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Boating Experience Beginner Intermediate Expert. Where to fish and boat. Fishing tips and gear. Boating tips. Boat types. Boating safety. Check box if you are 18 years old. Subscribe to our monthly newsletter. In other words we want to make sure there are enough around for predators. And can we protect them under this amendment as such? To most inshore anglers, albies certainly appear to be more of a predator. But if you spend time in the deep, you know damn well they get eaten, A LOT.
In short, hell yeah they are forage. But it appears only for large pelagics. Note: the Mid-Atlantic Council does not manage large pelagics, like tunas and billfish. Pretty clear off-the-bat why this might be problematic. They did this by using broad family classifications instead of specific species. If the Mid-Atlantic decided to go this route, albies would simply be included under the Scombridae family. I mean, the original intent of the Unmanaged Forage action, as I understand it, was to protect Mid-Atlantic forage species.
Not just the food that summer flounder, bluefish, etc. Pretty sure the Council had the entire marine ecosystem in mind! It is part of the same marine ecosystem. And clearly false albacore is a species that the angling public is concerned about and wants addressed. Wow… A FEW?! I think there are a ton of anglers that would really like to see false albacore protected!
The bottom line is they need to stay on the list. The biggest thing I have learned? Albies are erratic. There is no rhyme or reason to when they show up, and once you think you have it all figured out, everything changes. For me, the quest to solve the albie puzzle, to comprehend their sporadic behavior, is the real hunt with false albacore.
I am by no means an expert on catching albies and anyone who tells you they are is a liar , but I have learned a few tricks the hard way. Following are six steps that will help treat your own addiction. The first step in understanding albies is to come to terms with the fact that they spend only 0.
But trust me, they bite almost as well when they are stealthily cruising below the surface. A common mistake I see is when anglers cast only at breaking fish. I have caught way more albies blind-casting versus casting into breaking fish. The more time your lure is moving in the water, the better your odds of intercepting one and getting a bite. An albie lure dangling from a rod tip is as useless as an unloaded gun.
Cast, reel, repeat. Over and over. Keep casting. When blind-casting, resist the urge to make long, hero casts launching your lure as far as possible. You will be better served with shorter casts. These fish are just incredibly fast; they also have incredible eyesight.
The last thing you want an albie to do is get a good look at a piece of plastic or metal, no matter how realistic it is. The faster your retrieve, the less they see, plain and simple. False albacore are also competitive. If you can get several fish to chase your bait, the odds go up and the fish are more apt to make a mistake. Try to keep it just below the surface, occasionally breaking it, which will catch their attention. Keep your rod tip as low to the water as possible and pause your retrieve a couple of times to allow your offering to sink a bit.
Last year, I fished exactly the same lure for the duration of the albie run. Why not?
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