Sharksbaja - 3-1-2005 at 01:59 PM
Does the Sea of Cortez have FFs. I used catch em in the air on Catalina Is. with a landing net when they were zooming in towards our bright lights. I
would make Flying Fish sandwiches for the kids. Good meat but very bony. Best bait for Marlin...
sharks..
Pompano - 3-1-2005 at 02:31 PM
We do have the flying fishes here....lots and lots of them come north into the Cortez with warmer waters of spring..ahead of the dorado, which eat
them raveonously. If you are out at sea in dorado time, watch for the floating kelp, which hides the flying fish. When you spot a flying fish
actually soaring through the air...more often than not a dorado will be in the air right behind him. A great sight and gets your hair standing!
One trip many years ago we sailed a 38' trimaran 'Meshack' from Coyote to San Marcos..just to go boat camping for a few days. One of our favorite
breakfasts were the flying fish that would skim over the boat at night and hit the rigging, dropping into the netting and decks for us to pick up and
cook. One memorable night the sea was milky white with lumininous diatoms and you could see the dorado as shining white ghosts chasing the little
flying fish until they finally caught up. Porpoise also joined in and splashed us a couple of times when they swam right under where we were laying
in the ama netting.
Yup...we got flying fish!!
FLYING FISH????
bajabum - 3-4-2005 at 01:41 PM
I supose next your going to say there are also swimming birds!
swimming birds?
Sharksbaja - 3-4-2005 at 02:15 PM
101% right. Puffins, Common Murres and others may spend their entire life at sea (only to nest onshore), swimming more than flying. If you have ever
seen them while diving or at our aviary here at the Oregon Coast Aquarium, it's quite a site to watch them"fly underwater". The Puffins are a bunch o
hams, it seems like they are always showing off. I have seen Corrmorants at 50-60 ft deep swim by me.
bajabum - 3-5-2005 at 10:59 AM
Hmmmmm......So whats your take on cats and dogs!