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Originally posted by richs
If the body shape is accurate, I'd say they are jacks. Pretty rare up there, but not unheard of.
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That picture looks close, color is not what i remember. I'm not good at drawing pictures on the computer. I changed the tail a little and the head. so this picture are closer to what I saw.
I wish I had kept it now. It looked like a school of them feeding on small bait. I could see tails and fins in the water all around the kayak. Some looked a lot bigger than the one I got, judging by the size of the fins and the distance between the front fin and the tail fin.
I didnt bring the camera that day because I had rolled the yak a couple of times that day in the surf, waves were 3-4' close to shore and nice rollers when I got out a 1/4 mile from shore. I could see bait jumping out of the water 100 yd's to each side of me and I was drifting in the middle of this for 15 - 20 minutes. Before I had the fish on I thought it was a blue fish blitz.
As for the first one I hooked into, the fish jumped straight into the air. Then took off pulling out line for 25-30 seconds, at this time the yak was up to the same speed as the fish pulling me and I was pulled around for 10 to 15 minutes. I could reel in line everytime the fish slowed or turned. When I got the fish close (25-30 minutes) it pulled of 15-20 yd of line in a fast run darting in circles everytime I got it close to the yak. This happened at least 10 times before I could grab the fish with the lip gripper. Then it took almost 5 minutes of moving the fish back and forth under water before the fish took off.
Nils