Inshore Skipjacks
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when sharkin at the butterfish hole off MTK they always come up in the slick.
hope this helps
hope this helps
biteme4494 wrote:
when sharkin at the butterfish hole off MTK they always come up in the slick.
hope this helps
Thx Biteme. I know I can chum them up there, but I was really looking for schools busting on bait balls out to 3-5 miles or so.
when sharkin at the butterfish hole off MTK they always come up in the slick.
hope this helps
Thx Biteme. I know I can chum them up there, but I was really looking for schools busting on bait balls out to 3-5 miles or so.
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tons of skippys..went to ranger wreck the other day to do some spearfishing..they were loaded almost on every pot. also saw a bunch jumping and breaking the surface on the way in/out.
RidgeRunner wrote:
tons of skippys..went to ranger wreck the other day to do some spearfishing..they were loaded almost on every pot. also saw a bunch jumping and breaking the surface on the way in/out.
Thx Ridgerunner. I'm ignorant when it comes to wreck location...can you help?
tons of skippys..went to ranger wreck the other day to do some spearfishing..they were loaded almost on every pot. also saw a bunch jumping and breaking the surface on the way in/out.
Thx Ridgerunner. I'm ignorant when it comes to wreck location...can you help?
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186logic wrote:
RidgeRunner wrote:
tons of skippys..went to ranger wreck the other day to do some spearfishing..they were loaded almost on every pot. also saw a bunch jumping and breaking the surface on the way in/out.
Thx Ridgerunner. I'm ignorant when it comes to wreck location...can you help?
go buy a capt. seagulls chart,
btw the ranger is off S of MTK
RidgeRunner wrote:
tons of skippys..went to ranger wreck the other day to do some spearfishing..they were loaded almost on every pot. also saw a bunch jumping and breaking the surface on the way in/out.
Thx Ridgerunner. I'm ignorant when it comes to wreck location...can you help?
go buy a capt. seagulls chart,
btw the ranger is off S of MTK
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Mark,
The Ranger is about 33 miles South of Montauk. 40 35.300' X 71 47.400' A little far in the old Logic, but doable on a real nice day. I haven't seen too many in my travels locally.
I'm sure I'll be seeing you out there again this season. Good luck with the fly fishing. I have a couple buddies looking to get into some little tunas out there this season too.
Ernie,
The charter captain we went with on Oahu last March said the same thing. I didn't believe him. When we got back I told him we wanted just some of the yellowfin we caught, and he could have kept the rest to sell, and then I left to go do something. When I got back to my friends, I found he gave us all the skippy and kept the yellow. Nasty looking gray meat when we cooked it up. So figured he was again lying about the skippies being good eating to the locals and kept the yellowfin for it's value. Thanks for confirming that.
Good luck Mark
Chris
The Ranger is about 33 miles South of Montauk. 40 35.300' X 71 47.400' A little far in the old Logic, but doable on a real nice day. I haven't seen too many in my travels locally.
I'm sure I'll be seeing you out there again this season. Good luck with the fly fishing. I have a couple buddies looking to get into some little tunas out there this season too.
Ernie,
The charter captain we went with on Oahu last March said the same thing. I didn't believe him. When we got back I told him we wanted just some of the yellowfin we caught, and he could have kept the rest to sell, and then I left to go do something. When I got back to my friends, I found he gave us all the skippy and kept the yellow. Nasty looking gray meat when we cooked it up. So figured he was again lying about the skippies being good eating to the locals and kept the yellowfin for it's value. Thanks for confirming that.
Good luck Mark
Chris
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Hunt n' Fish wrote:
Ernie,
The charter captain we went with on Oahu last March said the same thing. I didn't believe him. When we got back I told him we wanted just some of the yellowfin we caught, and he could have kept the rest to sell, and then I left to go do something. When I got back to my friends, I found he gave us all the skippy and kept the yellow. Nasty looking gray meat when we cooked it up. So figured he was again lying about the skippies being good eating to the locals and kept the yellowfin for it's value. Thanks for confirming that.
Chris
Chris, When it comes to eating skipjacks, i prefer to have it as sashimi or Poke style.
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Ernie,
The charter captain we went with on Oahu last March said the same thing. I didn't believe him. When we got back I told him we wanted just some of the yellowfin we caught, and he could have kept the rest to sell, and then I left to go do something. When I got back to my friends, I found he gave us all the skippy and kept the yellow. Nasty looking gray meat when we cooked it up. So figured he was again lying about the skippies being good eating to the locals and kept the yellowfin for it's value. Thanks for confirming that.
Chris
Chris, When it comes to eating skipjacks, i prefer to have it as sashimi or Poke style.
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Thx guys.
Offshore Bri- If you ever catch one on a flyrod you'll know why
Chris- Hi, been a long time...Didn't recognize the new handle. Much like BFT's skippies really shouldn't be cooked...very fatty and best sashimi-style like ahiman says. Cooked/seared I'll take a yellowfin anyday, but raw bigeye's, bft's, skippies and even some other tunoids that are considered "inedible" are the stuff.
Offshore Bri- If you ever catch one on a flyrod you'll know why
Chris- Hi, been a long time...Didn't recognize the new handle. Much like BFT's skippies really shouldn't be cooked...very fatty and best sashimi-style like ahiman says. Cooked/seared I'll take a yellowfin anyday, but raw bigeye's, bft's, skippies and even some other tunoids that are considered "inedible"
are the stuff.Just don't confuse Skipjack with False Albicore aka Bonita down in FL, that's a whole other story, yuck... Bleed, ice, clean, and care for the skippie just like you would a yellowfin and serve it raw or seared with a blow torch. They sort of have a metalic taste, hard to describe but very good.
We caught one once while shark fishing. They busted through our slick and we grabbed it with a casting jig.
We put a hook in it and as we were feeding it out we saw this flash come out from under the boat and absolutely demolish the fish. It turned out to be a 170# mako. It was one of the most amazing things I've ever witnessed - great view of it since it was only 15 feet down.
We landed the shark and went tuna fishing. The **** thing must have been hanging out in our slick and wasn't touching a thing until we lowered that skippie out.
They make great shark baits.
We put a hook in it and as we were feeding it out we saw this flash come out from under the boat and absolutely demolish the fish. It turned out to be a 170# mako. It was one of the most amazing things I've ever witnessed - great view of it since it was only 15 feet down.
We landed the shark and went tuna fishing. The **** thing must have been hanging out in our slick and wasn't touching a thing until we lowered that skippie out.
They make great shark baits.
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