Early Bird Catches The Worm

[sammysamsam]

Are those halibut safe to eat from the LA Harbor?

[jorluivil]

Originally Posted by sammysamsam

Are those halibut safe to eat from the LA Harbor?

NO!!!! Its completely contaminated with mercury!! If you eat them you'll look like this.
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[jimbo]

congrats on the fish and nice trip!

i know it's none of my business, but i heard your comment about boats zipping by and i don't see a light on the yaks in your pix. if you don't have one and are in the harbor in the dark, you're taking your life in your hands. boats cannot see you in the yak. even though the harbor is flat and they don't lose you in the swell, the skippers lose their night vision in the harbors as they pass diff lights. you could be invisible to them until it's too late. i'm not saying boaters shouldn't be more careful and slow down... just saying its not worth your life.

[jorluivil]

Originally Posted by jimbo

congrats on the fish and nice trip!

i know it's none of my business, but i heard your comment about boats zipping by and i don't see a light on the yaks in your pix. if you don't have one and are in the harbor in the dark, you're taking your life in your hands. boats cannot see you in the yak. even though the harbor is flat and they don't lose you in the swell, the skippers lose their night vision in the harbors as they pass diff lights. you could be invisible to them until it's too late. i'm not saying boaters shouldn't be more careful and slow down... just saying its not worth your life.

OK, lets make it your business. The reference to 'boats zipping by' was made regarding day time boaters, not at the night time boaters although on occasion you do get extremely close calls regardless of how visible you make yourself. I was a private boater for 6years and I know how tuff it can be traveling at night and how bad visibility can be. I did numerous hooping trips to Catalina, launch at 2pm, in Cat by 4pm, hoopnet all night and return -in the dark- to the launch site. If you read my post again you'll see the part that says, "Decided to launch solo, it was still dark when I did so I peddled out of the way of the boat traffic and alongside side the docks until I reached the bait barge....." I did this because I knew that boats would never get as close to the docks as I was and I knew what I was getting myself into. I did have a headlamp on and would flash it in the direction of any boat that was in my area.

Anyway, I know how important it is to make yourself extremely visible at night and even then you're still guaranteed that some *ss-hat will not be paying attention and not see you.....I can assure you that most if not all of the yakkers on this forum have had a close call when fishing at 1am, 6am or even 2 in the afternoon. With that being said I think we all take our lives into our own hands when we get in our cars, on a plane, in train or in our kayaks. I'm sure Matt, Roby can add to this, I've seen both have EXTREMELY close calls in the harbor......hell, one was in a no-wake zone.



P.S.
no offense taken

[StinkyMatt]

I think George was talking about the guys that in the middle of the day will see a couple of kayaks and boats drifting and decide to plow through the middle at high speed. These guys need a swift kick in the behind.

The night time thing you are absolutely right about, very risky. Gotta keep your head on a swivel and assume that the other guy does NOT see you.

[dorado50]

A headlamp light is totally useless in and around a harbor and/or channel at night. A good boatsman avoids all potential dangers,including boat traffic. If one is tired of sharing our waterways with other boaters,regardless of how stupid you percieve them to be,time to fish the bathtub. There are as many idiot kayakers as there are idiot boaters!

[jorluivil]

Originally Posted by dorado50

A headlamp light is totally useless in and around a harbor and/or channel at night.

If a boater cannot see a 100lumen headlamp in the strobe mode maybe HE needs to fish or boat in the bathtub.

Originally Posted by dorado50

A good boatsman avoids all potential dangers,including boat traffic.

Refer to StinkyMatt's response. If a boater intentionally cuts thru kayakers what does that say of the boater?

Originally Posted by dorado50

If one is tired of sharing our waterways with other boaters,regardless of how stupid you percieve them to be,time to fish the bathtub.

No one is tired, we're just trying to be informative. Our intention is to make make others aware of potential hazards including but not limited to boaters who think they own the waterways

Originally Posted by dorado50

There are as many idiot kayakers as there are idiot boaters!

Speaking from experience, I have to disagree with you. If you don't believe me go to any boat launch the weekend after next and you'll see what I mean. When you're done there go to any place where yakkers launch and you'll see that the amount of idiot to safe boaters is far higher than the amount of idiot yakkers to safe yakkers.


Just my .02

[sammysamsam]

lol, wouldnt that suck!

i heard that croaker were not safe to eat so didnt know about the halibut. I looked it up tho and this is what i found:

This site says not to eat barracuda sea bass and croaker(halibut is ok).
http://www.pvsfish.org/index.php/sou...ption-advisory

This site says barracuda is ok to eat and nothing about sand bass:. which do i believe?
http://sites.healthebay.org/stayheal...sh/default.asp

Originally Posted by jorluivil

NO!!!! Its completely contaminated with mercury!! If you eat them you'll look like this.
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