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#1 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2011
Posts: 364
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Calicos are delicious.
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#2 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: chula vista
Posts: 907
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They are good eating but please only keep what you can eat. Most of the saltwater bass take quite a long time to reach 12 inches in length. I think a calico takes 5 years. Not sure if they have done any studies on the calico population in our area but I always wondered if they have gone down over the years.
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#3 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: San diego
Posts: 166
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Looks like a nice size fillet.
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#4 |
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Chula Vista
Posts: 1,589
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Calicos are very good eating. Keep a few and enjoy. This is no suggestion to pillage any resource but I have never understood the "sacred cow" status so many angles put calicos in to. Yes, they're a great sports fish, they do grow slowly, and they are available year round. The new rules should offer them more protection, but keeping a few occasionally is fine. Angles that don't CnR any other fish species will criticize keeping a cali. Get real. Mike
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#5 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Baja fish camp
Posts: 478
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Good report , now I'm hungry!
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#6 |
Baitless on Baja
Join Date: May 2013
Location: Vista California, Gonzaga, San Quintin, Asuncion, Mag Bay
Posts: 4,250
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The bigger they are the better they BREED, just like all our fish, take what you are going to eat. Enjoy.
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#7 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Spring Valley
Posts: 1,400
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Yes, they are very good eating, although you can occasionally catch one that's spent too much of it's life deep in the kelp, becoming somewhat tainted by it.
Other than that, eat what you keep and enjoy ![]()
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