Interesting shadow in Gunners

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Interesting shadow in Gunners

Post by Fish-cador » Sat Jun 24, 2017 2:24 pm

I was watching the Gunnamatta surf cam around 1:50PM to 2:05PM today and something caught my attention - 2 big dark patches in the water. I thought it was just the sun's reflection on the rough water so I changed my screen's contrast. After watching the shadows for several minutes I was convinced it was not sun's reflection on the waves. The shadow merged and separated a few times on the same area. If it was a shadow of a cloud, the patches can't have a clear demarcation line in between them just a few meters apart. The fact that the shadows merged and separated a few times suggests it could be a big school of fish being chased by something causing them to separate and merge from time to time.

What are your thoughts? The last time I chanced upon something like this was 3 years ago in Gunners around December and it was 2 hours of chaos. I was foul hooking salmon on the tails, top of head and even by their ass.
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Post by Fish-cador » Sat Jun 24, 2017 2:27 pm

and they are gone...
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Post by cobby » Sat Jun 24, 2017 2:39 pm

Krill.

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Post by KeenAds » Sat Jun 24, 2017 2:51 pm

Very interesting observation there Fish Cador. Hard to say what it is but my guess is a school of bait fish such as pilchard or small mullet.

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Post by hornet » Sat Jun 24, 2017 4:35 pm

Can anyone cast that far ?
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Post by 4liters » Sat Jun 24, 2017 5:13 pm

hornet wrote:Can anyone cast that far ?
Jeremy Schrader maybe
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Re: Interesting shadow in Gunners

Post by CarlG » Sat Jun 24, 2017 5:36 pm

Salmon. Most common top schooling fish down there.

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Re: Interesting shadow in Gunners

Post by Brett » Sat Jun 24, 2017 5:44 pm

So, you are saying that in a 6m swell on that crappy cam on the slsc you can make it schooling fish.

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Post by crumpet_avenger » Sat Jun 24, 2017 6:09 pm

My wife and her friend went for a swim today... thought they said the local pool... i could be wrong though

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Post by Fish-cador » Sat Jun 24, 2017 6:49 pm

crumpet_avenger wrote:My wife and her friend went for a swim today... thought they said the local pool... i could be wrong though
2 became 1 underwater? Hmmn

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