Friday, August 22, 2014

Halibut sex details - questions needing answers

What Sex is that Halibut?  Do you think Halibut are Sexy?

Do they have sex issues?  Cross gender confusion?

Thank goodness that Lia Protopapadakis wants to know all about the sex lives of our local California Halibut.  She is a scientist with The Bay Foundation.  She got a grant to determine if FISHERMEN can supply scientists with quality data on Halibut and other species.

The result is a web site to gather the data.  And a few fishing trips to start inputting that data.  Yesterday was the first of those fishing trips.  It was with WaveWalker Charters out of Santa Barbara up in Ventura.  And we ran out to Santa Cruise island to fish some very fishy waters.  Unfortunately we were not rewarded with a good bite.  But it was a good trip.  All fishing trips with good weather and happy fishermen are a good day.

Will post photos later.

We ran out to the island of Santa Cruise and bounce balled for halibut.  Only got Bonita.  Worked a few other drifts to find a few quality Calico's.

Ran back for an afternoon drift near to Santa Barbara harbor for no luck.

Dinner and a long drive home.

Still...  would like to see many fishermen log on and use this tool