Wednesday, June 23, 2004
Run Like the Grunion
The grunion are a runnin'.
I'd never seen anything like it until the other night. Fish flopping on the beach by the hundreds to lay eggs. It's against the law to catch them once they're out of the water, or at least that's what my friend who had cast a line (never got even a bite) in the water was trying to tell me. If he could reel them in - I think he was trying to catch them to use as bait, not sure - before they reached land, he and his fishing license had nothing to worry about.
The grunion are small, not much meat to be found there. The nighttime flopping in the sand was pretty cool as the moonlight reflected off their silvery bodies. A few locals showed up to check it out. I was told it wasn't that good of a batch and that in the next days to come they would probably be bigger. I need to bring a digi camera next time.
I'd never seen anything like it until the other night. Fish flopping on the beach by the hundreds to lay eggs. It's against the law to catch them once they're out of the water, or at least that's what my friend who had cast a line (never got even a bite) in the water was trying to tell me. If he could reel them in - I think he was trying to catch them to use as bait, not sure - before they reached land, he and his fishing license had nothing to worry about.
The grunion are small, not much meat to be found there. The nighttime flopping in the sand was pretty cool as the moonlight reflected off their silvery bodies. A few locals showed up to check it out. I was told it wasn't that good of a batch and that in the next days to come they would probably be bigger. I need to bring a digi camera next time.
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I always though that the Grunion Run was some sort of urban legend teenaged boys used to lure girls to the beach at night.
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