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OUTDOORS & REC B2 — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD SOJOURN Continued from Page B1 Harboring criminals There is a large com- mercial loading dock in the harbor there, and while I was grabbing some lunch, the Moores noticed a boat dumping fi sh waste and carcasses into the water. This, in turn, brought swarms of scavengers along with a roving horde of mullet. Mullet can be fi nicky eaters in natural environ- ments, where they typ- ically operate as fi lter feeders, but in human-in- fl uenced environments, the opportunistic omni- vores will eat anything — including fi sh scraps. Dozens of mullet swarmed the surface, chomping at the bounty as I returned from my lunch. I noticed the boys trying to entice the mullet and quickly followed suit, tying on a fl uorocarbon leader, a light hook and baiting it with a piece of shrimp about the size of a blueberry. Casting proved tough, but so long as I kept it at or near the surface, I got bit. Braeden, Carson and I all landed striped mullet (a fi sh found all over the world that I’d caught plenty of times before), Luke Ovgard/Contributed Photo This mural combines Mexican culture, mermaids, and the vaquita, one of the smallest cetaceans (dolphins) in the world, a creature on the brink of extinction due to commercial fi shing nets. and while Chris tried to catch his own, I ran back to the car and grabbed my fl y rod. The next 20 min- utes were spent fl ailing with a light white streamer and hoping to hook a mullet on the fl y. As the food scraps thinned out, so did the mullet, which SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2022 meant me long-casting far- ther and farther out from the loading dock to the fi sh feeding some 15 feet below me. My backcast hooked a loading crane and several cables which I felt justifi ed a fi sh, but it never happened. A police offi cer came and told us to leave, pointing to the “Prohibido Pescar” signs all around us. The dock workers said they were done for the day and didn’t mind, so we’d swooped at the oppor- tunity, and now it was coming back to bite us. Though Carson and I hadn’t puked like Braeden or Chris, I’m sure we’d all looked a little green on the boat. Thankfully, put- ting the green in gringo helped us out, and he let us off with a warning. Are rumors of police corrup- tion in Mexico exagger- ated? Perhaps, but there’s no way one weekend was enough time to decide, so I guess I’ll have to go back. ——— Sign up for every single CaughtOvgard column at www.patreon.com/Caugh- tOvgard. Read more for free at caughtovgard.com; follow on Instagram and Fishbrain @lukeovgard; contact luke.ovgard@ gmail.com. Thank you for your continued support of local journalism. Tom Claycomb/Contributed Photo You can see how that on this foamless gun case that I can lay 2 inches of clothes on top and bottom of the canvas gun case. Also notice the washers on the third lock from the left. FIREARMS Continued from Page B1 Ammo What about ammo? Some airlines say ammo has to be in the orig- inal container but here is an excerpt from the TSA website: • Small arms ammuni- tion (up to .75 caliber and shotgun shells of any gauge) must be packaged in a fi ber (such as cardboard), wood, plastic, or metal box spe- cifi cally designed to carry ammunition and declared to your airline. • Ammunition may be transported in the same hard-sided, locked case as a fi rearm if it has been packed as described above. You cannot use fi rearm magazines or clips for packing ammunition unless they completely enclose the ammunition. Firearm magazines and ammuni- tion clips, whether loaded or empty, must be boxed or included within a hard- sided, locked case. • Please check with your airline for quantity limits for ammunition. You can carry your ammo in the original box but over time, a factory cardboard box starts to dete- riorate. I just discovered some lightweight plastic containers called Ammo Buddy made by Clamtainer. That’s what I use now. They’re also great to carry extra ammo while back- packing or packing into elk camp. I would classify them as somewhat water resistant, at least as compared to a factory cardboard box. As far as I can tell TSA doesn’t limit you on how much ammo you can carry but airlines seem to set their own limits. Delta allows up to 11 pounds and in the past United has told me they allow 10 pounds. 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