recent trips to la jolla and islands
 

La jolla rock fish and trips to islands recently:luxhello:

Holy hamachi look at those firecrackers!!!!!

nice combo!!! Man i need to get on the water before i go crazy

This is going to sound stupid, but are those sculpin? And how do you handle those without getting poisoned?

The dabs and macks must be from La Jolla... :D

Nice haul.

Friendly advice - don't rinse anything you catch from the ocean with fresh water. If you'll fillet at home, just pad dry with paper towels.
Don't ask me why, or whether it's even true or not. If you fillet your fish on the water, it's supposedly cool to rinse with saltwater.

I just heard it from enough people that caught more fish than I have, so I've followed, and never questioned. :D

One is a sculpin and the other a cabezon, I"ve handles both only stuck by the cab, still hurt, I just usually grab by thier mouths, the cab bites harder !!! THe cab I think tastes better sweeter blue meat ...

I usually do wash with fresh water and have never had a problem, could you explain the reason why not??? I'm curious

Cell osmosis is one reason. Salt will be drawn out of cells in an attempt to equilibrate the gradient in concentration.

Keeping salt in the meat acts as a natural preservative and will slow the breakdown of the proteins as well as prevent infection. It's "ok" to fresh water rinse but you should immediately transfer to salt water brine. As Lamb said, just something I heard and trust from much more seasoned anglers

pliers and a quick blow to the head takes care of sculpin as well as a fillet glove(s) to clean

Cool, thanks