more pics at work

[TAURUS]

here's a look at another fishery out here in california...it's called 'livefishing'...simply put, you keep the fish alive all the way to market...in this case the markets are in san francisco..that means unloading into tanks on my truck and driving the 240 miles north to market..this is a permit fishery with very few permits and very strict quotas.

we fish out of a 12' skiff in tight to the rocks and use a bigger boat as a mother ship anchored outside the reef.



the Taurus anchored outside the reef



we set small 3 hook gangions in the worst possible places you'd ever want to find yourself in...if you look closely, you'll see an orange bouy in that narrow slot...we usually drop about 40 set-ups then run back through the line picking fish...







this little guy isn't line shy one bit...called Cabezon...they have to be 15" to keep...this little one went back to grow..kept alive, they fetch around $10 lb at market.


i'm holding a fifty dollar bill in each hand...grass rockfish around $15 lb.


approaching pt.sal from the south...a fair anchorage if we're going to fish the following day.


a closer look at '****' rock while at anchor.


i hope you enjoyed the pics

john

[longfisher]

Catchin' bait for big money. Gotta love it.

It's a racket for sure. But it's a profitable racket. Nothin' like it.

LongFisher

Cheap bourbon made me post this. Hey, it's cold as a witch's tit in Texas today and I got nothing else to do.

[Robja]

nice pics John>

[gottaflylee]

Cool picks, who is buying you catch alive, Japanese? Thats who was buying Groupers here for a while...

[TAURUS]

Cool picks, who is buying you catch alive, Japanese? Thats who was buying Groupers here for a while...

china town...they steam them with some kind of sauce....supposed to make your willy hard or something like that..they have tanks in the restaurant and you pick out what fish you want them to cook, just like a lobster house...only these people pay over $30 lb. ...this time of year the demand far exceeds the supply.