Re: {Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} Re: Sailfish caught in Canal....in Cape Cod

If you've ever rowed a boat or waded in faster moving water, you'll understand how they get up that far.

As the Gulfstream moves north, it pushes little back eddies towards our coastline.  Normally those back eddies are cooler, but as the ocean warms in the summer those back eddies mix with warmer water that tropicals can tolerate.

Towards late summer, meaning mid-August thru September, the Gulfstream has moved warm water, plus food (eggs, plankton, detritus, nutrients, etc.) along it's travels and fish follow them.  Smaller fish, bigger fish eating the smaller fish, etc.

Once those currents get up into the coastline of the Carolinas all the way up to Massachusetts, the fish follow them, especially into tidal estuaries, bays, canals, and saltwater-fed ponds.  The temperatures stay warm until October sometime, and eventually the fish die.

In college, we would go out and use otter trawls and beach seines to collect tropicals in Shinnecock Bay on Long Island, NY.  We'd regularly pull out permit, look downs, butterfly fish, triggers, and the occasional crevalle jack.  On Long Island, people occasionally catch tarpon from Fire Island.

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Richard Farino

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From: "Eric Y." <theericyoung@gmail.com>
Reply-To: <tidal-potomac-fly-rodders@googlegroups.com>
Date: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 10:22 PM
To: <tidal-potomac-fly-rodders@googlegroups.com>
Subject: {Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} Re: Sailfish caught in Canal....in Cape Cod

I also saw some recent reports of bonefish in Wareham. Pretty wild stuff - I guess it isn't unusual for them to get up that way, but very unusual to get hooked that far north. 

On Wednesday, August 14, 2013 3:29:23 PM UTC-4, Remick wrote:

And we thought the Potomac was weird sometimes....

http://www.webring.org/hub/gonefishing?id=1050&or=pst&go

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