I think the pictures tell it all
What an awesome place - fished the Derby - if you get a chance DO IT!
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Nice...Striper? I think you guys were catching the wrong kind of stripers. ;D
We have a tuna similar to that in Hawaii. We call them kawakawa. I don't know the English name for those little tunas...but they re good eating.
Quote from: Bryan Young on October 14, 2014, 05:22:04 PM
Nice...Striper? I think you guys were catching the wrong kind of stripers. ;D
We have a tuna similar to that in Hawaii. We call them kawakawa. I don't know the English name for those little tunas...but they re good eating.
You are probably thinking of Bonito - those are False Albacore and do not eat well at all.
But, they are a blast to catch especially when they are charging bait right at the shoreline - looks like explosions going off!
Per http://www.identicards.com/allaboutsaltwaterfish/species.asp?fish=Kawakawa, it looks to be the same fish.
You have to like a really dark red meat fish, with a real fishy flavor. I like them best to make a poke (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poke_(Hawaii)) and brined, then dried in strips starting at about 1" square by maybe 12" long.
I rather suspect that it isn't a Kawakawa, which is an Indo-Pacific species, but rather its close cousin, the Little Tunny: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_tunny
In any event, a beautiful fish! :)
~A~
Quote from: Aiala on October 14, 2014, 11:44:59 PM
I rather suspect that it isn't a Kawakawa, which is an Indo-Pacific species, but rather its close cousin, the Little Tunny: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_tunny
In any event, a beautiful fish! :)
~A~
Correct - we call them False Albacore usually but another name is little tuny. They are in the mackerel family and are not tuna at all