10-20-2003, 12:11 AM
Hi there gvanzant,
I love it when a flock of gulls appears and comes right down the pipe just a short cast from the boat.
I don't know much about the birdies but I read an article by a captain on the East Coast talking about some of his fellow captains being able to tell not only what kind of fish was being hovered over but what the fish were doing. He named four or five different birds and the most common bait they went after and what sportfish was most likely to be under that bait. He said sometimes you can even tell a bait by the smell (his example was manhaden) of the carnage.
JapanRon
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