Totoaba, a giant croaker

[bajadog]

We used to see them dragging them up on the beach in San Felipe (mid-60's).

They would use a wrecker to drag them up the beach.

Took them even in the spawning season.

BTW. That picture is Tony Reyes on left, and Papa Fernandez in the middle (1954).

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