OUTDOORS & REC
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SOJOURN
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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),
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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.
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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
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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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