Here is another jumper school. You can see the birds picking off the bait fish the tuna are eating. That's what we're looking for on the ocean late in Albacore season.
Just a quick video of a jumper school in action. Late in the season Albacore Tuna school up and do a lot of jumping. That's how we find them to fish --
Trolling off Winchester Bay Oregon Royce & Bert pulling 2 fine Albacore Tuna. Those small young albacore are what we're after since the older larger ones are much higher in mercury content. Those are in the cans by now and we thank the Pacific for allowing us this bounty. Cheers mother nature .. couldn't do it with out you!
Late in the season we have to find jumper schools and troll through them. Early in the season you can just follow the warm water, but in September-October they start schooling up and are harder to find. The key is to watch for birds who eat the small fish that the tuna herd up towards the surface when they're hungry. The white flashes you see in the early part are the bellies of the tuna as they jump. Kind of hard to see with our camera but that's what is going on.
The humbolts follow the warm water where the Albacore roam. Great bait and really great on the BBQ with chili sauce. This one is pretty small.. some of them can be SIX FEET LONG. Pretty bad video since it was at night, but these squid are really cool. They are super aggressive and have been known to try to eat divers.
A certain Captain *lost* at least 2 gigs of albacore video off the SD cards from this season. Well he's been busy and we're pretty sure either it got some bacon drippings on it so could well be the dog ate it or maybe baby Hannah munched it down .. we're checking the diapers. Like Capt Tyler said " F*ing things need to be 5" square like the good old days" -- true but the cam would also be 10 inches wide and weigh 30 lbs!!
Still managed to cull some off internal memory all CSI:Langlois on yer arse :) Here is Burt pulling a few
Ok this is just a tester. Was thinking of compressing the whole season into one vid old school projector style, but it looks a lot better on the comp than it does on the you tube. *shrug* Its hard to edit pot after pot and make it interesting :)
