Offshore Nights Seminar – Thursday March 30, 2017 – CANCELLED! Updated Videos on ROFFS™.com – Be Sure to Check Out the “Hot News” Button on the ROFFS™ Homepage Knockout                             Paddle Board Boxing! Video Courtesy: Devin Super Tramp | Facebook Please click HERE to watch the video on our website now! World’s Strongest Crab!                This crab can lift! Video Courtesy: UNILAD | Facebook Please click HERE to watch the video on our website now! Trans-Atlantic Mako!                          The Guy Harvey Great Shark Race loses a 3rd racing mako (out of 11) to fisheries.The shortfin mako “Bregardo Primary”, named after a school in the BVI, had crossed the Atlantic and appeared to be heading towards Africa when it unfortunately got captured, and then landed in Spain – see red dot in video. Video shows the tracks of 3 race makos sponsored by Virgin Unite. Losing 27% of the racers may be an indication of the intensive fishing pressure these animals are facing. The race can be followed on: www.ghritracking.org. Select Project 17. Fingers crossed the remaining 8 makos don’t face the same fate. Video Courtesy: Guy Harvey Research Institute | Facebook Please click HERE to watch the video on our website now! Blue Marlin!                       I just thought I’d share some raw footage I took from the tower of the “Singularis”. “The Hooker” was on a 700lb Blue Marlin in the Los Suenos tournament a couple of days ago. It was very cool to see one that big in a part of the world where the average fish is 200-250lb. I was very sorry to hear these guys lost this fish later in the fight. Video Courtesy: Tim Bidey | Facebook Please click HERE to watch the video on our website now! Above: Congratulations to ROFFS™ Client Jeff Waugh and crew on “Rake N Scrape”, 1st Place Overall in the Hawk’s Nest Wahoo Championship (Cat Island, Bahamas). Bahamas Season Fishing Forecast for 2017: GREAT FISHING IN THE BAHAMAS    

Since 2003 we have been developing objective methods for forecasting the overall fishing conditions during the April-June Bahamas Billfish Championship (BBC) and other important spring Bahamas tournaments. Although sadly the BBC tournaments have been canceled this year, we will continue to do these seasonal forecasts for the Bahamas fishing community and other associated tournaments and hope the BBC returns next year.

The hypothesis for forecasting the seasonal marlin fishing action stems from the location and geographic extent of the bluer and often warmer water that occurs from the Cat Island – San Salvador Island area and south to southeast where it is presumed that the marlin concentrate before, during, and after spawning. We have been calling this water “blue marlin” water. From satellite data it is relatively easy to identify this water based on its signature optical and surface water temperature characteristics. Our working hypothesis and experience have shown that the marlin are associated with this water and the more “blue marlin” water that exists in the Abaco Islands and Eleuthera Island areas, the greater the relative apparent abundance of marlin in these areas.

Also in recent years we have observed an association between this water and the yellowfin tuna action in the Bahamas, as well as, along the western side of the Gulf Stream between Jacksonville, Florida and Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. We see evidence that when more of this blue water passes northwest of Abaco to the eastern side of the Gulf Stream that a certain unknown proportion of the migratory fish move to the western side of the Gulf Stream. This brings relatively more fish to the coastal fisheries at the edges of the Gulf Stream water.

This also seems to be holding true for the canyon areas northeast to offshore of New Jersey, New York and Massachusetts when the blue water is brought to the edge of the continental shelf (100 fathoms/600 feet) starting in March or April usually by Gulf Stream eddy features. But this article is focused mainly on the blue marlin and the Bahamas area. Stay tuned to ROFFS™ for the next few weeks and into April for additional discussion related to marlin, yellowfin tuna and bigeye tuna and oceanographic conditions and seasonal fishing forecasting off the United States east coast and in the Gulf of Mexico area. Please click HERE to read the full forecast on our website now! Underwater Proposal!                     Congratulations Mim Chowdhury & Fatimah! Video Courtesy: Aquanauts Grenada | Facebook Please click HERE to watch the video on our website now! Quiet Speed!                        Freeman 42LR with Yamaha Outboards F300s. High speed run! 11 guys 400 gallons of fuel. Video Courtesy: Freeman Boatworks | Facebook Please click HERE to watch the video on our website now! Natural Lure!                  This fish uses its own nature lure, waving it to attract prey. Video Courtesy: The Australian | Facebook Please click HERE to watch the video on our website now! Backlash? Feedback?

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