Osprey - 6-27-2016 at 07:31 AM
Many of us Octos find lots of health issues that keep us off the water. Mine are minimal now so I'm fishing more after a long dry spell. Yesterday
caught and released a stripped marlin. Did get a chance to see that he looked more like a sailfish than a marlin, skinny and sleek. Captain and others
told me when Pacific cold water upwellings come into our part of the SOC many marlin can't find food easily and grow thin. Might also be a validation
of the fact that the sardine count is down 72 % of normal and dropping fast as the big seiners do their work.
Squid just get smaller in the same way and for the same reason so it's all tied together I suppose.
Anybody else?
Udo - 6-27-2016 at 09:03 AM
Jana still talks about the marlin she caught and released.
Wild experience!
chippy - 6-27-2016 at 09:08 AM
Yesterday caught and released a stripped marlin.
Everyone knows stripped marlin are skinnier than stripers
Osprey - 6-27-2016 at 10:15 AM
Chippy, he was thin as a rail. He had been stripped of his stripes. It must have been a kind of Marine court marshal thing; he fell below marlin
physical standards.
chippy - 6-27-2016 at 11:11 AM
Well at least you are out there catching. Sucks about the bait though.
dtbushpilot - 6-27-2016 at 11:50 AM
I haven't noticed a difference, some big ones, some small ones like always. Water temps vary between 79.5 and 83 degrees. Sardina have been gone for
several years. Once in a while they will stage a comeback but are immediately scooped up by the bait guys before they get big enough to put on a hook.
Lots of Ballyhoo and Cabalito around, marlin and sailfish seem to like eating them.
[Edited on 6-27-2016 by dtbushpilot]