Albacore off the Beach??

http://www.fishsniffer.com/cgi-bin/forumsyabb/YaBB.pl?num=1145425722

Truly amazing!  Any thoughts from the experts out there?

amazing....I was hoping for more details on the catch. Must be a rouge tuna

I'm a skeptic.  Late April fools joke?

That fish would have smoked his surf fishing reel and his line would have quickly disappered before he could say holy sh!t.

Nice to see his son wearing a PFD on the beach too. 

Stuart

good eye stu....his "fishing" report didn't sound very descriptive or even exciting 

I once saw a guy catch a small skipjack off the beach at punta conejo, it's a left point 2 hours drive up from
cabo on the pacific coast of baja. my brother standing next to him caught a small sierra. This was in january
1999.

Also saw a big snook caught on a tiny spoon there. that guy was a great fisherman tho.

Also a giant corvina the ones that have the teeth, I get confused between covina, corbina, etc.

The mexicans that "live" there harvest the oysters. they are big oysters. you have to quarter them to eat them.

I caught a small roosterfish off the beach there myself. Summer 1996

I agree that an albacore seems a little nutty, but fish can get sick and wander off course sometimes.
Paul, the deaf guy on kayak4fish, claims to have caught a 100+lb tuna of waddell beach more or less
with his hands while surfing. The fish appeared healthy, but was not. It's almost too crazy to make
up.

Best,

J

I hate to say this, but I think that sniffer post is for real.

that guy posts a lot on bass in south bay lakes and his posts are well received.

he probably knows ferdie the float tuber mooch, they fish lexington for bass.

wayward albie!

what about the comments about warm water nearby? that could be verified.

J

I agree regarding the poster's (in)credibility!  All the bouy temps seem to be around 55 though...

I want to believe it...it would be sooooo cool if it were true.

I'm going to weigh in here as a complete skeptic.  Water temp is 52-55 degrees here, not 64.....or even 61.
(The sat SST pic 'big kahuna' references is from STS website and is dated 9/5/05  just the temps we'd expect....in September)

Stuart, my eye went right to the pfd as well.  I guess some dads would make their kid wear one for surfcasting, but I'v not seen it before.  He may have done a good job of dropping the one image on top of the other, but there's something about the depth of the kid in the foreground that doesn't look right.  Shadows look OK, though.

The kid looks to have sand on his fingers as well, which fits with a beach  but not with a boat........?  the fish kinda looks like it's been gilled, but you could do that on a boat or on the beach....
I just can't believe
1. it would happen, and
2. that people would not have been SCREAMING about it.  Not a murmur here in SC.

good joke, or mind-boggling catch?  YOU be the judge.

Allen

I dont know much about tuna or albacore ive only caught a few.
   
  Here is what I do know I know Hookie and he would not make a story about this up he is a good fisherman and a good dad anyone who has met him will say the same thing, If you want to meet him he will be at del valle on saturday in a rental boat with The other ken and I will be there with my yak.
 
bottom line if he say's its so it is.

Just wanted to share a pic of what my son and I plucked off the beach at New Brighton today. 

I read his report again and noticed that he never mentioned anything about catching the Tuna with a hook & line.....he just said "plucked off the beach" What does he really mean about "plucked"?

mooch, read more carefully, in a later post, he says he used a two oz mickey, that is a silver slab striper spoon, right?

Also, I have quite often had my kids wear pfds when playing at the edge of the surf. when we spent
six months in baja, they would put them on without me even asking them to do so. 

I figured that temp comment was wrong, note it came from some other guy tho. not from hookie.

Strange things do happen. I hooked a barracuda in a zodiac right off pleasure point once (1994). My 70 year old
barber who fished here his whole life says he caught some too, as well as two kinds of bonita, one that
is normally only seen near hawaii. He says every once in a while, a fish gets sick or lost. 
it's a big ocean.  given enough time, strange things happen.

It is also way too easy to make an internet hoax, but fairies wear boots man, you gotta believe me!

jmaireys however, wear VANS.

J

ooops...didn't see that 

We get barracuda almost every year here inshore, and bonita once in a while, but never at this time of year.  In addition, the albacore haven't even moved to San Diego yet, and they travel en masse, not solo.  They are a pelagic migratory fish.

I think this hookie guy is out-mooching the Mooch.  More power to him.

I'll check NB tomorrow and expect to see the beach lined with guys throwing cedar plugs....LOL

Allen

Last year, at the warm time of the year, I was out off Capitola in my kayak and I saw a fish jump that I would have *SWORN* was a tuna...  of course, the location basically had me rubbing my eyes and second-guessing myself.  I wasn't too dazed to miss throwing some iron where I saw it, though!

I mean, I was never an ichthyologist, but I did study it in school and have a passing understanding of fish physiology.  The pectoral fin I saw was *damn* distinctive (all swept back, more so than a salmon) and the characterisic groove in the side of the body where the fin should insert was there...

Anyway, I don't know the guy or any of the facts -- but it sure makes me feel less crazy!