I went out last week looking to boat the first yellowtail of the southern California season and we were successful in boating two of the three fish that we hooked while slow trolling mackerel on the downriggers off the Coronado Islands of Mexico. Yellowtail is known as hamachi in sushi bars, which is mostly farm raised fish that have white flesh with a high fat content. Our local fish may not be as white as the hamachi from Japan, but if you immediately gut and bleed the fish and submerge it in ice, you will have an incredible fish to use in several applications.
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