06-29-2004, 12:45 PM
[cool][blue][size 1]Hey Chris, I can synthesize with those sentiments. I have fished the whole Pacific coast, from Cabo to southern Alaska. There's a lot of good fish and good fishing in the salt, but nothing better than a hot bite of big bull calicos right in the boilers or around a kelp jungle. Those things have it all. They crash both baits and artificials and they fight beyond their actual size. They are like smallies on steroids.[/size][/blue]
[#0000ff][size 1]I used to spend a lot of time fishing out of Ensenada, down in Mexico. It was sometimes funny when we would stop to make bait, which were good sized mackerel. Some of the "gringos" from midwest USA would be having a ball catching the mackerel and didn't want to pull up and go fish for yellowtail while the mack bite was still hot. Their eyes would bug out when they saw the big hooks and stout rods we rigged for the big yellows. And, the first time they hooked up to one of those freight trains it was laugh city. Amazing some of them didn't have heart attacks.[/size][/#0000ff]
[#0000ff][size 1]Yeah, I'm a real "son of the beach" my own self. I really do miss the salt action. Don't suppose the brine shrimp in Salt Lake have grown big enough to put up a fight, huh?[/size][/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff][size 1]I used to spend a lot of time fishing out of Ensenada, down in Mexico. It was sometimes funny when we would stop to make bait, which were good sized mackerel. Some of the "gringos" from midwest USA would be having a ball catching the mackerel and didn't want to pull up and go fish for yellowtail while the mack bite was still hot. Their eyes would bug out when they saw the big hooks and stout rods we rigged for the big yellows. And, the first time they hooked up to one of those freight trains it was laugh city. Amazing some of them didn't have heart attacks.[/size][/#0000ff]
[#0000ff][size 1]Yeah, I'm a real "son of the beach" my own self. I really do miss the salt action. Don't suppose the brine shrimp in Salt Lake have grown big enough to put up a fight, huh?[/size][/#0000ff]
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