The sunrise at Kontiki was particularly pretty this morning. The two photos are seven minutes apart and you can see how fast the night turned to day. Just as I took the second picture, a huge fish swirled right next to the bulkhead behind 204. All I saw was the wake that was generated and it was as large as a boat would leave. It could not have been a porpoise since I did not see any dorsal fin. A bit later Kitty(302) called me to say she had a fish story. I went down to see her and she said just after sunrise she was outside on the deck and saw this very large fish surface next to the bulkhead and grab some mullet that had been cornered at the junction of the brakewater and bulkhead. She motioned that it was larger in length than she could extend her arms and the head was the size of a basketball, just one fish. This must have been what I saw too.
My last blog about the fish last week, and I have not tried again since Friday, elicited more response and conversation that any post in a while. Bradley Phair, former HOA board secretary in 1993, called to say his guess was a big Jack Crevalle. Jay(704) wrote to say he had seen a large gar in the marina recently. Whatever it is, it is still out there.
Below is what captain Scott Hamilton has to say about the jack crevalle.
Pound for pound, the jack crevalle will put most other fish in his neighborhood to shame.I think the crevalles, however, must have been the chronically mean fish in the family. Like a junkyard dog. Cornering baitfish and then relentlessly hammering them produces a sight that resembles almost nothing else with the exception of bluefish or tuna. They slice through the water not so much like a fish as a battering ram. A pit bull with fins is what I like to think of them as.