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Join Captain Jim Gullett aboard the spacious 38' Wind Rose for a sportfishing or scenic charter and discover the unique beauty of the wild Northern California coast. With over 38 years' commercial fishing experience and an outstanding catch record, Captain Jim will be your personal guide to salmon and rock cod fishing out of Trinidad Bay.- read more...
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Jun
12
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Jun
8
Small Sea & Stay Banner #4
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Jun
7
Fishing Trip
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| June 8, 2007 | ||
| 7:00 am | to | 12:30 pm |
Seats Available:
(under construction - please call)
Jun
7
Special Trip
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| July 4, 2007 |
Seats Available: 6
We will be offering a special holiday fishing trip for the Fourth of July. Call Captain Jim directly for details and reservations - space is limited! (707) 677-3316
Jun
5
Light Tackle Rockcod Fishing
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Light Tackle Rockcod Fishing - Charters out of Trinidad Bay
Seats are still available on shared charters
in June, July and August 2007!
Some private charter dates for half- and full-days
are available as well!
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Reservations are recommended!
CALL THE BOAT BASIN FOR RESERVATIONS 7 DAYS A WEEK 6am-5pm PST (707) 677-3625
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Jun
4
Pacific Salmon - A Long History
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“No one knows exactly how old Pacific salmon are, but they may have split off as a separate family of fishes as many as 100 million years ago.
Current theory suggests prehistoric salmon began as lake dwellers and did not take to the oceans until the marine waters cooled considerably during the Oligocene Age some 40 million years ago.
The genus oncorhynchus probably emerged in the Miocene Age 24 million years ago as the Northwest coast began to take shape.
One now extinct salmonid from this era is the saber-toothed salmon. Weighing hundreds of pounds, it had a pair of enormous curved teeth, but fed chiefly on plankton…
The ancestors of today’s Pacific salmon, such as those found in the banks of the Skokomish River, originated in the Pleistocene Age, a time when the watersheds and river systems of today began to form.”
(The above excerpt is from an article written by journalist John Dodge of The Olympian.)
Jun
4
Saber-Tooth Salmon?
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MUSEUM BOSS HOOKS SABER-TOOTH SALMON — 80-MILLION-YEAR-OLD ENCHODUS PART OF ROCKS, FOSSILS EXHIBIT IN BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA (The Associated Press, December, 1995.)
VICTORIA, British Columbia - Mike Trask has some fish story. The director of science at the Courtenay museum, 110 miles (185 km) northwest of Victoria, has hauled in a 130-pound (60 Kg), saber-tooth salmon.
“We were finding bits and pieces for the last few years, but at first we didn’t know what it was,” Trask said. “Then we found large teeth and gill covers.”
The fossil hunter had come upon an 80-million-year-old enchodus. “It is not much different to our present salmon,” he said. “The teeth were spectacular, with a large hook to them. Scientifically, it is a predecessor to today’s salmon.”
Using the remains of the salmon, Trask figures the head alone was 12 inches (30 cm) long. The tooth was probably used for protection as well as for piercing the shells of its food. Trask said he’s not sure why salmon evolved without saber teeth.
Trask’s exhibit is one of about two dozen on display as part of the “Rocks and Fossils: Bones of the Earth” display at The Royal British Columbia Museum. The show includes everything from Courtenay’s monster salmon to the tusk of a woolly mammoth and a 17,000-year-old bison skull found in a suburban pond.
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For more information on this ancient ancestor to the salmon, check out Wikipedia at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enchodus
And here is link to a site with some really interesting images of the creature: http://www.oceansofkansas.com/Enchodus.html
