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The anchovies are back.
« on: July 25, 2014, 05:49:02 PM »
 Yes they're back, along with the whales.
 These were chased up on the beach today.

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Re: The anchovies are back.
« Reply #1 on: July 25, 2014, 06:10:59 PM »
Breath deep the gathering gloom. .........
Or
Uuuuu..that smell.  That smell that surrounds meeeee.
It's not overhead to me!
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Re: The anchovies are back.
« Reply #2 on: July 25, 2014, 06:31:33 PM »
Now don't get moody on us.

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Re: The anchovies are back.
« Reply #3 on: July 25, 2014, 11:13:35 PM »
Where are the seagull janitors?  Haven't seen this yet, saw some schools swimming around under water.

I missed the whale show around Capitola recently, hope there is more.  The crazy feeding frenzies from last year were a real sight. I have seen some of the dark black, large seals with big teeth around, too.
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Re: The anchovies are back.
« Reply #4 on: July 26, 2014, 08:12:23 AM »
Last year was crazy. I was down in capitola this thin last year and the whales were 50 yard off the beach.

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Re: The anchovies are back.
« Reply #5 on: July 28, 2014, 01:30:04 PM »
The bait is everywhere from Natural Bridges to Capitola, but thicker as you head east.  During the Pier to Pier race on Saturday they were so thick at Capitola it was like a shimmering carpet at the finish.  The slick started around the Hook...

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Re: The anchovies are back.
« Reply #6 on: July 28, 2014, 05:15:35 PM »
That makes me hungry---sort of. Those buggah are very tasty cooked on a spit, or grilled with a little garlic. Of course after the first few days of eating them they get very old, very quick. Unless you're a Pelican.
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Re: The anchovies are back.
« Reply #7 on: July 29, 2014, 01:54:00 AM »
Pick them up and put in your freezer great bait.
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Re: The anchovies are back.
« Reply #8 on: July 29, 2014, 12:27:12 PM »
Pick them up and put in your freezer great bait.

Or your garden great fertilizer. Skunks and Racoons will dig them up though, and your dog will love to roll in them.

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Re: The anchovies are back.
« Reply #9 on: July 29, 2014, 08:10:29 PM »
In a former life when I was trying to be a gentleman farmer I made fish fertilizer for my garden. Basically you chop the heck out of the fish and put them in a drum with water. Time passes. Now you have a brown sludge that nothing can dig up and few carbon based life forms can be within 50 feet of. Including deer. But vegetables explode out of the ground. I had tomato vines ten feet tall in cages I made of concrete re-mesh. Zucchinis that went from four inches the previous night to a couple of feet the next day. Cucumbers the size of a Corgi. Spooky. It was the land of the giant vegetables.

I used smelt dipped from the Cowlitz river-- 50 pounds a day limit. I smoked them, pickled them, ate them fresh, and when I couldn't stand it anymore I made fertilizer. If they're just being left on the beach it's just one more example of our f&*%ked culture. In Vietnam there wouldn't be a scale left on the beach.
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Re: The anchovies are back.
« Reply #10 on: July 29, 2014, 11:10:41 PM »
If you just put a single fish at the top of a pot for fertilizer and let it decay, will it smell really bad?  I have about 18 potted bamboos and they need trace elements, usually provided by seaweed or  fish emulsions. The stuff from the store kind of stinks, but not too bad.

I could just go to the beach and pick a peck of anchovies instead and they might last longer.
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Re: The anchovies are back.
« Reply #11 on: July 30, 2014, 05:42:14 AM »
We paddled Saturday out of New Brighton and it was icky - the stench seems to have stuck to the boards as well.  Washed them all twice, the pads still smell.  Suggestions?
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Re: The anchovies are back.
« Reply #12 on: July 30, 2014, 09:23:51 AM »
Treat it like skunk spray, open up a can of tomato soup and paint it on the pad, let it sit for awhile (an hour or so) in the shade, then hose off.
Repeat if necessary.
It takes a quiver to do that.

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Re: The anchovies are back.
« Reply #13 on: July 30, 2014, 01:48:27 PM »
There were little random patches of fish oil at Pleasure Point today, mostly on the inside.

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Re: The anchovies are back.
« Reply #14 on: July 31, 2014, 12:41:16 AM »
So why are so many dead on the beach , what's the go with that ?
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