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Interesting shadow in Gunners

Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2017 2:24 pm
by Fish-cador
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.

Re: Interesting shadow in Gunners

Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2017 2:27 pm
by Fish-cador
and they are gone...

Re: Interesting shadow in Gunners

Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2017 2:39 pm
by cobby
Krill.

Re: Interesting shadow in Gunners

Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2017 2:51 pm
by KeenAds
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.

Re: Interesting shadow in Gunners

Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2017 4:35 pm
by hornet
Can anyone cast that far ?

Re: Interesting shadow in Gunners

Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2017 5:13 pm
by 4liters
hornet wrote:Can anyone cast that far ?
Jeremy Schrader maybe

Re: Interesting shadow in Gunners

Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2017 5:36 pm
by CarlG
Salmon. Most common top schooling fish down there.

Re: Interesting shadow in Gunners

Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2017 5:44 pm
by Brett
So, you are saying that in a 6m swell on that crappy cam on the slsc you can make it schooling fish.

Re: Interesting shadow in Gunners

Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2017 6:09 pm
by crumpet_avenger
My wife and her friend went for a swim today... thought they said the local pool... i could be wrong though

Re: Interesting shadow in Gunners

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