Capitola babies and Michael Jacksons Jacket

I know Capitola isnt the best rock fish spot, but living right there at CAP, I still love it. Its home to me and my family.

There are some fat rockies out there, there's also a healthy population of baby rock fish, which is good, But why would anyone ever want to keep a baby rock fish. A little, itty bitty, tiny weenie baby rock fish?


The jacket shown here as stared a buzz too, pretty funny!

LOL!!! ..This is A great post! Whos fish were those? Jims?

what's up with the "Michael Jackson" jacket?  That is one fashionable splash jacket...  I had one of those in grade school- the michael jackson jacket, I mean.

YES!!!!

No:) Jims are way bigger then that little guy shown above!

Just some randoms on a boat rental

That is Michael!!!

Heeees baaaaack, and hes on a quest to pick CAP clean of itty bitty baby fishies

probably a "members only" jacket.   To lots of people rock fishing is a numbers game,  unfortunately there's no need to keep those dinks, not worth even cleaning them, not until they get a lot bigger.

why dont they have size limits to protect those itty bitty guys?

totally "members only"

!!

Yeah and the unfortunate that place gets hammered heavily every year once the rockfish season
opens. 

Jedmo

Slot limit on rockies would probably harm the population more than it'd help it, rockies have a high mortality rate if not cared for during release.  If that guy tossed back those 2 small ones they likely would not have lived and more fish would have perished while he made his way toward a keeper.

Ethics are purely individual and an easy basis to judge others on but I would imagine that we've all done something that would warrant disdain from others at one point in time.

LOL!!! ..This is A great post! Whos fish were those? Jims?

Thanks Andy!!! 

NO, those guys are too small even for me!! 

I make sure that if I keep one it is big enough to fry whole and make a whole meal for one person...not a scientific method at all, but works for me, and I don't feel like any fish I take go to waste..they are usually eaten by the end of the day!! 

I try and be super gentle with the ones I throw back and they seem to me to swim away just fine...really hope that by being gentle with shallowly caught fish I am increasing their chances of survival...

Anyway, love the jacket!! 

Sincerely,

Jim

That's a bummer.
The main reason I prefer large lures is that I avoid hooking those little guys. I'd much rather catch nothing than catch a bunch of dinks & try to release them. Just as Art said, the mortality rate can be high on releases.

Have you seen some of the rockfish that are caught off Fisherman's Wharf in SF? Totally puny. BUT, what I consider "puny" others consider "dinner".

He likes em young.

Heee-heeee!  Sham-on!

good point... Guess thats why there is no limit to size.

I have done more bad crap in my life to warrant lots of disdain. Specially when I was younger

This post wasn't a basis to judge others, its was to make me aware of why we do keep these smaller fish..

Shouldn't it then be mandatory to keep every rock fish you catch and then stop fishing for them once you reach your limit?

Shouldn't it then be mandatory to keep every rock fish you catch and then stop fishing for them once you reach your limit?

In some states, it is.  Unfortunately, not here in CA.

-Allen

to make me aware of why we do keep these smaller fish..

Totally puny. BUT, what I consider "puny" others consider "dinner".

It doesn't get any more in depth than that.  lol, sometimes the radio chatter of wide open LIMITS style fishing is whooped up all day when I'm pulling half limits, then guys back at the dock will ask how you did and let you know how they smashed em....but then you see their fish at the cleaning table and their entire limit fits in one ziploc....puts it all in perspective.  "Keeper," (so long as its legal) has many different meanings and its as simple as that.

Shouldn't it then be mandatory to keep every rock fish you catch and then stop fishing for them once you reach your limit?

Makes sense but enforcement would be extremely difficult if not impossible.