Current Temp Charts at OSS Website

[captlen]

Check out our current ocean temperature charts at www.offshoresatelliteservices.com captured on 1-31-08. Click on Members Only Cape Cod to Cape Hatteras. Use OSS as both a username and a password.

Capt. Len Belcaro
Offshore Satellite Services

[bobdu11]

I have a question..I fished that water that came on to the 100 fathom line last Saturday at the Norfolk Canyon.....only thing there was Bonita and sharks....why would there not be any Longfin, YFT, BFT, ?? Water was greyish looking.....break was about 50Deg - 68 Degrees...lots of bait...nothing but acres and acres of Bonita.....Bob

[captlen]

I have a question..I fished that water that came on to the 100 fathom line last Saturday at the Norfolk Canyon.....only thing there was Bonita and sharks....why would there not be any Longfin, YFT, BFT, ?? Water was greyish looking.....break was about 50Deg - 68 Degrees...lots of bait...nothing but acres and acres of Bonita.....Bob

Bob
What 41000 line did you cross over the 100 fathom curve?

[JB2C]

Bad link for me. Didn't work.

JB

[BigSteads]

I have a question..I fished that water that came on to the 100 fathom line last Saturday at the Norfolk Canyon.....only thing there was Bonita and sharks....why would there not be any Longfin, YFT, BFT, ?? Water was greyish looking.....break was about 50Deg - 68 Degrees...lots of bait...nothing but acres and acres of Bonita.....Bob

I would only say that even though the temp. and bait was their, you are still dealing with a migratory speicies. I think you would have alot of stragglers possibly but not the typical sized fish that would normally inhabit that water in say...june-july.

[captlen]

Bad link for me. Didn't work.

JB

Should work now JB

[captlen]

I would only say that even though the temp. and bait was their, you are still dealing with a migratory speicies. I think you would have alot of stragglers possibly but not the typical sized fish that would normally inhabit that water in say...june-july.

I would agree will BS on migratory species, but also with the water temps as cold as they are inshore, subsurface water temps very well may be colder than normal. Don't know how high in the water column the 68 degree water starts or how cold the water is below the thremocline.
What kind of sharks did you see out there? If the are blue sharks they're a cold water species.

[bobdu11]

The break crossed the 100 fathom line at about the 440 and ran up through the eastern mouth of the canyon...the squid was stacked up big time on the temp break as the bonita were puking up loads of squid when we brought em onboard...

there were mainly hammerheads and some mako's...another boat out there with me that day hooked up about a 200pound mako first thing in the morning but it got off shortly after hookup....

there was great signs....pods of two tones, pilot whales and Trax had a big whale breach about 200 feet off his port side...I never saw the big whale but there was definately life on the temp break...water looked like crap though..dingy steel grey looking....

oh well..we had to try it...lots of longlines out there on the 100fathom curve so I'm sure a sword trip would have produced...might see if that water is still holding south of the Cigar at the 000's on Sunday.....I'm bored with striper fishing already...Bob