Albacore off the Beach??

If one got separated 'cause of illness or genetic defect it might eventually run up against a shoreline.

I'm not trying to say there's a school of albacore of new brighton, but that stranger things have happened than
one lone lost fish being caught.

But that guy is a regular on the sniffer, so if he's lying it will come out.

best,

J

p.s. good to know there are barracuda about, mine came on a blue and silver deep diving rebel,  .
it's surprising what you catch when you have no clue sometimes! 

Oh, I think this hookie guy is good.  We oughta get him in a yak, and outta that float tube and onto this board!

Allen

ps- I'll offer to take him out in one of my yaks...let's see what happens.

Well...I won't doubt it! I'll leave it as it sounds. But, I've seen albacore porpus and breaking water,chasing bait at the bell buoy in Monterey bay during a start of El Nino. That's approximately one mile from the breakwater of the harbor. It is a big ocean and anything is possible. If its so. I would like to here more about it and How long did it take to land it?




 

It sounds like this Hookie guy would give the Savage a run for the crown.

Pat-

If I fished until the day I die... I'll never hook up a albi off of the surf. I'm just not that lucky. Hookie should've played the lottery after hooking that baby up. I would've...

Freddie "Savage"

I know him and fish with him and it's for real!
He is blessed by the fishing gods. I fished the spot he got his new personal best largemouth this last Friday, three minutes before he got there, and got a small male, and moved past it. He cast in and nailed a 9.1 pounder! He is that kind of LUCKY.
He told me of his unusual experience on the beach and knew there would be doubters. It is all true!

I want to hit the surf with some iron and see if I could nail one, but I just am not that kind of lucky guy!

P.S. All those who slam him (for telling a true fishing story) are risking bad karma from the fishgods! Beware.

P.S. All those who slam him (for telling a true fishing story) are risking bad karma from the fishgods! Beware

Everyone is entitled to their opinions and beliefs and that's what makes this forum interesting. A majority of the good people on this board don't really know this guy and that's why there was doubt. And no one ever said he was a lousy fisherman either. Wishing bad karma upon others is bad karma itself.

As far as I know, the men and women of this forum are very nice, despite difference of opinions, and deserve all the good karma!

Peace, Love and Harmony!
Yakster101

Not wishing anything onto anybody yakster101!
Just reminding them of that "What goes around, Comes around" thing.

Peace and Love to all!
I know there are a whole lot of good people here! I saw it firsthand when everybody supported a friend of mine after his Yak was stolen. I can't call him pontoon James anyomore. It's strictly KAYAK James! Plus I've met some of you'all on the water and a good and friendly bunch you are!

(HOOkie did post an additional picture with the fish lying on the sand next to the pole he caught it on.It's later in that same thread, if anyone wants to see.)

My buddy Matt Bond was telling me a story last night of the world record albi for spearfishing.  I think he said it came from Hawaii and it was shot with a small euro gun in an 8 ft. deep pool by a kid who was just out spearing some parrot fish.  Crazy things can happen out there.  He was telling me a story of some book he read about catching tuna off the beach all up and down our coast 100 years ago.  I can't remember the author, but it is  to think about how much our fishery has declined in the past 100 years. 
Dave

I am a believer in crazy things can happen.  I also don't think anyone on here is questioning the character of Hookie.  However I am skeptical but not convinced it couldn't happen. .   What was he using a Mickey jig for in the first place if they were targeting perch.  Having said that, I saw pic, I must believe.  I hope it happens again.  

He does say his kid didn't want to fish, so he just started hucking his striper lures.
if his kid had wanted to fish, they would have fished for perch. Well, my boys are
6 and 8, and you can't force them to do something, and they change their
minds a lot. So it's good to have a backup plan.

says he hucked all his striper lures until he settled on the mickey for a bit.

But this story is not even the craziest one I believe.

What about the story of paul the deaf guy wrestling a 130+lb tuna to the beach
in the 80's, @ waddell creek? Nobody believes him, but I do.  It's just too crazy
and he doesn't have a pattern of other wild tales.

I also believe this Hookie guy about the albie. I do think that it was probably a sick
albie, a one lone albie, but an albie nonetheless.


J

Albacore don't get to 200#.  That's a bigeye tuna.

-Allen

I remain a skeptic on this one.........

checking with the most knowledgeable albacore expert that I know (actually- the 2d most knowledgeable behind a commercial guy/guru), there has never ever been a documented catch of albacore in Monterey Bay closer than 7miles offshore  in less than 1000 feet of water.

Curretly the albacore schools are just reaching the area South of San Diego.  Later the schools will move up the warm offshore currents past Monterey Bay and Oregon/Washington area.  It makes no sense whatsoever for an albacore to be this far North without the school this time of year.

Smart thing fro Hookie to have done if he really caught that fish here this month would have been to go to the harbor, yelling and screaming in the bait shops with the fish in his hand....or contact ANY independent credible witness to back up the story for later, ineivitable doubters like me.   A picture is worth a thousand words, but lies are words also.....

Allen

yeah, I didn't say paul's tuna was an albacore.  In his story, he does bring it to the marina
and they try to cite him for fishing without a license.

I still believe this hookie guy. Sometimes animals end up out of their natural habitat. 

coyotes in central park, etc.

ask the albacore expert if the fish would die if it came up north or got into 50 degree water.
that would be interesting.

Because in the big scheme of things an off course albacore (even by a few hundred miles) is still
not that hard to believe. 

as for no reported catches, how would they be reported? by who? people catch fish all the time and
just quietly take them home and eat them.

you know they have tarpon in the pacific now? came through the panama canal.

You can't judge this story by the habits of the normal albacore.
I don't think it's a repeatable thing. But it's not an impossible thing.