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Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley.
Author Unknown

GillBilly Slideshow: Baja Surf Photos 23

This is the twenty third in a series of Baja surf photos captured by the GillBilly

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
Henry David Thoreau

Mass Migration of Golden Stingrays!

Looking like giant leaves floating in the sea, thousands of Golden Rays are seen here gathering off the coast of Mexico. The spectacular scene was captured as the magnificent creatures made one of their biannual mass migrations to more agreeable waters.

Gliding silently beneath the waves, they turned vast areas of blue water to gold off the northern tip of the Yucatan Peninsula. Sandra Critelli, an amateur photographer, stumbled across the phenomenon while looking for whale sharks.

She said: "It was an unreal image, very difficult to describe. The surface of the water was covered by warm and different shades of gold and looked like a bed of autumn leaves gently moved by the wind."

Measuring up to 7ft (2.1 meters) from wing-tip to wing-tip, Golden Rays are also more prosaically known as cow nose rays.The population in the Gulf of Mexico migrates, in schools of as many as 10,000,clockwise from western Florida to the Yucatan.

My biggest worry is that my wife (when I'm dead) will sell my fishing gear for what I said I paid for it.

Koos Brandt

GillBilly Slideshow: Baja Whale Watching Adventure

There will be days when the fishing is better than one's most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over just staying home.
Roderick Haig-Brown

GillBilly Slideshow: Baja Surf Photos 22

This is the twenty second in a series of Baja surf photos captured by the GillBilly

Part Two of an Unreal Day - 4/11/2007

People who fish for food, and sport be damned, are called pot-fishermen. The more expert ones are called crack pot-fishermen. All other fishermen are called crackpot fishermen. This is confusing.
Ed Zern

GillBilly Slideshow: Baja Surf Photos 21

This is the twenty first in a series of Baja surf photos captured by the GillBilly

Part One of an Unreal Day - 4/11/2007

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.
Herbert Hoover

GillBilly Slideshow: Baja Surf Photos 20

This is the twentieth in a series of Baja surf photos captured by the GillBilly

Even eminent chartered accountants are known, in their capacity as fishermen, blissfully to ignore differences between seven and ten inches, half a pound and two pounds, three fish and a dozen fish.
William Sherwood Fox

GillBilly Slideshow: Baja Surf Photos 19

This is the nineteenth in a series of Baja surf photos captured by the GillBilly

Our tradition is that of the first man who sneaked away to the creek when the tribe did not really need fish.
Roderick Haig-Brown

GillBilly Slideshow: Baja Surf Photos 18

This is the eighteenth in a series of Baja surf photos captured by the GillBilly

Enjoy thy stream, O harmless fish;
And when an angler for his dish,
Through gluttony's vile sin,
Attempts, the wretch, to pull thee out,
God give thee strength, O gentle trout,
To pull the rascal in!
John Wolcot

GillBilly Slideshow: Baja Surf Photos 17

This is the seventeenth in a series of Baja surf photos captured by the GillBilly

All the romance of trout fishing exists in the mind of the angler and is in no way shared by the fish.
Harold F. Blaisdell

GillBilly Slideshow: Baja Surf Photos 16

This is the sixteenth in a series of Baja surf photos captured by the GillBilly

I fish better with a lit cigar; some people fish better with talent.
Nick Lyons

GillBilly Slideshow: Baja Surf Photos 15

This is the fifteenth in a series of Baja surf photos captured by the GillBilly

May the holes in your net be no larger than the fish in it.

Irish Blessing

GillBilly Slideshow: Baja Surf Photos 14

This is the fourteenth in a series of Baja surf photos captured by the GillBilly

Fishing is the sport of drowning worms.
Author Unknown