It's that time of the year again. Time for the annual Cholla Bay Sportsmen's Club fishing derby. First weekend is next weekend and hoping the wind will die down a little. I was able to get the jet ski down to CB twice in March for Spring Break although I can't say that I truly fished too hard. It was more of a shakedown run but had a good time with no real issues at all. I have since upgraded my fish finder system with a new Garmin Striker 4 color graph with GPS and waypoint navigation with CHIRP sonar for better clarity. I can honestly say this FF is the best one I've personally ever owned. The detail of the sonar is much better. I have also gotten my hands on some MARKS that I would like to hit for the fishing derby given the sea conditions permit. During my first two trips in March I ran the ski out of CB all the way over near PDO which is almost 10 miles one way. Most of the marks that I obtained are in the 5-8 mile range with some as close as 2.5-3 miles. I have VHF on board so I believe this is the time to go for it weather permitting.
Maybe the PROS can chime in to let me know if those marks will produce anything decent.
Question, on the lower map is the word "BAHIA" just below the red house icon. There is a spot located at the lower left of the letter "B". Did you happen to get the numbers on that spot? If so that spot is known as "EL PRODUSOR" it's a hot one. I lost it when my GPS went tits up last year. Maybe not a good idea to make it public. Can you call me if you do in fact have it? 800-494-5597. I'll be down this weekend for three or four days. Maybe we could meet and I'll trade it for some secrets. Maybe JJ's?
Question, on the lower map is the word "BAHIA" just below the red house icon. There is a spot located at the lower left of the letter "B". Did you happen to get the numbers on that spot? If so that spot is known as "EL PRODUSOR" it's a hot one. I lost it when my GPS went tits up last year. Maybe not a good idea to make it public. Can you call me if you do in fact have it? 800-494-5597. I'll be down this weekend for three or four days. Maybe we could meet and I'll trade it for some secrets. Maybe JJ's?
I took a quick look at your PM, went to your dolphins video then back to print a copy the marks and it's gone!
Is there a one time only view app for certain posts on this site?
Can you PM it to me again?
Anyways, 'EL PRODUSOR" is a solitary rock pile. One huge boulder with the base piled up with smaller VW Bug sized and smaller rocks. Super Grouper showed it to me twenty five or more years ago. We were going to use it as a scuba dive spot since it's close to PP and fairly deep. I always had good luck there loading up with the delicious Purple Lipped Rock Scallops. Did a dive there once in March and was blown away by the numbers of Sardineros (Leopard Groupers). There were fifty or sixty adults in the fifteen to twenty pound range slowly circling the rock heap, some of the golden phase as well. Got back to into my boat and did a slow troll with the Rebel Deep Diving Jointed Spoonbills and got a fish on every pass!
The grouper sex fest is only in the spring, probably over by now but even in summer I could get a few Yellowtail off of it.
At high tide the barren sand bottom out there is around forty five or fifty feet deep. Mostly way too deep for trolling deep diving lures. I wait till low tide to do my killing. Then the top of the rock is around sixteen feet deep which is perfect for a high speed pass.
I have a rig that I designed using one of those yellow foam kids pool noodles on a plastic reel with a lead weight at the end. I drop it on the spot with the noodle sticking up three or four feet then make passes with the boat. One day a few years ago I got twenty six Sardineros off of that rock in less than two hours!
Anyway, you know my hood down there in Miramar. Buzz me on my cell at 928-941-0344 from Friday afternoon on. I'll buy you a couple of TKT Lites at JJ's whilst chowing down some fish tacos.
I took a quick look at your PM, went to your dolphins video then back to print a copy the marks and it's gone!
Is there a one time only view app for certain posts on this site?
Can you PM it to me again?
Anyways, 'EL PRODUSOR" is a solitary rock pile. One huge boulder with the base piled up with smaller VW Bug sized and smaller rocks. Super Grouper showed it to me twenty five or more years ago. We were going to use it as a scuba dive spot since it's close to PP and fairly deep. I always had good luck there loading up with the delicious Purple Lipped Rock Scallops. Did a dive there once in March and was blown away by the numbers of Sardineros (Leopard Groupers). There were fifty or sixty adults in the fifteen to twenty pound range slowly circling the rock heap, some of the golden phase as well. Got back to into my boat and did a slow troll with the Rebel Deep Diving Jointed Spoonbills and got a fish on every pass!
The grouper sex fest is only in the spring, probably over by now but even in summer I could get a few Yellowtail off of it.
At high tide the barren sand bottom out there is around forty five or fifty feet deep. Mostly way too deep for trolling deep diving lures. I wait till low tide to do my killing. Then the top of the rock is around sixteen feet deep which is perfect for a high speed pass.
I have a rig that I designed using one of those yellow foam kids pool noodles on a plastic reel with a lead weight at the end. I drop it on the spot with the noodle sticking up three or four feet then make passes with the boat. One day a few years ago I got twenty six Sardineros off of that rock in less than two hours!
Anyway, you know my hood down there in Miramar. Buzz me on my cell at 928-941-0344 from Friday afternoon on. I'll buy you a couple of TKT Lites at JJ's whilst chowing down some fish tacos.
JJ
Funny you should say that because I had a few private conversations that have since disappeared from my inbox ... Not sure why. I'll shoot you a text with the Produsor mark coordinate. Coincidentally the tide will be falling all morning until early afternoon both Saturday and Sunday this weekend... Maybe that spot will produce my first real jet ski fish that I can be proud of and get my name on the leader board for the derby .. Last 3 years for the derby I've laid an egg... #sad
Where do you plan on stowing all of those groupers on your tricked out water scooter?
I don't have a device that can receive a text. I'll be seeing you this weekend anyways.
JJ
I have a pretty big cooler on the back of the ski that could fit something up to 25 or 30 inches but DEPENDE on what we're talking about here I might have to strap it to the lid or bear hug it the whole way in.... or drag it in like old man and the sea... Shit if I get something decent and get some good pictures I'd be cool with that. JJ, you got me jonesing with this El Produsor rock... Wish it was Saturday morning already.
Tide is fairly slack.... 2.5m and falling from 5am to 1145am. That sounds like what you're describing. Head out early and bottom fish and then troll some plugs when it's close to low tide. Fish the tide turn and then head in around 2pm...
I will be launching from Safe Marina around ten-ish in the AM on Saturday. I'll be messing around out there for awhile pushing my just freshly overhauled Yammies to their limits with the intent of eventually parking on the El Produsor spot. I did finally get the numbers off of your original PM and plugged them into my GPS a few hours ago. I really doubt there will be any other boats out there but you can't miss my cream colored plastic hull twin screw Sea Pro "Hammer Time" with a T-top and twenty plus fishing rods and various antennas bristling from it. I keep my radio on channel 16 as it's the Safe Marina talk spot.
I usually stay out there until late afternoon and pick off a few more fish on the "afternoon bite" and pull back into the harbor just as the sunset cruizers are heading out.
I'll let you follow me along the La Cholla cliffs and underwater rock heaps where plenty of smaller Broomtail, Leopard and Baya groupers hang out. It's not that unusual to get a hefty White Sea Bass along there with the right lure. If Saturday's shakedown plays out without any negativos, I'll be heading to Saint George Island on Sunday morning for a Sierra and Yellowtail kill, AKA: MEAT RUN!
Still need your cell number.
Tight lines and crimson red blood billowing from your scuppers................
CBSC Derby 18 Update: First weekend was a success although the wind report was a bit off. Unfortunately got a late start Saturday morning and didn't actually get on the water until about 930am. Went out to the Produsor rock that JJ informed me of. GPS took us right to the location and surprise there was already a marker buoy setup and a panga fishing the rock so I knew we were in the right spot. The drift was about 1mph. We made a few drifts with nothing. On another drift I thought I had a hookup because it didn't like bottom and the line came free momentarily but then hooked up again. Couldn't stay if I somehow snagged the bottom or had a hook up. Made numerous drifts without hooking the bottom so not entirely sure. I had to cut off unfortunately. The deck hand MI NOVIA EX had fun catching some rock bass and a decent trigger with a bait rig that I had made and tied up on the bait rod. We headed over to Wrecked to check that out and anchor and eat some lunch but around 1pm the wind picked up and the ride back to Cholla Bay was fun.... 3 foot swells as the jet ski would ride up and submarine the next wave, 4 mph the whole way back to Pelican Point and I must be a real P#$$y because even though it was close to 80 and fairly sunny those waves crashing over the jet ski I was cold as shit. Got back to Cholla Bay and called it a day. Had a fantastic dinner at Al Capones. I've always enjoyed Capones for their seafood not so much the pizza but this weekend we had some elite raw fish. Tuna Tatari and Yellowtail Carpacho was ELITE omg! Wen't out Sunday morning again around 9am and this time we hit the rocks that are more West, North West of Cholla Bay maybe 275 280 heading. The Garmin app has it listed as Roca del Toro. Roughly 5 miles out we again pulled up to 3 pangas anchored hooka diving so again I figured we were in a decent spot. Starting marking color and immediately dropped down for the first pass with no success. Second pass I hooked up with a decent for my standards approximately 8-10 pound Pinto Bass. I was super stoked. First real fish on the jet ski and now it has given me confidence to hit some of these other rocks and I know putting in work in the future will yield results so I couldn't have been more excited. I was out there yelling like a little kid it was so much fun. Hooked it with a 4oz jig head on a bare rootbeer scampi tail the big version from Phoenix Fishing Supply... Not sure what size the scampi tail is but it's the big boy LOL. Need to stock up on more of those.... Shortly after hooking up the wind starting picking up which seemed to be really early from what the wind report was showing. Wind wasn't supposed to pick up until 1 or 2pm but by 1030am it was again getting decently rough for a jet ski. Not so much sitting out there but just knowing the ride in was going to be WET again. We headed back in to Cholla Bay for lunch and then just tooled around in the bay and Tucson beach area for a while before finally calling it a day around 3pm. Left Rocky Point about 5pm and got to the border at 6pm with a 35 minute wait and we were home exactly at 930 pm to Central Phoenix. Cleaned the fish and had fresh Pinto the next night for dinner and it was amazing!!!! YES YES I KNOW IM A BABY KILLER so sue me! I put in too much work to not get a good dinner out of it.
I saw the wind "predictions" as well, that and making mucho dinero last Friday is why I decided not to make the haul down South.
Nice fish! Pinto's are especially tasty filleted out and deep fried to a crisp in a beer batter with a fresh bowl of homemade guack-mole-ee and corn tortilla strips fried along with the fish. A bowl of re-fried free-jollies and a half dozen TKT's make a real meal.
Glad you found El Producor, that spot will certainly pay off for you in the future. Those panga guys are usually just hand lining for Cochies and Cabrillas for the hole in the wall greasy spoons at the malecon. You can still have good luck pulling DEEP diving spoons alongside them. If it's shallow enough and your speed is right you will want your lure to bounce off the bottom every now and then. I love to pull up a big Sardinero just ten feet from their boats especially after they have probably been dipping their lines out there since daybreak. Those guys usually quit in the early afternoon and you will have the rock pile to yourself.
As for the hooka boats, all they are doing is collecting those big round flat glossy white clams that you see drowning in the foul water filled trays at the malecon. The sandy bottom out there is covered with them. I've collected sack fulls of them on Scuba on many occasions. They are delicious sauteed in butter then dumped over a pile of steaming pasta covered with that creamy Bertolli Alfredo Sauce.
Give those guys a break when trolling up close to them. The last thing they need is to get their air hose snagged by a high speed lure dangling two or three big treble hooks!
If and when we can get together in person I'll show you some floating type, deep (18 to 20 feet) diving spoons that will not get snagged on the rocks at high speed (6 to 10 knots). The midwater Sierras and Yellowtail can't resist them and if you pull one past Senior Sardinero with his head poking out of his hi-dee hole he'll rip out and hit it so hard you'll think you just caught a boulder.
Cholla Bay Sportsmen's Club Derby 18 Weekend 2: Well, after holding out hope that the wind would hold off enough to get out there it's starting to look like a no go. Can anyone else weigh in with a wind report for this weekend? Buoy weather perhaps?Windfinder.com has made 20 corrections over last few days and now it shows the wind absolutely NUKING Friday Saturday and most of Sunday... Gusting 30-35 Friday, Saturday sustained 20 gusting 30 and Sunday similar... I've have seen other reports on weather channel and wunderground Sonoran Sky link that say 10-15 out of the South Saturday and Sunday... This wind is playing with my emotions, it's like being in a bad relationship. What do you guys think? I'm jonesing to get back out on the water to a few of those spots!
Joe, I find weather forecasts pretty ?? more than 5-7 days out. Other than in the here in the desert "it's going to be hot", May-Sept. Friday looks windy but later Sat and Sunday might work.
I've been sitting it out now for going on three weeks. Boat's geared and gassed up. The F-350 is topped off and ready to roll. Look at www.windy.com for a fairly good forecast of what to expect. It does not look good, as they are predicting the same of thirty mph and above gusts. I'll make my decision this Thursday nite. Really got some seriously bad cabin fever going on here. Might just do a Ford Raptor rumble in order to get some fresh beach air. Maybe do a Salinas Point run on Saturday to spot a few more Vaquitas Muertos on the beach. If their fresh enough and still bloody, I'll steak em out and seal em up with my Food Saver for a "soon to be extinct animal barbie" celebration. Might be some big waves slamming down on that beach.
Every day now I get in the boat and fire up the electronics then dial in "Producer" on the GPS. It farts around for a few seconds then points me a 75 mile bee-line straight to the rockpile.
The wind forecast has changed a lot in 12 hours time with Fri-Sun looking, "No Bueno". Have to look again on Thursday to see how much it's changed. Compared to WU, Windy.com is a better site to get wind forecast info from.
I've been sitting it out now for going on three weeks. Boat's geared and gassed up. The F-350 is topped off and ready to roll. Look at www.windy.com for a fairly good forecast of what to expect. It does not look good, as they are predicting the same of thirty mph and above gusts. I'll make my decision this Thursday nite. Really got some seriously bad cabin fever going on here. Might just do a Ford Raptor rumble in order to get some fresh beach air. Maybe do a Salinas Point run on Saturday to spot a few more Vaquitas Muertos on the beach. If their fresh enough and still bloody, I'll steak em out and seal em up with my Food Saver for a "soon to be extinct animal barbie" celebration. Might be some big waves slamming down on that beach.
Every day now I get in the boat and fire up the electronics then dial in "Producer" on the GPS. It farts around for a few seconds then points me a 75 mile bee-line straight to the rockpile.
JJ
Well I guess I should get it out of my head now and tell myself that the ski is staying put in Phoenix.... Claudia already made work accommodations for the weekend off so we're going to come down regardless. Pry just be a take the truck out romping kind of weekend. Haven't broken anything since the Boo Bar Poker Run on superbowl weekend... had a u joint on the driveshaft fail right before the start of the poker run but we were able to get it fixed and still caught up with the group at the 3rd stop in Ejido Lagrimas.... speaking of which, does Lagrimas still live in the Rocky Point area? He just stopped posting on the forum and I used to enjoy his insight.
JJ let me know if you're headed down. I'd be interested in a beach run out that way as well. Thanks to everyone that provided their input on the wind report. I will start using a few of those sites as well as windfinder.com
If the winds continue Friday night and into Saturday there should be some awesome surf conditions. Last year around this time we were eating lunch at one of the Sonoran Sun, Spa or something or others. The wind was really howling and the surf was eight or ten feet high. There were a bunch of people hunkered around the pool out there and we were checking out the destruction when all of the sudden a pod of Bottle Nosed Dolphins came in and started riding the waves. They took em in right up to the surf cresting and slamming down on the sand. At the last second they did a flip an headed out to catch another. Sometimes five or six would be shoulder to shoulder. Not one person sitting out at the pool ever noticed them! Same as the day a few weeks ago at JJ's when we watched a solitary Vaquita slowly cruise the shallows hunting for Cabrillas with fifty people sitting, standing and bullshitting on the outdoor patio. Not one of them noticed the porpoise other than a few kids in the water on puff-up kayakies.
It's that time of the year again. Time for the annual Cholla Bay Sportsmen's Club fishing derby. First weekend is next weekend and hoping the wind will die down a little. I was able to get the jet ski down to CB twice in March for Spring Break although I can't say that I truly fished too hard. It was more of a shakedown run but had a good time with no real issues at all. I have since upgraded my fish finder system with a new Garmin Striker 4 color graph with GPS and waypoint navigation with CHIRP sonar for better clarity. I can honestly say this FF is the best one I've personally ever owned. The detail of the sonar is much better. I have also gotten my hands on some MARKS that I would like to hit for the fishing derby given the sea conditions permit. During my first two trips in March I ran the ski out of CB all the way over near PDO which is almost 10 miles one way. Most of the marks that I obtained are in the 5-8 mile range with some as close as 2.5-3 miles. I have VHF on board so I believe this is the time to go for it weather permitting.
Maybe the PROS can chime in to let me know if those marks will produce anything decent.
Until then tight lines!
ChollaBay4Life
I know this will go directly to your head old friend, but you sure as hell are looking good theses days.
Saturdays prediction is 40 mph. plus. Monday will be FLAT.
So, I'll just stay here. Planning on cooking up a big pot of West Texas Style Roadkill Chili. I'll be out on the Gila Saturday morning near Hyder with my lever action Henry Golden Boy rifle scrounging up some meat for the pot. A dozen Juancitos (Roundtailed Ground Squirrels), a Thumper (Cottontail Rabbit) or two and maybe nail a Pancake Turtle (Softshell Turtle) basking along the river bank. Get home, skin em, gut em and toss em in the pot till the meat falls off the bones. Along with five pounds of Pinto Beans, couple Onions, a hand full of fresh Garlic and a heap of just picked homegrown Tomatoes from my garden. Some salsa and salt to spice it all up. All simmering over a Mesquite and Ironwood fire.
Saturdays prediction is 40 mph. plus. Monday will be FLAT.
So, I'll just stay here. Planning on cooking up a big pot of West Texas Style Roadkill Chili. I'll be out on the Gila Saturday morning near Hyder with my lever action Henry Golden Boy rifle scrounging up some meat for the pot. A dozen Juancitos (Roundtailed Ground Squirrels), a Thumper (Cottontail Rabbit) or two and maybe nail a Pancake Turtle (Softshell Turtle) basking along the river bank. Get home, skin em, gut em and toss em in the pot till the meat falls off the bones. Along with five pounds of Pinto Beans, couple Onions, a hand full of fresh Garlic and a heap of just picked homegrown Tomatoes from my garden. Some salsa and salt to spice it all up. All simmering over a Mesquite and Ironwood fire.
You won't find many if any "pictures" in the books by William Hornaday, Jim Corbett, John Steinbeck, William Beebe and hundreds of others.
You do realize that on any street corner in Mexico you can buy little 4"x 6" full color, action adventure "funny books" without any words in them at all? Excellent entertainment for the illiterate. No need to know how to read in any language. Popular for butt wipe as well.
By the way, can you communicate in more than six words? I'm juzt axeing ya.
We did spend about 4 nights together in the same bedroom in May 2011 at Jerry's! LOL and thanks Kenny! Feeling pretty good. Still trying to stay active. We need to get the Corvina Hunt going again!
Saturdays prediction is 40 mph. plus. Monday will be FLAT.
So, I'll just stay here. Planning on cooking up a big pot of West Texas Style Roadkill Chili. I'll be out on the Gila Saturday morning near Hyder with my lever action Henry Golden Boy rifle scrounging up some meat for the pot. A dozen Juancitos (Roundtailed Ground Squirrels), a Thumper (Cottontail Rabbit) or two and maybe nail a Pancake Turtle (Softshell Turtle) basking along the river bank. Get home, skin em, gut em and toss em in the pot till the meat falls off the bones. Along with five pounds of Pinto Beans, couple Onions, a hand full of fresh Garlic and a heap of just picked homegrown Tomatoes from my garden. Some salsa and salt to spice it all up. All simmering over a Mesquite and Ironwood fire.
Wish you could be here!
JJ
I'm only doing a turn and burn anyways... Sunday is looking pretty decent if it's 10 or under that would be better weather than 2 weeks ago when I caught the Pinto,... It's worth it if I can get out one of the two days. We're going regardless so it's suck sand on Saturday and wish I brought the skeeter on Sunday or bring the ski, suck sand on Saturday and then have the skeetdoo to go out a majority of the day Sunday and then back to phoenix to go on 5 day work grind.... If tomorrow evening the wind report is saying the same thing about Sunday Im hooking up the skeetdoo to the rig and it's on! FOR THE DREAM... so heavy! Right now 8-9 miles per hour all day not gusting higher than 10 all day that's GOLDEN!!! FOR THE DREAM!!!!
Is this Mexican fishing license that can be purchased online only good for baja or can I buy and use it for THE SOC ? Saw the marinas out there last time down and got paranoid they were going to arrest me and confiscate my jet ski ... I never had to worry about no license with the kayak but now with the jet ski should I be concerned about fishing without a license ?
Your fishing license for Baja is good for anywhere in Mexico.
FYI - The Mexican Marines don't give a damn about your fishing license. I offered mine up one time during a routine stop and the Capt. said he didn't need it. Gave him my TIP for my boat and he was grateful to have that. Basically, one guy took a quick look in the cabin, saw fishing gear, didn't give a damn. They were looking for drugas. Didn't check safety gear or anything else. All polite and very friendly during the stop. Got the impression the Capt. just had to have some numbers on a piece of paper to show he was doing his job.
If PESCA is around, they DO check licenses. Says PESCA on the side of their older center console boat, but in all my years, I've only seen them around once, maybe twice.
Is this Mexican fishing license that can be purchased online only good for baja or can I buy and use it for THE SOC ? Saw the marinas out there last time down and got paranoid they were going to arrest me and confiscate my jet ski ... I never had to worry about no license with the kayak but now with the jet ski should I be concerned about fishing without a license ?
For Joe, Here is the place I was telling you about.
Your fishing license for Baja is good for anywhere in Mexico.
FYI - The Mexican Marines don't give a damn about your fishing license. I offered mine up one time during a routine stop and the Capt. said he didn't need it. Gave him my TIP for my boat and he was grateful to have that. Basically, one guy took a quick look in the cabin, saw fishing gear, didn't give a damn. They were looking for drugas. Didn't check safety gear or anything else. All polite and very friendly during the stop. Got the impression the Capt. just had to have some numbers on a piece of paper to show he was doing his job.
If PESCA is around, they DO check licenses. Says PESCA on the side of their older center console boat, but in all my years, I've only seen them around once, maybe twice.
You won't find many if any "pictures" in the books by William Hornaday, Jim Corbett, John Steinbeck, William Beebe and hundreds of others.
You do realize that on any street corner in Mexico you can buy little 4"x 6" full color, action adventure "funny books" without any words in them at all? Excellent entertainment for the illiterate. No need to know how to read in any language. Popular for butt wipe as well.
By the way, can you communicate in more than six words? I'm juzt axeing ya.
JJ
That's just a long winded way of saying that you can't take a picture, if it's just bullshit. Like Steinbeck, it's just fiction. We get it.
Your ignorance has now been exceeded by your stupidity.
I have been a professional photographer for most of my life, you know like make money from a skill? Like make a living from it? Do you or can you comprehend this? And by the way I have posted dozens of images on this blog. They drew no attention so I stopped long ago.
You wanna see some of my stuff? Just google any part number for a Willys Jeep, How about a Carter Carburetor 647744 for a start. The first thing you will see on the WWW in the Google Images for that item is a digital image with a watermark across it with the words WILLYS JEEP PARTS. I'll tell you something, that's my photo, along with the ten or fifteen others that follow it. I have a contract with Google that allows them to use almost five thousand detailed images of Willys Jeep parts from my website. In exchange I get an instant link to my website when someone clicks on the image. Today I was shooting pix of three wheel nut wrenches, those pix and a link to my website will be available to anyone in the world with a computer tomorrow. Meaning $$$.
Also, I have nearly twenty thousand Kodachrome photos in Getty Stock photos. I have always specialized in macro images of small animals like insects, reptiles, rodents and birds. Especially little known, rarely seen animals from shit holes around the world, mountain tops in the Andes and Hindu Kush, miserable deserts in the Middle East, North Africa and South America. Not to mention the Jungle. After my US Army days I worked as a media specialist (photographer) for several military contractors producing training media for the military helicopter industry.
I have a photo studio here at my business and use a variety of nearly twenty digital cameras every day. When digital finally got some quality I donated fifty or more Nikon and Minolta 35mm. cameras along with hundreds of lenses to the local Taco Tech Jr. "college" art department. Probably all ended up at the Goodwill.
As for your "without pictures, it never happened" is the dumbest crock of shit cliche I've ever heard in my entire life. Every asshole with a digi-phone is now photo artist? Don't need no fuggin art school? Kinda like every Instagram or Facebook "model", except for the paycheck, oh ya, it's in the mail.
The dumb assed images of someone holding a fish at arms length in front of a device in order to make it look huge passed the cornball stage years ago.
Your ignorance has now been exceeded by your stupidity.
I have been a professional photographer for most of my life, you know like make money from a skill? Like make a living from it? Do you or can you comprehend this? And by the way I have posted dozens of images on this blog. They drew no attention so I stopped long ago.
You wanna see some of my stuff? Just google any part number for a Willys Jeep, How about a Carter Carburetor 647744 for a start. The first thing you will see on the WWW in the Google Images for that item is a digital image with a watermark across it with the words WILLYS JEEP PARTS. I'll tell you something, that's my photo, along with the ten or fifteen others that follow it. I have a contract with Google that allows them to use almost five thousand detailed images of Willys Jeep parts from my website. In exchange I get an instant link to my website when someone clicks on the image. Today I was shooting pix of three wheel nut wrenches, those pix and a link to my website will be available to anyone in the world with a computer tomorrow. Meaning $$$.
Also, I have nearly twenty thousand Kodachrome photos in Getty Stock photos. I have always specialized in macro images of small animals like insects, reptiles, rodents and birds. Especially little known, rarely seen animals from shit holes around the world, mountain tops in the Andes and Hindu Kush, miserable deserts in the Middle East, North Africa and South America. Not to mention the Jungle. After my US Army days I worked as a media specialist (photographer) for several military contractors producing training media for the military helicopter industry.
I have a photo studio here at my business and use a variety of nearly twenty digital cameras every day. When digital finally got some quality I donated fifty or more Nikon and Minolta 35mm. cameras along with hundreds of lenses to the local Taco Tech Jr. "college" art department. Probably all ended up at the Goodwill.
As for your "without pictures, it never happened" is the dumbest crock of shit cliche I've ever heard in my entire life. Every asshole with a digi-phone is now photo artist? Don't need no fuggin art school? Kinda like every Instagram or Facebook "model", except for the paycheck, oh ya, it's in the mail.
The dumb assed images of someone holding a fish at arms length in front of a device in order to make it look huge passed the cornball stage years ago.
Piss off and die you up tight jerk!
JJ
I've seen one picture of you, and that was taken from another boat of you holding up a big White. I had to look hard and twice though, because at first I thought it was a photoshopped picture of Sea Elephant holding up a big White Sea Bass.
The Log from the Sea Of Cortez by John Steinbeck 1951.
Fiction? I doubt it.
JJ
Not fiction for sure, but it was unusual and maybe the only well known work of Stenbeck that was not fiction. It was taken from a log that was written for the most part by Ed Ricketts. "Oddly, it was Ricketts, not Steinbeck, who made the most complete record of their journey, and it has been widely noted that the book would be better described as having been written by Ricketts and edited (albeit heavily) by Steinbeck." A great book, and a wonderful collaboration.
CBSC Derby Second Weekend Update: Took a gamble and it didn't pay off. Wind had to have been gusting 30mph on Saturday and it did not let up, not even for 30 seconds... Stayed out till midnight at Wrecked and it was gusting as strong as is it was the whole day even though windfinder.com showed the wind coming down to 7 - 8 mph by 8am. No chance even though I held out hope. Sunday morning woke up and it was already blowing 15mph at 8am increasing until mid afternoon it started dying enough to launch the jet ski and play around in the calm bay and around the corner to Tucson beach. For fun I took the ski out past Pelican Point and there were straight SETS ROLLING in... big boys. I bet they were 4-5 foot waves from bottom of one swell to the peak of the next wave... I was jumping these waves in double almost. It reminded me of my motocross days... Sad note: broke my DIY transducer mount just below my jet pump because I was scared to drill holes in my transom so Im assuming that the mounting point was taking too much water resistance and broke. It must have broken while I was riding because the FF started beeping and came on with a warning saying transducer signal cut and to turn off FF immediately. Come to find out as soon as the mount broke it ripped the electrical wire straight out of the transducer so I lost the brand new Garmin CHRP transducer which Im sure will be almost as much as buying a whole new setup to replace. Decided to call it a day around 415pm on Sunday and took the ski for one last rip and wouldn't you know it the SEA was finally starting to lay down... I'd even say that it was fishable but we had to get out of town. Loaded up and was out of town at exactly at 610 and was home to Central Phx by 941pm.... No wait at the border and the second (N checkpoint) was closed so it made smooth sailing...
Definitely a waste of gas to lug that thing down and not really use it but live and learn... Hopefully there's one more trip in the near future before it gets too hot.
Loaded up and heading down tomorrow. WWW.WINDTV predicts Zero to 10 mph. thru Monday.
Might mention to the F**kin Ass-Hat above that that the "photo-shopped WSB" was taken on a pass of El Producor". And the still shot from the video was taken by a chick in another boat doing a "real" estate promo of cliff side properties along La Cholla with the camera in squat mode (landscape), to make them look more impressive.
After boating that fish we had to head to the barn cause my fish boxes won't hold something that big without cutting it in half! Since that catch I've nailed three more grandes WSB of similar size at that local. I usually give the WSB's, Corvinas and Toto's to my friend Salvador at the Safe Marina launch. I don't like the taste of them. He gives them to the kids at the orphanage in town.
Tonight doing beer battered Yellow Tail strips with Cajun Yellow Rice and Sweet Corn from last winters haul.
Windy and from the SE this morning and white caps showing 1/2 mile out. 1 panga out now.
Still windy? Thanks for the updates! Went by and looked at the property. I remember a long time ago someone asked about those two fishing spots over there and I had joked that Lucky Chucky wouldn't be very happy... I remember you said that's where you were at... you weren't kidding! Many days I fished those two spots with the sidewalk down to the water. Those were my two favorite shore spots. Lots of nice fish have been pulled from that one on the east side of the point. Love the property, million dollar views, best in RP IMHO... I'll shoot you a PM. Thanks again BW!
It was starting to calm down when I left Sat at noon. You can't beat the views or the fishing on Pinto point. The sunsets are killer usually. .
I have so many of them in my photo library.
Saturdays prediction is 40 mph. plus. Monday will be FLAT.
So, I'll just stay here. Planning on cooking up a big pot of West Texas Style Roadkill Chili. I'll be out on the Gila Saturday morning near Hyder with my lever action Henry Golden Boy rifle scrounging up some meat for the pot. A dozen Juancitos (Roundtailed Ground Squirrels), a Thumper (Cottontail Rabbit) or two and maybe nail a Pancake Turtle (Softshell Turtle) basking along the river bank. Get home, skin em, gut em and toss em in the pot till the meat falls off the bones. Along with five pounds of Pinto Beans, couple Onions, a hand full of fresh Garlic and a heap of just picked homegrown Tomatoes from my garden. Some salsa and salt to spice it all up. All simmering over a Mesquite and Ironwood fire.
Wish you could be here!
JJ
I like those Henry 22 mag lever actions..rabbit not so much and as for deer/turtles. I name them...hard to kill when you know the first name
CBSC Derby Second Weekend Update: Took a gamble and it didn't pay off. Wind had to have been gusting 30mph on Saturday and it did not let up, not even for 30 seconds... Stayed out till midnight at Wrecked and it was gusting as strong as is it was the whole day even though windfinder.com showed the wind coming down to 7 - 8 mph by 8am. No chance even though I held out hope. Sunday morning woke up and it was already blowing 15mph at 8am increasing until mid afternoon it started dying enough to launch the jet ski and play around in the calm bay and around the corner to Tucson beach. For fun I took the ski out past Pelican Point and there were straight SETS ROLLING in... big boys. I bet they were 4-5 foot waves from bottom of one swell to the peak of the next wave... I was jumping these waves in double almost. It reminded me of my motocross days... Sad note: broke my DIY transducer mount just below my jet pump because I was scared to drill holes in my transom so Im assuming that the mounting point was taking too much water resistance and broke. It must have broken while I was riding because the FF started beeping and came on with a warning saying transducer signal cut and to turn off FF immediately. Come to find out as soon as the mount broke it ripped the electrical wire straight out of the transducer so I lost the brand new Garmin CHRP transducer which Im sure will be almost as much as buying a whole new setup to replace. Decided to call it a day around 415pm on Sunday and took the ski for one last rip and wouldn't you know it the SEA was finally starting to lay down... I'd even say that it was fishable but we had to get out of town. Loaded up and was out of town at exactly at 610 and was home to Central Phx by 941pm.... No wait at the border and the second (N checkpoint) was closed so it made smooth sailing...
Definitely a waste of gas to lug that thing down and not really use it but live and learn... Hopefully there's one more trip in the near future before it gets too hot.
