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San Nicholas Island
The last two days out here have been perfect. warm and sunny! last week was 30-40 knot winds mixed with some rain.....
so after work i took the fishing pole and scoured the southeast side for exactly one buttermouth perch. i left him to fend for himself against the
elephant seals and sea lions. i did see dozens of green abalone on the rocks from 3-9", but they are protected....
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the end of the day from the jobsite looking west. it is pretty awesome up here with a 360 degree view of the ocean.
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i found this old rusting landing craft after fishing while dodging seals on the beach. the wave in the background is about chest high, but getting a
board out here is nearly impossible....
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same beach from another angle. i really like how the algae and the layers of the rock look here.
anyway, more next time.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by woody with a view
i found this old rusting landing craft after fishing while dodging seals on the beach. the wave in the background is about chest high, but getting a
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Very nice shot.
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I worked on an urchin/abalone boat in Santa Barbara in the early 70's, and regreted never getting out there. Great pics!
There are some work days that you feel like you should pay your boss for, looks like these are some of them.
Cool gig!!
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So what are you doing out there , Woody?
9" green abs?
If they would just turn the baby killers into fur coats the whole California coast would be lush with abs again.
I'm sorry, I forgot , they're soo cute,
oh my , yum!
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building stuff for the Navy.
apparently 95% of the abs were killed off a few years ago due to some illness. it is really cool seeing them all over the rocks. literally, 5 of them
in a 10' square on the reef at low tide.
oh. and tens of millions of ping-pong sized urchins EVERYWHERE!!!!
so far, the fishing sucks!
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Having just back from Baja, all those pictures could be mistaken for Baja. Woody, looks like a pretty pristine place.
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looks like a pretty pristine place.
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As long as you avoid the unexploded ordinance.
Been diving off the island but never landed.
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Some days .. looks like work is OK !! must have been nice out there ... thanks
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neat! Always wanted to visit. My dad, the tuna fisherman, was familiar with the area.
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I've always wanted to go check the waves out there. Looks super cool!
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I have taken my boat out there many times and right off that barge in about 5 to 15' of water was the best lobster diving I have ever encountered,
lots of 3 to 10 lb bugs. Seven a night was no problem and in 3 nights we filled our 3 day permits.
The only better place I found was the cave off Santa Barbara Is. Completely filled with lobster and really easy pickens, good memories.
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South end of San Nicolas from a helo last summer...
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(read - whaa?? That kinda looks like a really good wave!)
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Abs
Nice island pics, thanks.
About those abs, there are plenty of "theories" about their decline, but fishing pressure in the 50s, 60s, and 70s took population densities down to
where they could not hook up their gametes through their broadcasting reproductive strategy and thus ceased reproducing in sufficient numbers to
maintain anything like sustainable levels through much of their former range. If abs are too scattered, they are doomed to fail at reproducing. They
don't creep around looking for mates, they all just "go off" at the same time and let the currents do the hooking up. There are places where ab
population densities are still very high, but they don't spread out far or fast enough to re-colonize depressed habitat in time to sustain any kind of
harvest.
Certainty is the child of ignorance, knowledge is the mother of doubt. Question everything!
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Great shots. Been there in my boat too, never landed. Beautiful place as far as I could see. Did some fishing fairly tight to the shore, did pretty
good.
You fyl back every night? What kind of aircraft? F-A/18? 
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we fly out on Phoenix Air usually, or on the bosses personal 6 seater. coming home tomorrow and expect to have a 5 hour drive thru LA.
BTW, a guy i went fishing with today grabbed a solid 4 pound lobster while wading in the shallows with a mask and a wetsuit.......
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when they said, "Island Foxes"
i kept seeing girls in hula skirts. well, the Island Fox is cuter than any hula skirt. apparently there are around 300 on SNI. over on Santa Rosa
Island the guvmint reintroduced bald eagles and guess what? foxes have had ZERO predators for the past 50 years so they lost the ability to look up.
easy meal for the eagles.....
these guys are pretty awesome, and have zero fear of humans.
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