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Santa Rosa Style
Santa Rosa , CA

Santa Rosa Island lies 45 miles off shore of the Ventura coastline, and offers an exciting diversity of sights and activities. You can stroll on pristine, deserted beaches with harbor seals watching you from the ocean, hike through inland canyons rich with wildflowers, sandstone carvings, and greenery, discover fascinating sea life in undisturbed tide pools, and view island fox, and rare island birds. Chumash archeological sites and fossil beds provide history lovers with the rare opportunity to experience how early inhabitants lived on the island. Park Rangers point out the buildings of the century-old cattle ranch that is no longer operating, and tell you the intriguing stories of human habitation of the island that dates back 10,000 years.

Join us as we take to the sky onboard 2 islanders aircraft provided by Channel Islands Aviation and with our friends from Yo's Tackle of Gardena, Ca to do a little shore fishing "Santa Rosa Style".

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Catalina Island Style
Catalina , CA

Join us as we head to Catalina Island on board the Sea Hawk Fishing for the California Yellow Tail. Watch it on the site or download the show for your ipod. 

The Yellowtail is characterized by its long aerodynamic body with a long pointed, "smooth"-looking snout, a mouth ending at the front edge of the eye pupil, blue upper back, silver-white sides and belly, yellow fins, and distinguishing narrow bronze stripe along the middle of the body that becomes yellow posteriorly.


The Yellowtail is not easily confused with other species. It is a close relative to the Pacific Amberjack, Seriola rivoliana (less aerodynamic, no body stripe, diagonal stripe through eye), and similar in size and shape to the much smaller Fortune Jack, Seriola peruana (short snout, mouth ending under the pupil, no bars or stripes on head or body, dark fins, and an overall bronze appearance).

The Yellowtail is pelagic and found in all Mexican waters including the Pacific side of the Baja California peninsula, the Gulf of California, and along mainland Mexico through to Guatemala. It is usually found in the first 250 feet of the water column. It is reported to reach a length of 8 feet and up to 110 pounds in the southern hemisphere, although a 50 pounder is very rare in Mexican waters. The Yellowtail is a prime targeted game fish.

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Saving the White Seabass
Carlsbad , CA

Join us as we go on a video tour with Marine Biologist Mark Drawbridge M.S. At Hubbs-SeaWorld Research Institute Carlsbad California.

Stock replenishment is an important tool for sustainable fisheries management. It may be defined as the rearing of aquatic organisms during part of their life cycle for subsequent release in open waters to replenish natural populations. Stock enhancement of both inland and coastal fisheries is a complex undertaking and requires significant scientific knowledge in a diverse array of fields, high levels of several technological skills, and finally sensitive application to put it into practice.

Since 1986 hatchery-reared white seabass have been released into the bays and near shore coastal areas of southern California. Nearly 1,000 of these hatchery-reared white seabass have been recovered! Click on the image below to see the number of white seabass recovered throughout southern California. Some of these individuals were caught in a matter of days after their release while others were at liberty for more than eight years before they were recovered.

White seabass moved north and south along the coast from their release sites. While some white seabass have been caught near their site of release several years later, others have been recovered over 150 nautical miles away just 18 months after release. A few individuals have even moved from one bay to another along the coast. Hatchery-reared white seabass released at Santa Catalina Island have been recovered along the mainland within a few months and a few fish that were released along the mainland have been caught at several of the Channel Islands.


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