BJ Conner wrote:

King Oscar is catching those really small sardines again. There
starting to show up in Safeway. Cross packed sardinge have been hard to
find. Trader Joes has a particulally good buy on them. TJs has good
deals on wine and cheese as well. It's picnic time here.


Sardines make excellent bait:

http://www.ruralnetwork.net/~troutbum/web/slaughter.JPG

We must have gone through a hundred sardines, bottom fishing at about
100'. (The live well for the bait is the black thing on the left.) A
shark (or sharks) was taking nearly half the catch, biting off the whole
rig, weight and all. The trick was to haul the fish to the surface as
fast as possible. Because of the pressure change their air bladders
expanded, making their stomachs stick out of their mouths. It was slaughter.

The smaller fish are yellowtail snapper and the larger ones are mutton
snapper. The mutton snapper were the target fish -- delicious, producing
big, meaty fillets. Yellowtail are good eating, too. There's a jack all
the way at the top, near Sam's foot.

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