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Stuart
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Posted: Tue Dec 12th, 2006 03:48 am |
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Great day with smooth water! Lots of bait available; we filled the bait tank with candy macks and sardines, then ran 40 mph out to the 51 and fished the incoming tide. Nothing like happy fisherman at the end of the day! In order, my motley crew - Jimmy, Paul and Dave.
The halibut weighed 24 lbs., black seabass 45 lbs. The huachinango are a little smaller than usual, but still great eating.
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PQ Almada
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Posted: Tue Dec 12th, 2006 03:58 pm |
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Wow stuart, I wish we had a bottom fishing hole like the 51 up at PP. I need to go there sometime!!!
congrats!
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Posted: Tue Dec 12th, 2006 03:58 pm |
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Stuart,
That IS a great day! You are really consistent in bringing home the fillets at the 51 - Nice pictures!
 Craig
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Stuart
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Posted: Tue Dec 12th, 2006 05:15 pm |
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Actually, I'm getting a little concerned about the 51 and may opt not to fish it for awhile. In November, there were seven boats on it when I was there. Exactly a month later for this trip, there were five boats on it. If it's getting that kind of pressure regularly, it will get fished out. These are not commercials, all sportfishers.
The size of the snapper were down. So are the black seabass. There were at least five black seabass taken this weekend and they were all consistent at 45-55 lbs. Probably all from the same school that has been migrating around the Cortez together for the past several years.
I'm certainly not a marine biologist, but it doesn't take a genius to figure out that if the pressure stays like that, the fish will continue to get smaller and then be gone. It's a small reef in a big sea.
On the plus side, it's 50 miles out and not everyone can get to it. The wind also blows like the dickens in Penasco more often than not, so the number of days you actually have water calm enough to make the trip are very limited. It also seems that the fish move in and the fish move out. We're catching what's typical for winter fishing. Come spring, it's white seabass, not black. The bigger fish may not have actually made the move to this reef for the winter yet; water temps are still 66-68. The only fish that seem consistently bigger this year are the halibut and they are certainly well fed and beefy this year.
Maybe I'm worried about nothing, but then again, maybe I'm not.
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