Gannets

[OLD GOAT]

Love watching gannets feeding. My wife and i went to cape saint Mary's in Newfoundland last Sept. Talk about the end of the world. We saw about 30 000 gannets and it wasn't even nesting season

[numbskull]

Can't say I've ever been lucky enough to have this problem, but I'd try a big white danny with no tail hook thrown off behind the school and twitch/crawl it more than retrieve it. Pretty sure any big bass cleaning up after the blues would come up to have a look.

[whiplash]

A few years back a friend and I were mackeral fishing off Rockport MA. and we had a huge school of macks just under the surface and we were filling the little tin boat we were in when all of a sudden you would have thought someone dropped a cinder block from a plane and another and another --- It was aflock of gannets diving on the macks. Scared the whoopy pies right out of us . But what a sight. they would just fold up the wings and drop like a rock. I bet if they missed the water they would have gone thru the bottom of the boat.

[Al in Westport]

Originally Posted by OLD GOAT

Love watching gannets feeding. My wife and i went to cape saint Mary's in Newfoundland last Sept. Talk about the end of the world. We saw about 30 000 gannets and it wasn't even nesting season

I love Newfoundland! Wify and I have made a couple of trips over the past years. Sure would like to go one more time. The only downside is I don't think Stripers swim that far.

Arn't those bird cliffs something?

Al