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The Great Pacific Northwest JOKES & Humor # 5 California Yellowtail
YOUR FISHING REPORTS • STORIES & EDUCATION FOR NORTHERN CALIFORNIA AND COAST OF OREGON by Rob Gensorek
Charleston, OR. ~ Happy Au- gust everyone! Last month the tuna bite continued right until the wind and waves picked up. T e fi sh are a little further out and north. T e grade contin- ues to get better and better with some sport boats reporting 15 to 18 pound averages and we’ve seen some honest to goodness 4o pounders in the mix as well. It’s tough to say if they will still be around aſt er the week of wind the weatherman is predicting.
Salmon are slowly starting to be
caught in the bay; we’ve had con- fi rmation of about ten this past weekend. And salmon are start- ing to be caught in Bodega Bay. T is is just the beginning with reports from the jetty to the chip pile and even one off of Point Adams up here in Oregon. If we get some rain it’ll speed things up fast and we are stocking up on Jerry’s Gold Label bait, lots of
BYO and Shortbus fl ashers and spreaders and anything else you will need. Rockfi sh in the ocean have been really good.T e ling- cod bite keeps com- ing back stronger and stronger and big fat ‘ole cabezon are still get- ting hauled into boats. Don’t forget about the 20 fathom curve rule in eff ect for ocean fi shing. Call the ODFW or us if you need an explana- tion. Crabbing seems to be best just outside and to the north, drop your gear in about 30 feet of water. Crabbing in the bay is still good but just as it has been all year. It’s hit or miss as to where they are. Move your gear if you have to, if the catch is small, move those pots! Crabbing on the bay took a cra-
zy hot turn for the better in late July with a lot of folks catching partial and full limits of ocean size Dungeness and really large red rock crab. Herring, sardines, jacksmelt, and anchovies are in the bay now and several people have been catching them for both people and fi sh food. With the warm tuna water out
there this time of year we always see cool stuff that we normally don’t see and today’s topic is one
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of these critters. A California Yellowtail was caught last week by James on the fi shing vessel EZC while fi shing for tuna about
British Columbia, Mexico, Ha- waii, Japan, New Zealand, Aus- tralia and Easter Island! T e Cal- ifornia Yellowtail prefers warm water from 70 to 72 degrees although it has been caught in waters as low as 64 degrees, ex- plaining how we caught one out here. T e Cali- fornia Yellowtail is not to be confused with yel- lowfi n tuna and in fact is not a tuna at all but a species belonging to the family of Carangidae (do NOT ask me how to pronounce that) which
60 miles off shore. T e California Yellowtail is a species that covers a whole lot of the world’s oceans.
T ese fi sh inhabit waters from
are oſt en also referred to as an Amberjack, in this case a Yellow Amberjack. T ese beautiful and
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The boys thinks about this, and then says, “Well then why is the groom wearing black...”
“Many men go
fi shing all of their lives without
knowing that it is not fi sh they are aſt er.”
Henry David Thoreau
A little boy, at a wedding looks at his mom and says, “Mommy, why does the bride wear white?”
His mom replies, “The bride is in white because she’s happy and this is the happi- est day of her life.”
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