thousands of gannets...

[giantfan]

I didn't know that the gannets would go after bunker like that. I always thought that bunker were too big for them.

I always thought that when we had the gannets working up here it was on herring.

Just proves that I have no idea what the hell I'm doing out there.

[Bodie]

Yeah its pretty damn scary when those things are dive bombing all around the boat. I bet they would become embedded into the boat if they hit it.

But man it is awesome to watch upclose

[Regulator]

Seen the gannets beehiving show at VA beach and it is a sight to behold, so was the three of us bowed up with big stripers on every cast on our LJT. The poor bunker were getting it from top & bottom nowhere to hide. The bigger question is; are there BFT under that biomas you guys are seeing now.

[merry marlin]

Have trawled many times through those Gannets in previous years and never caught anything. They work well together with dolphins and Cormorants too... Insisted in getting stripers in the shoals when they do that only to get albies and drum... At least if they show up that might mean that some blue things may show up again!
MM

[backman]

This came out of that gannet line off Chatham in 137' of water.

And yes - it was southern style on a seawitch ballyhoo on a planer.

[Jesse Lockowitz]

i just dont think they are on drum/trout. the MASS of these birds was just huge. like i said, several thousand in a small area, contiuously diving for 7-8hrs. if that was bunker, they'd be decimated lol , or a bunch of fatas gannets layin on the surface going UGHHHHH


marty, they were all around from BIP down to the shoals @ bogue today, nothing like the mass of yesterday, but still around.


yesterday was just unruly. i havnt seen that since ive lived here in THAT mass size.



if they are like that this weekend , and the surf is calm enough geoff, i WILL have the kayak out there just too see wtf they are eating.

maybe ill put my 80w on the yak too

[netman9]

This is a picture from a few years back off VA Beach. I think bobdu11 has some video that really shows gannets in action.

[backman]

FWIW - inside the bluefin pictured above was.....


There were herring around and we didn't gut any gannets to check their stomachs but it sure seemed to me they were diving on sandeels.

[Jesse Lockowitz]

thats what it looked like alright, but even more mass at some points. just looked like artilary practice lol

baring weather im gona try and see wtf is out there this weekend.

[Captain Michael Buffington]

at Clipperton Atoll we were easing up to a massive birdschool with 200lbers all under it when the gannets started dive bombing the deck boxes full of caballitos It is kind of unerving standing on the deck box chumming with those things shooting by your ear at 100 mph. We took some plywood and cut it to fit over the boxes

Mike