Sunday, July 22, 2018

Flying Fish up close

For some reason I thought they were much smaller than that.

 Also, I always assumed they were really flying, or at least gliding. But up close I can see it was really just a hand holding them up in the air. What a fraud.





5 comments:

  1. The ones I've seen in the Gulf of Mexico were only about 4-6 inches.....they look like a little flying mullet to me....once got hit right in the chest with one trying to escape a predator of some sort, though I've rarely seen them flying more than a few inches above the water....

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  2. Off the coast of GA at F and G reef they run about a foot long. We had a cuddy cabin 30' boat that my dad and I would spend a couple of days on fishing trips to the reefs back in the 70's and 80's. I would check the deck in the mornings and we would have a few on the deck that would end up being breakfast.

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  3. As with other posters, I've had them land on the deck of my ocean-going boat, back when I had it. I never ate one, but I'm picky when it comes to which fish I eat and don't eat. They are cool fish - and I never knew about the hand-holding-them-up thing until now.

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  4. Vacationed in Barbados many times. The traditional first night dinner is fried flying fish. Several times we've chartered a boat and gone our fishing. Always love to watch them flying off in front of the boat. They don't get much altitude but they can get some remarkable distance.

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  5. "Fried flying fish"??

    Try ordering that when you're half in the bag.

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