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Old 03-26-2006, 07:54 PM   #1
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Our favorite 'But hole

Late post for our Saturday's fishing adventure.

We went to Dana Point, since, the water seems to be too cold for La Jolla to turn on yet.

Fished all day, again, and Julie's magic comes through with this 8lb. 'but:

We met Brian, another new yakker, who fished with us for a while. Nice to meet you Brian. He hung out long enough to watch Aaron fight the eel that rocked him for 15 minutes, or so. Brian left, but Aaron finally got his eel worked out. Whoopee! The high hopes of a halibut wrapped in kelp were dashed.

We missed catching a legal halibut on our previous trip, 10 days ago, when the grunion inundated the beach. It was no wonder the halibut weren't hungry that day. We found thousands of dead grunion on the beach. Even the seagulls were too full to eat them.

But, this day we found many more biters to our liking. Only 1 legal, but a couple dozen shorts, plus the strangest variety of by-catch. Our final tally:


1-Seal (long-line released) hook straightened, that'll learn 'em

1-eel, released

1-sculpin

1-20" WSB, released

1-14" Spotted Bay Bass, released

1-short barrie, released

1-small butterfly ray, released

Many short 'buts, released

1-8lb halibut (woohoo!)

It's hard work, but somebody's gotta do it 8)
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Old 03-26-2006, 08:26 PM   #2
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Nice!

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Old 03-26-2006, 09:11 PM   #3
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Is that a real fish? Haven't seen one of those since.... the last time you caught something. Good job and catch one of those every month.
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Old 03-26-2006, 09:28 PM   #4
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Nice. Put in a long day a got a great reward. Congrats.
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Old 03-27-2006, 04:46 AM   #5
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Nice one Julie.....I am off to LJ to pull a rabbit out of my..........hat.
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Old 03-27-2006, 06:59 AM   #6
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Congratulations! You are just walking away from the crowd on the leader board. I'd be happy to get any points. You'll have to share some of your best halibut recipes. Or if you are tired of preparing it, bring some to my house and my wife and I will cook dinner for you two. I wish I was as good catching it as I am eating it!
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