Posted by Toe on July 12, 2016 at 02:17:30
I took the family out on Saturday for a day of fishing and snorkeling. After trying the reef without much luck, I tried some trolling for mahi out deeper. In 700' of water, I found a Storm-Petrel working a slight weedline. At first I thought it could be a Band-rumped, but the flight looked all wrong. I took a closer look and realied it was a Leach's. Other that that, things continue to remain slow, with only a few birds and no mahi, fr me at least. Talk on the radio was slow as always, with only a couple of boats finding any mahi and many others not. Here is the bird list for this short outing: Leach's Storm-Petrel Brown Booby Cory's Shearwater Audubon's Shearwater Brown Noddy Bridled Tern Sooty Tern The lack of any other Storm-Petrels and very few birds is disheartening. I don't know what's going on, but things are slower than normal out there right now.