Thousands of purple jellyfish blanket Pacific beaches

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Last time I went perch fishing the entire beach was already covered with those little blue rose petal looking jellies. That was almost a month ago.

One of the blues I shot Saturday was literally STUFFED with these things....when I gutted it on the beach fuzz and shark bait picked em up and threw em at me.

 

 

Sincerely,

Jim

Interesting that blues eat them.  The more predators of jellies the better.  There is a new prediction that jellies could become a major problem for all of the oceans, because of the environmental changes. 

Interesting that blues eat them.  The more predators of jellies the better.  There is a new prediction that jellies could become a major problem for all of the oceans, because of the environmental changes.

Stuffed I say....fat piggy football. 

I've seen blues eating all kinds of jellies....I took my brother in law out by ghost trees once and there were a bunch of those big sea nettle jellies in close and the blues were gorging on em.

Just had to lay still on surface and wait for the blue you wanted to come take a bite of jelly and then shoot him. 

Made a frikkin mess when you gutted em all on the yak though.

 

 

Sincerely,

Jim

I remember May 2005, when I lived in Humboldt.  Thousands of these by-the-wind sailors were floating in and out with the tides, and littered the beaches.  This was before I got into kayak fishing.  I would go out on the beach with a grocery bag, pick up a bunch of the jellies washed onto shore, then take them out on the jetty.  Rig a large jelly (or two small ones) on a size 4 octopus hook rigged on 10 pound braid and a light spinning rod.  No weight or anything, just the hook with the jelly.  Flip it out and let it float on the surface.  The blue rockfish would CRUSH it just like a bass on a topwater.  It was sooooo fun!  If you wanted blacks, just add a couple splitshot above the hook so it would slowly sink, and the blacks would gobble the jelly before it reached the bottom.  The most interesting part was the rockfish weren't interested in anything else, only jellies.  Other guys would fish out there with the normal rockfish gear and were getting skunked.  Meanwhile, I was limiting out on fat 3+ pound blues by flylining the jellies.

It kinda happened again the following year, but by 2007 it was all but done.  So if you see fish busting on the surface and the by-the-wind sailors are floating around, give it a shot  .

I was fishing salmon at the cove last weekend and the rockfish were crushing these things onthe surface.  Blacks mostly.  It was an insane top water feeding frenzy.  I saw it last year at ORC at depoe bay with blues too.  THey love these things.

HMB was full of them on Sunday.

they are down here as well.

Was awesome to see Blues busting the surface eating those things at SWS last weekend! Almost all the fish I caught were coughing them up as well.  Sure look weird half digested