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Pulmo reef from National Geographic
It takes a lot of sardinas to feed that many jack crevalles.
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lucky diver!! what an experience!
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güéribo
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Beautiful.
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Good Shot! That reminds me of one day in the early 1980s I was free diving with a couple of friends at Cabo Pulmo. I made a sort of deep dive down to
the reef and while I was down a cloud came over me. As I brought my head up to return to the surface for air I realized that the "cloud" was in fact
thousands of jack crevalle. As I swam up the fish just moved away some small distance to let me by.
During that time the only thing going on there was that restaurant that Tito had. Good times.
Regards, Pablo
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Thanks much ... nice 
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Quote: Originally posted by Pablito1  | Good Shot! That reminds me of one day in the early 1980s I was free diving with a couple of friends at Cabo Pulmo. I made a sort of deep dive down to
the reef and while I was down a cloud came over me. As I brought my head up to return to the surface for air I realized that the "cloud" was in fact
thousands of jack crevalle. As I swam up the fish just moved away some small distance to let me by.
During that time the only thing going on there was that restaurant that Tito had. Good times.
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Yes, nice fish cloud photo, Igor. Reminds us all of times gone by. Like Pablo, I had the same experiences when diving or snorkeling in Conception
Bay back in the early 70's. So many clouds of fish you couldn't believe your own eyes. I wish I had a good underwater camera with me, but only had a
cheap Nikon model. The entire Bay was just a huge aquarium of all the Pacific fishes...from little tiny neons to the mighty marlin.
One of the fun, but really stupid... things I did back then was to take a ziplock full of hamburger with me underwater..and then rub lots of it on my
cheeks and face for the myriads of small fishes to come and nibble off. Talk about Being the Bait!
[Edited on 3-31-2015 by Pompano]
I do what the voices in my tackle box tell me.
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Now we know how Pompano got the co-pilot.
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I never witnessed such a spectacle from below but have from above. Back in the 80's I would see them attack the baitfish in the evenings. During the
March/April time frame massive schools of sardinas would appear lining the shoreline from Los Frailes to Cabo Pulmo. They would stay about maybe 100
ft offshore during daylight hours and move almost into the surf at night. The jacks would appear on time right around sunset and just destroy these
fish. The entire school would move in formation starting from the south end of the bay to the north, ravaging everything in their path. It was a rare
sight to behold. And there was just a handful of us on the beach to see it back then. I'm curious if those large schools of sardinas still show up.
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| Quote: Originally posted by Pompano |
Yes, nice fish cloud photo, Igor. Reminds us all of times gone by. Like Pablo, I had the same experiences when diving or snorkeling in Conception
Bay back in the early 70's. So many clouds of fish you couldn't believe your own eyes.
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I missed seeing Concepcion at it's best. Missed it by just a few years. A friend of mine drove down the peninsula the very year the pave highway was
completed (1974?). He told me of free diving in concepcion and seeing bass like fish the size of refrigerators. We showed up just 4 years later and it
was much changed. I think the fish populations declined very soon after that road was completed.
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In the early 1990s we were s few miles south of San Nicolas and saw a large ball of bait very near the beach in shallow water so we anchored the boat
and started swimming into the bait. The fish were so close that you could only see 2 feet at the most and when you least expected it a rooster fish
would appear very close and check you out. This went on for some time and we finally left to another site.
Regards, Pablo
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The big jack schools are one of the most magnificent of all underwater sights. These are both from Cocos Island in Costa Rica but I have seen them in
the SOC at Las Animas, El Bajo, and at Pulmo:
carpe diem!
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Beautiful photos! Thanks for adding to a cool thread.
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Thanks for sharing your pictures Ken.
They are magnificent!
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