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09-10-2011, 02:33 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Quincy
Posts: 4,145
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Another Weird Sighting
I fished today starting just a daybreak.
Got some pogies then some macks for live lining. 
Did very well with 6 bass from 30 inches to 30+ pounds. I was back at the dock by 1 and the folks at the marina wanted me to throw it on the grill. But this one is for my dinner sorry !!!!!
So anyway.......while into this good bass fishing, I see this dark area in the water.
I thought it was a floating weed patch, but it was moving and getting closer. Then I saw a fin and thought it was a small shark. But it was flopping back and forth.
Yes it was a mola-mola. 
A small one about 3-4 feet long.
What a STRANGE looking fish..
I hardly ever see them and never in this close.
I was in like 10-14 feet of water right off a beach. |
~..~..~.. ><((((º>
Things done at the last possible minute are done with the greatest possible information. Procrastination is, therefore, the most efficient means of doing things.
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09-10-2011, 02:38 PM
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Old Guy
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Mansfield, MA
Posts: 8,760
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Bet that one will come through the canal on the way back
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09-10-2011, 05:10 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2001
Posts: 7,649
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They get really big (like 1000#)...I see several each season out here. They like to eat jellyfish. A friend hit one at 30knots offshore on the way to the canyon...broke a blade off a SS prop! I was a slow ride back.
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09-10-2011, 06:44 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Braintree
Posts: 16
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I saw something wierd too
I watched this thing drive on to the beach on it's own power then back into the water and retract the wheels. I want one
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"The sea was angry that day, my friends, like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli... " - George Costanza
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09-11-2011, 09:13 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Between a rock and a hard place
Posts: 540
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Believe it or not, on 2 different occasions I saw a mola mola jump out of the water, and no I wasn't drinking.
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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day ...
show him where to fish and ... you'll be sorry
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09-11-2011, 09:21 AM
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"Fishbucket"
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Bahston Hahbah
Posts: 6,588
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Usually see a few a year offshore and they van be huge. And yes they can jump also
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device
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09-11-2011, 10:15 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Cape Cod
Posts: 946
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This guy wasn't boat shy 
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Fly & Light Tackle Fishing
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09-11-2011, 05:11 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: On my boat
Posts: 9,703
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Had one at the transom of my boat last weekend offshore in the middle of the night.
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LETS GO BRANDON
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09-12-2011, 06:27 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: somerset
Posts: 37
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also known as the "ocean speed bump"
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Regards,
JEMc
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09-12-2011, 09:03 AM
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What was that!?!
Join Date: May 2005
Location: East Kingston, NH
Posts: 3,108
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had one check out the the boat out sharkin last year. we could have touched it. he left when the sharks showed up. |
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09-12-2011, 09:06 AM
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Guess what...
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: A drinking town with a fishing problem...
Posts: 113
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We saw the same one....out by Harding's. Very cool.
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09-24-2011, 09:48 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2011
Posts: 5
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Very cool fish. Also called an ocean sunfish. We see them often fishing near Cranes Beach.
Thanks, Stefano.
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09-25-2011, 05:19 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: south shore , ma
Posts: 669
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van where did you see it , i saw a small one in presidents road today . i was heading in and i thought it was a shark fin at first but upon closer look the fin was moving back and forth . i tried to get a up close look but it sounded just as i made it foward .i wonder if the fish is ill because i thought they eat only jellyfish and that season has past ?  |
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09-26-2011, 07:44 AM
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zoom
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Quincy
Posts: 4,145
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Saw it near Hull first time.
Saw it again last Wednesday near 3-1/2. A buddy called me from his boat to say he sees something wierd and a fin. I told him what it was and we were nearby. Sure enough it was the mola it went right under his boat.
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~..~..~.. ><((((º>
Things done at the last possible minute are done with the greatest possible information. Procrastination is, therefore, the most efficient means of doing things.
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09-26-2011, 11:43 AM
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Keywest225
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Marina Bay Quincy
Posts: 34
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Blue Oyster : Ditto - I also saw this in President Roads, just SW of Deer Island. We thought it was an injured shark - all we saw at first was a fin, a whitish belly and a large fish swimming sideways. Then we circled around and got a better look.
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09-26-2011, 01:04 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Hyde Park, MA
Posts: 4,152
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I had seen my first one years ago while out on a fishing charter.
It passed under the boat from the opposite side from me and emerged from under the boat right under where I was standing.
Saying this thing was huge would be an understatement. It was more that 1/3 the boat length in size (from fin to fin). When I saw the head, I realized what it was, and then when I realized how big it was I wish I had a camera!
They are a very unusual fish!
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