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joe
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Posted: Sat May 17th, 2008 03:30 am |
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We went fishing today with Captain Steve Pringle on Flying Low and caught a dorado weighing in at 24.6 lbs. Hopefully, this is the first of many nice fish we'll see in the coming season.
Joe
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cinco
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Posted: Sat May 17th, 2008 03:53 am |
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This fish was caught at 13 miles out, approx 150 heading.
Nice fish for a female, hopefuly many more to come.
Angler, Joe N
boat "Flying Low"
Attachment: first dorado of season for flying low.jpg (Downloaded 508 times)
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CHANOK
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Posted: Sat May 17th, 2008 08:25 pm |
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nice catch, but let the females GO, we want to keep fishing 15 years from now.
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repsilon
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Posted: Sun May 18th, 2008 06:11 am |
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| Definitely a noble point, but how many charters, pangueros, longliners, or private fishermen for that matter would let that fish go. Get on Mexfish and see how the commercial fisherman are decimating the tuna population by Cabo, not to mention how much impact they're taking farther off (read the book Hooked). (And its not just tuna - marlin, dorado, etc. on boats from major commercial longliners to converted shrimp boats and panguero motherships). Not close enough to you, then just troll down a longline with a hundred dorado on a day that you haven't caught one. Do you think they're putting back the females? It is a point to consider on a fish that we know is female definitely. I hope that you would practice what you preach. Sorry, not chastising your point or remark, just hoping to bring to light what most of us are hoping to deny. Can you imagine if we had 19 purse seiners here netting our tuna? I'd be personally purchasing weapons stock.
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Posted: Mon May 19th, 2008 03:27 am |
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| Sorry, but that's definitely a keeper - female or not. Especially on a day when it's the only fish landed. I let anything under 10lbs go no matter what, if it has a chance to survive, so I do what I can.
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Posted: Mon May 19th, 2008 07:20 am |
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| I let all my females go after I get some pictures and I am so much happier as a fisherman now. -J
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Bob Blair
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Posted: Mon May 19th, 2008 12:40 pm |
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great fish Joe and congrats.
Everybody has to put their 2 cents in. nobody tells them what to do but they all like to give advice. Of all the GOOD dorado fisherman I know they all would keep that fish. but than again I just got here and know very few fisherman
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Posted: Mon May 19th, 2008 03:54 pm |
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I am a born again fish hugger but I have to agree with Capt. Blair. Nice fish, definitely a keeper!
Mateo
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Posted: Mon May 19th, 2008 04:49 pm |
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Here's a nice bull caught by Steve Brideau fishing on Catch 22 Rubina Sunday. Thanks Fernando!
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Posted: Tue May 20th, 2008 07:32 pm |
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| Cinco, that looks similar to my boat. Are you running a 2860?
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cinco
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Posted: Tue May 20th, 2008 08:34 pm |
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| yes, an 03 with repowered 1.7DTI's. They both crapped out at around 800hrs.. what do you have for power?
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Posted: Tue May 20th, 2008 11:16 pm |
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Cinco, I replaced both my 1.7's with the new 88 series 1.7's and reduced the drives from 1.8 to 2.0 along with smaller props. CumminsMercruiser warrantied them, saying that they used too large of drives and props on the original set up. It seems that too many people only care about how fast their boat goes. I'm not in a hurry. I have only put about 50 hours on the new ones and they seem great. Very fuel efficient and I get 15-18 knots at 3/4 throttle. My friend in Scotland says 1.7's are in very high demand in Europe because they use such a small amount of fuel.
When yours crapped out, did you put on the smaller drives with the new engines?
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