DonO,
I thought it was a rather big white as I'd always caught much larger blue marlins before and never had any end up in a register of any sort like the white. Must have been important as I kept getting regular newsletters about certain catches for a year or more after tagging her.
As for oysters with cocktail sauce....shame! You know the most you ever put on a raw oyster is a bit of lemon or tabasco (to kill the bacteria). Chilling just allows them to live longer I think.
Murf
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From: "DonO" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: [VFB] Baja...concern, bait, shell
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 12:47:18 -0600
You may be right, but this stuff looks sort of like a Sargasso weed
(Sargasso Sea), but it is in the Sea of Cortez and they call it 'Sargasso'.
It floats in rafts and drifts with the curents.
90lbs is big for a white marlin. Good going.
No kind of sport fishing is 'good' for the fish. (Kill-'n-eat is even more
harmful.) Best you can do is the least amount of harm, or take underwater
photos. :o)
I'll have 6 dozen oysters on the half-shell, chilled, with coctail sauce,
please.
DonO
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From: David Murphy
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Sent: Monday, August 22, 2005 11:23 AM
Subject: [VFB] Baja...concern, bait, shell
DonO,
Hold on inventer of the fly! Sargasso is Atlantic-side and you were
Pacific. ;-)))
I used to do quite of bit of bill fishing ect in the deep-blue. Caught a
white marlin over 90lbs between St. Thomas and St. Johns some years back,
tagged it, and got a mention in the IFFA report. Seems somebody caught the
same fish of the coast of Africa.
What scares me is the ballyhoo or bait fishing that seems to kill a lot of
prime billfish (nothing like a sailfish with its gut turned inside out to
get you out of bait fishing), pollution that is destroying the coral, and
long-lining which takes turtles and fish not meant to be caught. Babble....
Anyway, it is evident that flyfishing is the only way to fish for fun while
those who fish with bait are okay by me if they are eating the fish.
Thoughts?
BTW, there is a huge discussion on menhadden limits and oysters in the
Chesapeake Bay right now. Menh are the food of gamefish (blues & stripers)
here and oysters filter the water. Anyone want to discuss?
Murf
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From: "DonO" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: [VFB] Baja Report
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 08:48:40 -0600
We had a great time in Baja this year. The fishing was 'off', and towards
the end of the dorado season, but we still got into a school of smaller
ones, in the 3lb to 10lb class- great fun on 9wt. or less. It was fast and
furious top-water flycasting, and awesome-hair sardines were the ticket. A
combination strip and drag was the only way to entice a strike,
The water chopped up for a
couple of days, which was hard on my back, but otherwise the weather and
seas cooperated.
Just too few fish (although
we did catch the 25 or so small ones BTB, and the tuna). Also, we couldn't
find any Sargasso-weed, a favorite haunt of dorado. My favorite method is
casting poppers along the edges of the Sargasso rafts. One of the reasons
a local American gave us for the 'poor' fishing is that the Pacific water
was warmer this year than the Sea of Cortez water, so the fish didn't come
in to the gulf in anywhere near the numbers as previous years.
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