8 Comments Exploring the Aquarium of the Pacific

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   Capt Paul Mandella

   on Jan 24, 2011
   at 1:59 pm

   Great pix!!! That Sea Dragon is really cool looking!!!

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     socalsalty

     on Jan 24, 2011
     at 2:01 pm

     I know, right? Not a So Cal species, they’re native to Australia, but I couldn’t resist including it.

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   JM

   on Jan 25, 2011
   at 7:19 am

   Nice pics man! I always enjoy going to the VA Beach Aquarium as much or more than my kids do.

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     socalsalty

     on Jan 25, 2011
     at 7:56 am

     Yup, I may buy the annual pass and hit it up on my own so I can spend more time on the Cal/Baja tank.

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       JM

       on Jan 25, 2011
       at 3:14 pm

       I hear ya man. Maybe we need to lobby for a testing tank for lures and bait , filled with pelagic species?

       No kidding , the VA Beach Aquarium has (or had) a Marlin fishing simulator. I’ve never seen it working so I always assumed somebody got hurt on it. It actually had a rod and reel and a machine that pulled the line or whatever? I think.

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   socalsalty

   on Jan 25, 2011
   at 3:32 pm

   Jake and I riffed on the demo tank idea for a good hour after leaving 😉

   The marlin simulator sounds very mechanical bull. It’d be cool though if you were in a fighting chair simulator and then there’s a matching video playing in front of you with your marlin jumping and stuff.

   BTW, isn’t there a big white marlin tourney out your way at some point? I want to say May/June?

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   JM

   on Jan 26, 2011
   at 4:03 am

   There are a few tournaments out this way. The big one is for Blue Marlin and it’s the Big Rock Marlin Tournament out of Morehead City , NC. This is the one that had all of the articles about it last year because the winning fish was caught by a crew that wasn’t properly licensed. The mate didn’t have his 20 dollar license and cost the boat a $900,000 dollar purse and got their 883 pound fish disqualified.

   This was being challenged in the courts last I heard. I know the mate probably won’t be fishing on many charter boats any time soon.

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     socalsalty

     on Jan 26, 2011
     at 9:14 am

     I remember reading about that happening. What a boner move!

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