i could stay stop he'd been stuck...his hand swelled up the size of a large zucchini!..nasty stuff..he was trolling feathers the next day, tho
dyslexia is never having to say you\'re yrros.
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For eating , Sculpin are my favorite although baby Calicos are delicious also. Bull Bass not so good. Any of the deepwater, 100 fathom plus
bottomfish are generally a good bet.
Catching, locally, Scooters (Barracuda) although I do not care to eat them. Right time of the year when they have roe, the roe is DELICIOUS fried in
butter.
Best catching for me is not sportfishing but rather a one-pole Albacore stop of three or four hours.
The worst case of fish poisoning I ever had was working the tank on a black skippy stop and getting stuck with an anchovy spine. Had those long black,
really hurt bad veins running up from a grotesquely huge hand and lower arm. Just junk the anchovy had picked up while hanging out in the tank I
guess.
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