We were drifting this past beautiful fall Sunday and I had seen what looked like tuna fins on the top of the water, then I thought it was shark, and when it got close, it was this 8 ft. diameter Ocean Sunfish. This thing was in a good fluke rip and in about 15-20ft of water, strange, I've seen them further offshore but never so far in. Must be off course and not good eating or I would have boated it, ha!

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a184/thundra04struck/100_4701.jpg

How kool! :shocked: :cool:
I thought sun fish reside in tropical water...
Must be global warming...

We have sunfish around locally from roughtly mid May to the Beginning of November.

And they do wonders to the running gear of boats!

They're in the Canal regularly this time of the year ;)

i saw it too down in scusset at first i thought it was a shark or dolphine then i saw it.... those things are sooo weried looking no tail

seen 1 sat in canal .. very commin at this time of yr...sea turtles also sharks,.....

saw a sea turtle(small about 1 foot) sunday, also saw this sunfish.Its a awsome vid i took. (:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1j7-jD4xJY

I was out about 3-4 weeks ago east of Stellwagen,
we saw what I first thought was a shark coming towards us, then as it got closer realized it was a sunfish!
Got real close to the boat, I went to the bow and cast a BIG popper off it's head to see what it would do, the thing never flintched,
just kept moping allong !!!

I saw one coming out of Robinson's Hole on Monday morning around 10 am, it was all black though.

It must have come up from the bottom to warm up being so dark in color, did't have my camara either, always see this chit when I have nothing to get a pic.

Was you out by the Elizabeth's on Monday? If you were then I wasn't the only one out there taking a beating from the waves and wind, damn weatherman says "today will be better than Sunday" I wish I could've had him in my boat Monday ... he'd still be swimming to shore!

Nice pic of the sunfish.

One of those was swimming around in my favorite shore spot at slack the last time I went. The big fins were slowly undulating back and forth, cool to watch.