What are the blue things floating around

The blue things that we see floating all over the place are................................................... http://www.santacruzwaves.com/local-loop/beachcombing-on-monterey-bay/

By-the-wind-Sailors ... they're everywhere this year. Doran was absolutely littered with dried up carcasses last week.

Fun watching blues and blacks busting the surface eating those things.

Fun watching blues and blacks busting the surface eating those things.

From what I understand, it is just the blues eating them.  Blue rockfish are one of the limited group of species who eat jellies, a group also including Mola Mola and turtles . . . .

Was at China Beach a month or so ago with a friend and thought, "hey, why not cast with some of these".  Landed a little surf perch on the first cast.  Nothing afterwards, but still kinda fun.