Fishing in Crescent City

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Fishing in Crescent City

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Join our 1 fisherman in Crescent-City in Del Norte. The fishing forecast is currently 7.9. The most caught fishes here are the black drum, the bull huss, the cobia fish and the crevalle jack. Come try the most famous fishing techniques like the trolling, gathering seafood by hand, trolling for mackerel or big game fishing.

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The Black Drum

The Black Drum

The Black Drum belongs to the Sciaenidae family. The adult can reach 1.55 meters for 45 kg. They spawn from April to June. They can live for about 50 years. It can be fished all year round. The black drum is a stocky fish with a high backrest and many barbells or whiskers under the lower jaw. Younger fish have four or five dark vertical stripes on their sides, but these vanish with age. Older fish have a white belly, but the color of the back and sides can vary considerably. Fish in Gulf waters often lack color and are light grey or silvery. Those who live in the muddy waters of the bay have dark grey or bronze backs and sides. Some are solid silver-grey or jet-black.

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The Bull Huss

The Bull Huss

The Bull Huss belongs to the Scyliorhinidae family. Small in size, they usually measure 60 to 80 cm, although there are larger ones, since they can reach 1.5 m in the Mediterranean and 2 m in the Atlantic. This fish can live for 75 years. It spawns a hundred eggs all year round, especially in the late winter and in July. It is abundant every day of the year. This fish is not really active but still is hard to catch. The upper part of the Bull Huss is light brown in color, covered with small dark brown spots. Because of this pattern of spots, it is also called spotted cat shark. The part of the flank is white and grey. The mouth and nose holes are below his obtuse head. The particularity of the Bull Huss is that its nostrils are linked to the mouth by a curved line.

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The Cobia fish

The Cobia fish

The Cobia fish belongs to the Rachycentridae family. it can be 1.8 m long and weigh 70 kg or more. it can live 12 years. The spawning period depends on the location. It can be fished all year round. The body is elongated and torpedo-shaped with a long flattened head. The eyes are small and the snout is wide. The lower jaw protrudes beyond the upper jaw. The skin is smooth with very small integrated scales. Easily distinguished by the first dorsal fin, composed of 7 to 9 strong and isolated spines, not connected by a membrane. The second dorsal fin is long with the front part elevated. The caudal fin is rounded to truncated in young fish and lunar in adults, with the upper lobe extending below the lower lobe. The origin of the anal fin is below the second dorsal vertex and the pectoral fin is pointed. Cobia doesn’t have an air bladder. The body is dark brown to silvery, paler on the sides and greyish white to silvery underneath, with two narrow dark bands extending from the snout to the base of the caudal fin. These dark bands are bordered at the top and bottom by lighter bands. Young cobia has dark side bands, which tend to become obscured in adult fish. Most fins are dark brown, with grey markings on the anal and pelvic fins.

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The Crevalle Jack

The Crevalle Jack

The Crevalle Jack belongs to the Carangidae family. The maximum height is about 115 cm long for a weight of 12 kg, but most adult individuals are about 70 cm long for a weight of about 3 kg. It can live up to 17 years. It breeds from March to September. It can be fished all year round. The body is elongated and fairly flattened and, like all carangidae, the pectoral fins are shaped like a sickle. Two thorns exist in front of the anal fins. The small scales are silvered laterally, but the dorsal part is blue-green mixed with golden reflections. The anal fin is bright yellow. It has a very specific black spot on the edge of the lid.

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The Horse Eye Jack fish

The Horse Eye Jack fish

The Horse Eye Jack fish belongs to the Carangidae family. It can reach up to 100 cm for 13,33 kg. It can live for more than 18 years. It breeds from June to August. It can be fished all year. The backbones located on the body of Horse-Eye Jack are 8 to 9. The soft rays are approximately 20 - 22 located on the small body of the Horse-Eye jack. There are a few anal spines and about 17 soft anal rays. The pectoral fins are free of spots or marks and have a remarkably well constructed shape. Their bone plates are blackish or sometimes even stone grey. The caudal fin on the body of the Horse-Eye jack is yellow in color. Younger Horse-Eye jacks are brighter in color and have large, very dark stripes on the body. The shape of Horse-Eye jack is similar to that of other fish in the Carangidae family, but the main difference is the shape of their heads. The head of the horse's eye whistle is clearer and more pronounced than that of other fish in the same family. The Horse-Eye jack fins are darker in color and some of them even have black fins. The Horse-Eye fish is known as the big-eyed fish, mainly because of its prominent and prominent eyes that are located at the front and center of the fish's head.

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