Albies Back In Play

[tombanjo]

Checked the calendar, albies didn't show out east till 9/29 last year and don't ya know, here they are, right on time. Hopped on the Golden Eagle with a light crowd. Got 5 fat speedsters, lost a few, and all the big blues you could want. At times it was tough fishing for the albies with the blues coming up so high and biting me off, but I waited for the lulls to get my tsunami or spearing in the water. Very exciting to see them zooming through the slick at the end of the day.

[shrimpman steve]

Great news!

[lunkertaker]

Jealous here...Great NEWS, and congrats

[Billfish715]

If any of you are Littoral Society members and do any tagging, Jeff Dement would love to have you tag as many as you can. They have very little data on that species and their research team would love your input. BTW. A month ago, my son insisted on keeping a couple of them which we did. The heads were removed and saved for shark bait. The white bellies were cut into excellent and productive strip baits for fluke. The top loin was cut along the lateral line and trimmed. There is a strip of non-bloody flesh that can be trimmed away from the bloody section. It resembles bluefin meat in texture and color. It makes a great salad with the right ingredients. The rest of the scraps were used for crab traps and drop lines. Nothing was wasted. When I was a kid, my uncle, who ran a Florida charter boat cut the bellies into great marlin, sailfish and trolling baits rigged under a plastic skirt. It was cheap, plentiful and productive at a time before modern plastic trolling lures. The carcasses were tossed to the topsail catfish which tore them up like piranhas.

[dfish28]

:confused: hmmmm " topsail catfish" have many ideas what it/they could be, thinking gulls... But not sure?? So....?

[Captain Rich]

dfish- topsails are a nasty saltwater catfish with a spine that will make you wish you had never been born ! Come down this winter and I will introduce you. :D:D

[Billfish715]

If any of you get to witness what those catfish do to the racks and scraps thrown overboard at the cleaning table, it's something to amaze you. They show up out of nowhere as soon as a boat pulls into its slip. Sometimes some very sizable jacks join them. There may be a you tube video out there somewhere. Rich is right. They are nasty!