Amazing BFT Study from University of Maine

[MakoMatt]

As important as good intell is, it is far more rewarding when you blaze your own trail to find the fish. Then you become “The Man” who has the intell.

Fish have tails so where they might be one day can be gone the next.

And there are BFT around now.

 

[longcast]

As important as good intell is, it is far more rewarding when you blaze your own trail to find the fish. Then you become “The Man” who has the intell.

Fish have tails so where they might be one day can be gone the next.

And there are BFT around now.

And I do that too!

 

[longcast]

As important as good intell is, it is far more rewarding when you blaze your own trail to find the fish. Then you become “The Man” who has the intell.

Fish have tails so where they might be one day can be gone the next.

And there are BFT around now.

Yes. And quite close.

 

[Roccus7]

Tuna rods aboard, most effective tuna repellent known to man. I usually keep a trolling set up on board starting mid-July. Forget them, SOB!! Look at those tuna!!

Have them, don’t see a tuna within 10 nautical miles…

 

[longcast]

Tuna rods aboard, most effective tuna repellent known to man. I usually keep a trolling set up on board starting mid-July. Forget them, SOB!! Look at those tuna!!

Have them, don’t see a tuna within 10 nautical miles…

Mine are the middle ones.

 

[MakoMatt]

Mine are the middle ones.

Aftco straight butts? What reels are you pairing them up with?

 

[longcast]

Aftco straight butts? What reels are you pairing them up with?

Winthrop Adjust a butts. Talica 50’s

 

[MakoMatt]

Winthrop Adjust a butts. Talica 50’s

Nice, and the rods?

 

[longcast]

Nice, and the rods?

Calstar blanks

 

[MakoMatt]

Interesting read concerning the changes in the diet of BFT in the Gulf of Maine, from Herring to Menhaden as Herring stocks are at historically low levels.

Have to wonder what they eat, if anything, while crossing the Atlantic, and what’s for dinner when in the Mediterranean?

Atlantic bluefin tuna diets are shifting in a changing Gulf of Maine - Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment Station - University of Maine

Maine’s coastal communities have been hooked on the Atlantic bluefin tuna since at least the late 1880s — first as bycatch, until the 1930s when the fish became a prized target in fishing tournaments. Through the subsequent decades, bluefin tuna have and continue to support working waterfronts...

umaine.edu

 

[OVERBORED]

I'm Europe its a combination of squid, herring, anchovies and sardines with sardines being most prevalent.

I how much,(if at all) a change in diet will affect the taste of the tuna.

 

[Matts]

I agree. What do they eat in the mid-Atlantic

I always wonder, what makes a seagull decide to pick up and fly a few miles to to other side of the Sound. At least they can see the other side. So what triggers the BFT decision to swim 3000 miles to see what's up on the other side of the Atlantic? Are they heading to something, or do they just pick a direction and go until something turns them back?

 

[MakoMatt]

I agree. What do they eat in the mid-Atlantic

I always wonder, what makes a seagull decide to pick up and fly a few miles to to other side of the Sound. At least they can see the other side. So what triggers the BFT decision to swim 3000 miles to see what's up on the other side of the Atlantic? Are they heading to something, or do they just pick a direction and go until something turns them back?

To feed and spawn.

 

[MakoMatt]

I agree. What do they eat in the mid-Atlantic

I always wonder, what makes a seagull decide to pick up and fly a few miles to to other side of the Sound. At least they can see the other side. So what triggers the BFT decision to swim 3000 miles to see what's up on the other side of the Atlantic? Are they heading to something, or do they just pick a direction and go until something turns them back?

As to what they eat in the mid-Atlantic I would say one item on the menu would be flying fish. I have seen them often very far out in the Atlantic hundreds of miles beyond the canyons. Mahi May also be on the menu as I have watched videos of Mahi chasing flying fish. All in the food chain.