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Skipjack Joe
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BONITO
The Rodney Dangerfield of the piscatorial world. They get no respect. Nobody goes to Asuncion to catch bonito.
But someone besides me must find them beautiful. Or they would not have been named that way.
People on the Cortez side often refer to a fish that looks like a skipjack, bonito. Actually they are bonito, but a different species than what's
found on the pacific side of the peninsula.
BTW, that speck on the right is Juan with a couple of clients. Yeeehaw! It's starting to get choppy, although it flattened out an hour later.
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micah202
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...looks like a national treasure you're messin' with
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we caught a metric butt-ton of them last trip! some going 8-10 pounds and kept them. our neighbor is Vietnamese and likes us alot right now! we seared
some like it was tuna, boiled it and made tuna salad and i've gotta agree, they get no respect! nothing wrong with their texture or flavor and they
fight like hell!
[Edited on 1-27-2013 by woody with a view]
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I agree the coloring makes them beautiful.
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When they're fresh, they're suprisingly (too me) made great sashimi.
And put a kid on one and they're hooked for life. Happened to me.
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Used to love to catch them on light tackle, always gave a good fight. Pops used to smoke them, I could never eat one, way too oily for me.
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woody with a view
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that's what i was believing too. smoked or feed them to the cat.
edit: maybe that's why Oriental's live so long? the extra omega-3's?
[Edited on 1-27-2013 by woody with a view]
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Pound for pound as tough as they get just imagine one 20# or 30# .......got one
that weighed 12# off Palos Verde on a light rig had to up anchor and chase him,they will never turn belly up!
Rob
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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BONITO
Yon can make great trolling lures with their skin...That size in pic is just about right for trolling for blacks and blues....K&T
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With four different bonito-looking fish cruising the peninsula, bonito always confuse me. Did I catch a Mexican Bonito Sarda orientalis, or the Black
Skipjack, Eurhynnus lineatus, or maybe the Skipjack Tuna, Katsuwonus pelamis, or even the Eastern Pacific Bonito, Sarda chilensis? Some are good
eating, some the cat would reject.
So, I enjoy the great fight from all of them and turn them loose, being too lazy to figure out one from another and remember the good from the bad.
That kid of yours has gotten big over the years, Igor!
Christopher Bruno, Elk Grove, CA.
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Skipjack Joe
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| Quote: | Originally posted by micah202
...looks like a national treasure you're messin' with |
Well, to me, they are.
I don't take pictures of dead fish anymore. It's been several decades now that the major sport magazines no longer print pictures of stringers of dead
fish either. That was common when I was growing up. There is something about the appearance of a living fish that's just more appealing to the viewer.
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Good thread Skipjack...we just smoked up a whack of bonita that dtbushpilot didnt want to take home....and I prefer it to smoked yellowtail, not to
mention the yummy tuna salad they make....oh yeah, Woody already mentioned that. Our neighbour from the Marshall Islands loves them as sashimi
too....a very underestimated fish indeed y muy bonitas!
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| Quote: | Originally posted by baitcast
Pound for pound as tough as they get just imagine one 20# or 30#.......got one
that weighed 12# off Palos Verde on a light rig had to up anchor and chase him,they will never turn belly up!
Rob |
Rob,
As I recall, the biggest bonito would show up in the southland in the fall. I caught one off the channel islands that weighed 11 lbs. I know, because
I placed him on the bathroom scales when we got home. Mom was not pleased, "Get that smelly thing out of here".
I knew it was sizable as soon as he started his run. Bonito were plentiful back then and you could gage (gauge?) the size by that first run. If you're
using anchovies it's a screaming surface run straight out. I burned my thumb many times because you had to keep it in free-spool to let the anchovy
swim naturally.
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Skipjack Joe
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| Quote: | Originally posted by shari
Good thread Skipjack...we just smoked up a whack of bonita that dtbushpilot didnt want to take home....and I prefer it to smoked yellowtail, not to
mention the yummy tuna salad they make....oh yeah, Woody already mentioned that. Our neighbour from the Marshall Islands loves them as sashimi
too....a very underestimated fish indeed y muy bonitas! |
Some of the bonito we hooked with rapalas trolled for yellowtail had their gills damaged and I couldn't release.
What to do, I asked the guide. "Oh no senor. Son muy buenos." Then he listed me all the ways it could be prepared. Machaca was on the list somewhere.
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Bubba:
Anyway, like I was sayin', shrimp is the fruit of the sea. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it.
Dey's uh, shrimp-kabobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried.
There's pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes, shrimp burger,
shrimp sandwich.
That- that's about it.
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What a great pic and what a great son!! Tight lines amigo, tight lines!
Iflyfish
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The bonito is very beautiful and Alex is muy guapo!!
carpe diem!
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Or as Reuben Daggett would say, "Better than Viagra"! But then he says that about all the odd fish that are caught! 
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| Quote: | Originally posted by shari
not to mention the yummy tuna salad they make....oh yeah, Woody already mentioned that. |
Thanks for the heads up! they're great and i think most "refined" palates are missing out on a great, plentiful fish.
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I can them. In years like this one where you just can not get a tuna (in our area) we are happy to keep a bunch. Much better than a yellowtail,
canned.
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At San Nicolas' bay we'd turn them up occasionally while trolling for Sierra. The look-alike over there was the Barralete. It has stripes on its belly
and really red flesh. Catfood. Both as excellent sport on light spinning tackle.
The Bonitos, though, were excellent smoked, and especially if you bleed them as soon as you catch them.
Less than a week, but who's counting...
Undoubtedly, there are people who cannot afford to give the anchor of sanity even the slightest tug. Sam Harris
"The situation is far too dire for pessimism."
Bill Kauth
Carl Sagan said, "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
PEACE, LOVE AND FISH TACOS
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