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(06-02-2012 02:38 PM)Magikarp Wrote: [ -> ]Bro thats a solid fish list there. the pictures to go along with it are solid to. you should put together a article or blog post on it. it be crazy cool to if you had a picture of the fish and a google map shot of all the areas you caught your fish from to do a all around the world look at where all the different fish came from. that would be a awesome read!

I thought about blogging...but a little more work than I like...

One day I'll write a book...maybe when I hit 320 species (about 1% of the fish species in the world).

Don't want this to come off the wrong way...but I won't be posting any GoogleMap shots of where the fish came from. Some of these fish came from sensitive areas where they can easily be fished out if the word got out...plus a lot of the places are found by hard work either by myself or my friends. I'll name the general area (eg. Skeena River, Terrace, BC, Canada)...but don't be expecting GPS coordinates.

(06-02-2012 05:15 PM)MuskieBait Wrote: [ -> ]

(06-02-2012 02:38 PM)Magikarp Wrote: [ -> ]Bro thats a solid fish list there. the pictures to go along with it are solid to. you should put together a article or blog post on it. it be crazy cool to if you had a picture of the fish and a google map shot of all the areas you caught your fish from to do a all around the world look at where all the different fish came from. that would be a awesome read!

I thought about blogging...but a little more work than I like...

One day I'll write a book...maybe when I hit 320 species (about 1% of the fish species in the world).

Don't want this to come off the wrong way...but I won't be posting any GoogleMap shots of where the fish came from. Some of these fish came from sensitive areas where they can easily be fished out if the word got out...plus a lot of the places are found by hard work either by myself or my friends. I'll name the general area (eg. Skeena River, Terrace, BC, Canada)...but don't be expecting GPS coordinates.

yeah the maps would be a bit of a giveaway i was thinking that as i wrote it. i kinda meant more like for those of us who have i phones the phone geo tags where the pictures are taken and if you look under the maps section of you photo album you get a bunch of little pin points from where all the photos re take it looks really cool kind of a places you've been kinda map. its be cool to even do just what town / region or in your case what country / province they were all taken from it be a cool collection. but exact gps locations would be bad don't want people mass fishing everything to death.

(06-02-2012 05:34 PM)Magikarp Wrote: [ -> ]yeah the maps would be a bit of a giveaway i was thinking that as i wrote it. i kinda meant more like for those of us who have i phones the phone geo tags where the pictures are taken and if you look under the maps section of you photo album you get a bunch of little pin points from where all the photos re take it looks really cool kind of a places you've been kinda map.

I don't have an iPhone...and even if I do, I wouldn't use it to take pictures. Small camera lens = not enough light to the sensor = poor pictures. Plus...I don't like photo geo tags attached to my pictures anyways. Secrets are mine to keep and mine to share...I'd like to have that say in what and how much I like to share.

One day I'll write a book...and maybe I'll have a world map at the inside front cover to show a pinpoint map of all the places I've fished. Actually, thinking about it now, I probably wouldn't write a book until I've fished at least 6 continents...I've done 4 so far, but there are much more fishing I'd like to do before that...and maybe even think about a visit to Antarctica one day and try fishing there too.

(06-03-2012 09:28 AM)MuskieBait Wrote: [ -> ]One day I'll write a book...and maybe I'll have a world map at the inside front cover to show a pinpoint map of all the places I've fished. Actually, thinking about it now, I probably wouldn't write a book until I've fished at least 6 continents...I've done 4 so far, but there are much more fishing I'd like to do before that...and maybe even think about a visit to Antarctica one day and try fishing there too.

Sounds like a great plan Ken, you have my support!

Consider one copy sold

This skipjack tuna... it's just so SHINY and looks amazing. Did you eat it? I'd love to hear the story behind this one Ken...



I've kinda become obsessed with my first tuna... such gorgeous fish... and incredibly TASTY

Not much of a story there actually...

If you go trolling at any Fish Aggregating Device off Oahu in the morning (crack of dawn morning or just after sunrise), you'll find Skipjack Tuna there. Just slow troll (about 3-4 knots) a smaller tuna lure (small being 4" or so), you should be able to find some.

What is amazing is that sometimes there will be very large schools of them all feeding in the morning. When they feed, the sea is churned white by the baitfish pushed to the surface and the tuna exploding on the baitfish. Each school could be a football field in size and there could be a number of these schools close to the FAD. You could even see all that white water from a mile away (and you'll see a bird pile going crazy). When they school like that, the bigger predators won't be far away. In fact, we were trolling and I had a skipjack on the hook. I was reeling it in when all of a sudden my line became really tight and I couldn't even crank in any line. It was tight for a couple of seconds and then it went slack. When I reeled in the line to check, the tuna was gone. Something bigger had grabbed it and ripped it off the hook. A while later, another boat close to us hooked up a 500lb blue marlin. Go figure...could it be this marlin that stole my skipjack? Possibly...

That Skipjack Tuna is about 8lbs...and pound for pound, Skipjack Tuna is the hardest pull of them all. If Skipjacks get to 100lbs, we would not be able to bring them in...or that's what most people would say anyways. Noticed the Jigmaster and the UglyStik Tiger in the picture?

I did not eat that particular fish in the picture. Todd took that home with him. I did bring a couple of smaller Skipjack Tunas home to eat. Skipjack Tuna has darker meat than Yellowfin Tuna. Sometimes the meat is almost a dark burgundy colour. The dark meat near the lateral line is quite fishy (but I like it), but otherwise it just slightly more fishy than Yellowfin Tuna. You can eat them as poke, as sashimi, as tuna steak, cooked and then flaked for tuna salad or tuna sandwich (in fact, this is the tuna you get in a can most of the time)...or Hawaiians like I dried (I like that too).

Talking about it makes me hungry. Michael, if you ever have a chance to visit Hawaii, let me know...I have a friend with a BOAT ...and I have a friend called Stan Wright who used to be a co-host for Hawaii Goes Fishing show...and of course we have Thomas and Kaipo and their hook ups too.

I may actually visit Hawaii next year to visit my grandma...depending on when I may graduate next year.

(09-28-2012 04:40 PM)MuskieBait Wrote: [ -> ]Not much of a story there actually...

If you go trolling at any Fish Aggregating Device off Oahu in the morning (crack of dawn morning or just after sunrise), you'll find Skipjack Tuna there. Just slow troll (about 3-4 knots) a smaller tuna lure (small being 4" or so), you should be able to find some.

What is amazing is that sometimes there will be very large schools of them all feeding in the morning. When they feed, the sea is churned white by the baitfish pushed to the surface and the tuna exploding on the baitfish. Each school could be a football field in size and there could be a number of these schools close to the FAD. You could even see all that white water from a mile away (and you'll see a bird pile going crazy). When they school like that, the bigger predators won't be far away. In fact, we were trolling and I had a skipjack on the hook. I was reeling it in when all of a sudden my line became really tight and I couldn't even crank in any line. It was tight for a couple of seconds and then it went slack. When I reeled in the line to check, the tuna was gone. Something bigger had grabbed it and ripped it off the hook. A while later, another boat close to us hooked up a 500lb blue marlin. Go figure...could it be this marlin that stole my skipjack? Possibly...

That Skipjack Tuna is about 8lbs...and pound for pound, Skipjack Tuna is the hardest pull of them all. If Skipjacks get to 100lbs, we would not be able to bring them in...or that's what most people would say anyways. Noticed the Jigmaster and the UglyStik Tiger in the picture?

I did not eat that particular fish in the picture. Todd took that home with him. I did bring a couple of smaller Skipjack Tunas home to eat. Skipjack Tuna has darker meat than Yellowfin Tuna. Sometimes the meat is almost a dark burgundy colour. The dark meat near the lateral line is quite fishy (but I like it), but otherwise it just slightly more fishy than Yellowfin Tuna. You can eat them as poke, as sashimi, as tuna steak, cooked and then flaked for tuna salad or tuna sandwich (in fact, this is the tuna you get in a can most of the time)...or Hawaiians like I dried (I like that too).

Talking about it makes me hungry. Michael, if you ever have a chance to visit Hawaii, let me know...I have a friend with a BOAT ...and I have a friend called Stan Wright who used to be a co-host for Hawaii Goes Fishing show...and of course we have Thomas and Kaipo and their hook ups too.

I may actually visit Hawaii next year to visit my grandma...depending on when I may graduate next year.

Thanks Ken, I read up about Fish Aggregating Devices. Sounds like a great idea! They should build some 'round here...

Just drop piles of rocks into the lake... LOL

...such a shiny fish....

The FADs in Oahu are basically just a large buoy anchored to the bottom with a long chain. The FADs are usually in 500 to 1000 fathoms (1 fathom = 6 feet). The FAD may drift around the anchor point quite a bit due to the current, so sometimes it takes a bit of looking to find the FAD. And as such, the fish may be spread out around the FAD but not necessarily right under them.

Not sure if the FAD concept will work here for Lake Ontario salmon. King salmon don't seem to push baitfish to the surface like ocean pelagics do...and the salmon seemed more associated with a temperature gradient rather than a current driven weedline/trashline. The baitfish, such as smelt, gizzard shad and alewife, also don't seem to be as associated with weedline/trashline unlike the ocean bait such as anchovy, sardines, mackerel, scad, flying fish...etc. So that concept may not work so well in Lake Ontario.

It is actually pretty common in the US where people take bushpiles and drop them into the lake. But these bushpiles are usually 4-6 feet in diameter so it is rather hard to find them unless you happen to run over one by chance. Most of the time you would miss it on the sonar unless you know where to look. When people drop these bushpiles, they usually mark the GPS location so they can return to the area later. This is pretty common in the US because crappies, bluegills and bass associate with these structures.

Oh, and yes, let see if we can hook up some shiny fish next...Little Tunny, Blackfin Tuna, Kingfish...etc. Even Jack Crevalle, Ladyfish and Spanish Mackerel on the light lines would be fun!

I would LOVE to catch a Little Tunny and Spanish Mackerel on the next trip...those two have been escaping me for 2 trips now...third time is the charm?

(10-03-2012 12:17 PM)MuskieBait Wrote: [ -> ]The FADs in Oahu are basically just a large buoy anchored to the bottom with a long chain. The FADs are usually in 500 to 1000 fathoms (1 fathom = 6 feet). The FAD may drift around the anchor point quite a bit due to the current, so sometimes it takes a bit of looking to find the FAD. And as such, the fish may be spread out around the FAD but not necessarily right under them.

Not sure if the FAD concept will work here for Lake Ontario salmon. King salmon don't seem to push baitfish to the surface like ocean pelagics do...and the salmon seemed more associated with a temperature gradient rather than a current driven weedline/trashline. The baitfish, such as smelt, gizzard shad and alewife, also don't seem to be as associated with weedline/trashline unlike the ocean bait such as anchovy, sardines, mackerel, scad, flying fish...etc. So that concept may not work so well in Lake Ontario.

It is actually pretty common in the US where people take bushpiles and drop them into the lake. But these bushpiles are usually 4-6 feet in diameter so it is rather hard to find them unless you happen to run over one by chance. Most of the time you would miss it on the sonar unless you know where to look. When people drop these bushpiles, they usually mark the GPS location so they can return to the area later. This is pretty common in the US because crappies, bluegills and bass associate with these structures.

Oh, and yes, let see if we can hook up some shiny fish next...Little Tunny, Blackfin Tuna, Kingfish...etc. Even Jack Crevalle, Ladyfish and Spanish Mackerel on the light lines would be fun!

I would LOVE to catch a Little Tunny and Spanish Mackerel on the next trip...those two have been escaping me for 2 trips now...third time is the charm?

My brother caught two Spanish Mackerel while fishing in Tampa Bay Florida. One was about a foot. And the other was 1.5 feet. He and my dad had caught many other fish that day while I got skunked it was still a great day.

The fish we kept to eat.


Another pic.


Another pic.


Another pic.


HI ..... Flounder


Spanish Mackerel.... Beautiful fish


Mackerel and Flounder... Sadly not my catches


Does anyone know the names of the other species they caught. It'd be interesting knowing what fish they were.

Giuga10

Here you go.