Dorado

Great job on the dorado. Those are some tasty fish. Good fighters too. Thanks for the awesome report.

-FF

Yes, the second fish was a hen and stuck by him the whole way. The way she hit the rapala, so close to the kayak, it was like she wanted to join him.

I have been in Baja since December 19. On December 5 the company I was working for let 700 employees go and so I decided to take advantage of the Mexico house we purchased two years ago. It has enabled me to get back into surfing after 20 years, learn kayak fishing, do house projects that are hard to manage from the states. My wife relocated to Pacific Grove for work a year ago and I was still living in our house in OR. All to say that this being laid off may be a blessing and may turn into half the year here and half the year in PG. My wife just needs to stay working and she loves her job! Being down here has been healthy. Lots of ocean time and good local food. I'm losing weight without trying in spite of the big margaritas. By the way, I found the vertebrae of a gray whale the other day when swimming. Very cool and huge.

Enuf about that, now back to fishing.

Nice report...triggerfish are a great fish to eat, and filleting them is actually quite easy once you get the hang of it. Just cut the stomach open, then slice across the fish behind the gill-plate just like when you fillet any fish. Slice a few inches along the top of the fish against the ribs. Peel back a bit of the skin and bite it, yes bite it, and pull hard. The whole skin will rip off cleanly from the carcass. Repeat on the other side, then fillet like usual.

My brother speared on up here once, a rare occurrence.

Nice DoDo. Congrats. Making me hungry thinking abut Dorados.

I read somewhere those fish mate for life

The house we rent came complete with a whale pelvis of some kind  It was doomed for the dumpster so I stuck it on a stump in the front yard

I lived down there for 6 months in 2003, before I learned to kayak fish.

Very super cool to know that I could have fished as well as surfed!

fantastic dorado there! how big was the rapala you were pulling? jointed or not?

John

The rapala is the smallest one i could find. I don't recall the size shown on the box. It is not jointed but I am going to be looking for a couple of those. So far, all the lure selection I really seem to need are a selection of rapala/yo zuri and crocidiles. I leave the big tackle bag at home and just take out a small selection of these along with a few others like a Tady Jig.