This year I kept some rough stats on my fishing outings just to see how things ended up. Here are the results:
Days fished: 38
Species caught: 13
Total fish caught: 79
Species caught most: tie - Trout and Striped Bass
Anyone else keep stats, if so lets see'm.....
PJ
2023 Fish count
2.5 day on the Pacific Voyager
5 days to Cedros Island
10 day on the Excel
10 day on the Spirit of Adventure
Overall fish count (22 species):
38 YT
3 BFT
8 YFT
5 Dorado
1 Black Sea Bass
11 Bonito
15 Calicos
15 Sand Bass
3 Spotted bay bass
14 Pacific Barracuda
2 Mexican Barracuda
5 Sheepshead
2 Trigger fish
2 Skipjack
2 Popeye Catalufa
9 Whitefish
3 Starry rockfish
6 Floridas
4 Boccaccio
1 Sargo
2 Sculpin
1 Lizard Fish
Wow
I will keep track in 2024.
I think DFG (Kalifornia) has downloadable print outs for keeping track.
Here it is.
https://wildlife.ca.gov/Fishing/Passport/Book
19 days fishing
about 100 fish caught
steelhead
king salmon
silver salmon
pink salmon
chum salmon
pacific halibut
lingcod
black bass
yellow eye
rainbow trout
golden trout
yellowtail
yellowfin tuna
whitefish
sheephead
barracuda
bonita
skipjack
calico bass
sand bass
dorado
I'm not sure how many days let's say 25 or so. Well over 100 fish:
Yellow fin
Yellow tail
Albacore
Barracuda
Black jack
Bonita
Lots of weird species at alijos rocks
Chinook salmon
Coho salmon
Black rockfish
Yellow eye rockfish
China fockfish
Quillback rockfish
Copper rockfish
Vermillion rockfish
Cannery rockfish
Red banded rockfish
Yellow tail rockfish
Widow rockfish
Red stripe rockfish
Sablefish
Lingcod
Pacific cod
Pacific halibut
Pink salmon
Dogfish
Red Irish lord
Red fin in Australia
Rock cod in Australia
Couple of weird ones in Australia
...... more I forgot
I didn't separate out my different rockfish and trout so my species total was probably closer to 17 or 18
Blame Mark for the big lists :d I never keep track of numbers of "incidental" fish. Lucky to live in an area with an abundance and variety. Always cool to get a new or exotic fush species.
Todd
Todd - "Lot's of weird species at Alijos Rocks" ;D
And I am constantly learning from Mark's experience; until now I didn't realize that Pacific Barracuda and Mexican Barracuda are actually different species... - john
Wow, impressed. As for me, I've caught ZERO of all of the species mentioned above.
If we count mullet in a cast net I've caught hundreds of fish this year 8)