[cool]I caught another "Black" the other day in the harbor fishing for halibut. That fish marks about 25 "blacks" for the year from our boat. 23 fish came out of the harbor and one 100 pounder came from Catalina while one was caught off Pt. Ferman. My son has caught over 20 fish while sea bass fishing at the island. He said the averge weight of the "blacks"were 50 pounds and a couple are still going because they were too big to stop.I wonder if the other fishermen on these boards are experiencing the same?
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We caught our first (and only, so far) black bass off of the San Diego harbor about a week and a half ago. Being new to the area it took me a minute to figure out what I had caught. I estimate the fish weighed about 10 lbs. We released it unharmed and it quickly returned to the bottom.
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Steven: You are a good guy. It's amazing why lots of people will kill a fish to show off later in an effort to identify it. Juvenile blacks are beautiful fish and of course have to be returned immediately. They also have a bad habit of not being able to deflate their air bladders after you return them to the sea. It's really important to know how to puncture them to aid the release. An old buddy of mine is a guide for fishing Mackinaws in Lake Tahoe. Macs are caught very deep and need attention so they can swim back down also. He has a needle that releases the air from the bladder. But he knows where to place it so it doesn't injure the fish. I think all of we anglers should know where that point is, don't you?
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