2011 Species Wrap Up

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Decided to keep track of how many species I could get this year. Thought it would be cool to catch as many species, as how many years old I am. I needed 32. Might be easy now, a bit more of a challenge once I turn like 60.

Here they are, not really organized. I have a few size upgrades on a few species, but decided to keep the pic of the first of each species I caught.

Here they are in no particular order

Salt Bass

Calico


Spot


Sand


Johnny


Perch

Barred


Walleye


Pile


Halfmoon


Bait

Spanish


Green


Sardine


Smelt


Some sort of sculpin?


Rockfish

Red


Bocaccio


Sheep


Bank Perch


Mexican


Green?


Starry?


Sculpin


Chili


Brown?


Ling



Croakers

WSB


Queen?


Black


Flatfish

Dab


Hali


Freshwater

Bass


Bluegill


Brown


Rainbow


Brook


Sharks

Guitar


Smooth hound?


Leopard


Bluefin


Misc that don’t count.

Market


Humboldt


Sea Cock


Krill


Octopus


Cucumber


Turtle


Crab


Reef



That’s all. I also got anchovy, but no pic = BS, so I cant count it.

Completely new species for me this year were:
BSB
Leopard
Pile
Johnny
Pile
Bluefin

I’m always really stoked to get a new species. One of the coolest things about the ocean is the variety of fish, you never know what could be on the end of your line.

One fish that eluded me this year in a bad bad way, were those pesky yellowtail. I didn’t down to LJ that much, and when I did I heard a lot of “You should have been here yesterday”. I hear they are all chewy and nasty anyways, and guys just throw them back, so its no big deal I guess…