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Old 09-05-2014, 05:20 PM   #1
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light tackle bonito fun

Hey guys, I thought I would post a quick report of my light tackle fooling around at la jolla. You may not all get this but I'm from the east coast and we consider bonito to be one of the most desirable light tackle fish. Mostly the appeal is their surface feeding tendencies, they can be hard to catch, only show up for a short window and can throw down some screaming runs with light line. I went out after hearing about their arrival and wasn't disappointed. Casting small metals I caught 6 bones up to about 6# along with a handful of large macks. I was hoping for a rogue yellow but never got one. I did see another guy bag a white sea bass on the yoyo jig though so that was cool.
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Old 09-05-2014, 05:34 PM   #2
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Glad u got on the bones. Where were u fishing ?
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Old 09-05-2014, 07:04 PM   #3
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Its always fun when you hook 3-4 boonies on a sibiki when searching for bait. They f%*^ up the sibiki, but fun non the less!
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Old 09-06-2014, 10:31 AM   #4
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They do have bonito in the Atlantic but do they also call false albacore bonito some times? Bonito are a blast to catch no doubt. Our local bones have been scarce over the last 4-5 years and its good to see them back. It you have ice it's worth keeping 1 or 2. Thanks for the report. Mike
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Old 09-07-2014, 09:51 AM   #5
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The first one is a false albacore- they are close to a true tuna and in the euthynnus family. They are probably my favorite fish as they surface feed a lot, are strong as hell and peel serious drag as they can swim at 40mph.
The atlantic bonito is sarda sarda and is a true bonito which shares a family with the spanish macks like sierras and ceros and of course the pacific bonito. People often get these confused when talking about them because in the south albies are called bonita with an a at the end.
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Old 09-07-2014, 10:10 AM   #6
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caught some bonies at the bait receiver in mission bay on my ultra light gear. lots of fun (even though they were smaller than yours). swimbaits and rapala's worked well.
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Old 09-07-2014, 11:52 AM   #7
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The first one is a false albacore- they are close to a true tuna and in the euthynnus family. They are probably my favorite fish as they surface feed a lot, are strong as hell and peel serious drag as they can swim at 40mph.
The atlantic bonito is sarda sarda and is a true bonito which shares a family with the spanish macks like sierras and ceros and of course the pacific bonito. People often get these confused when talking about them because in the south albies are called bonita with an a at the end.
Monstafish...that top fish is what we called "Little Tunny" when fishing in Florida. Most importantly, I think it's the same fish on the Sponge Bob Square Pants opening:

Spongebob Fish:
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Old 09-07-2014, 09:54 PM   #8
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I had no idea about the spongebob thing that's pretty dead on as far as cartoons go. Is it a character or just in the intro? Pretty sweet that the bones come into the bays here I'll have to check that out. And yeah on the tunny it's funny how many names one fish can have up and down the same coast.
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