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uin oil, a celebration of colors and themes as a squall passes where you float or surf or fish. All the things that break the surface, the mirror, even for a second, get our attention, hold us as long as they will stay. We marvel at all the life that abounds in the top several millimeters of tenuous tissue that separates the biomes. When the next meter or two below seems to be swarming with jellyfish my Mexican fishermen friends say the water is cochi, dirty. I suppose they would argue that if you can’t eat it, it’s in the way, trash.
can’t tell you what it is, I can only tell you how I see it.
Our eyes are often all wrong for the job. I’ve come home up the bluff after a long swim in a sea with a small chop that seemed still beyond the tiny wavelets. Through my binoculars I can see great inshore currents rushing the sea this way or that, depending on the day --- it all disappears up close or in the water by the shore.
I know the Pacific Ocean. That is, I know the top of it from Hong Kong to Eureka, from Acapulco to Honolulu, Guam to Taiwan. I know the Gulf of California in the same way. Three years of my life aboard a U.S. Navy ship in the Pacific Theater, 40 years of fishing the Sea of Cortez in much smaller craft.
The sheer power and scope of the Pacific runs the best of us right off the hyperbole list. We’ll have to be satisfied that we pay homage to the sea and to those who “Go down to the sea in ships”. If we can do that, it should be easy to also give small honor to those of us who “Go down to the sea in chairs.”
Seas and Hyperbole By Jorge Bergin
I’m a writer and one might think I’m equipped to do it honor in my prose. Not yet. I think we are looking at it through all too human lenses. Time is in the way – painters hire models, not marathon runners or gymnasts. The ocean surface is always on the move and won’t slow down to be explained and dissected. We can take pictures, then describe what’s in each shot; best we can do.
Continued from page 30 flattened so there is no offset. A short piece (say 10 -12 cm) of 22 or 24 gauge wire is bent around the bend of the circle hook and fixed by several twists, making sure the resulting loop around the circle hook is small enough to prevent the wire from slipping over the flattened barb. A downward hole is then made through the snout and into the mouth of the bait using a large J-hook (7/0 or 8/0) with a flattened barb. The wire on the circle hook is inserted downward through this hole, into the mouth of the bait, and the end of the wire pulled until the circle hook is snug against the top of the bait. The wire is doubled back and a few twists are made around the earlier wraps next to the bend. The tag end is trimmed and the bait is ready for the troll. Hook the ladyfish through the upper lip with the hook pointed downward, leaving the 7/0 circle floating free in front of the ladyfish’s nose. When the bite comes, no hook set is required…it just comes tight. With that final piece of the puzzle, our catch rate went from zip, nada and zilch, to a remarkable 75% and the circle hook allows an easy release.
Bubba-Class Rooster Caught by Bill Mathias Using the ‘Ladyfish Technique
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Meanwhile the seas are being pulled every which way --- the moon and sun want the water closer, gravity wants to hold it close to the earth’s crust while Newton and company want it to seek its own level. Great weather cells and the powerful jet stream push and pull while the lid to all that wet sloshy stuff rents, second by second, colors and moods from the sky and land; wuthering gloom moves to a brave Gaug6
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