Mola mola south of Moriches

HOLY MOLA, looks like easy prey for any shark... cellfish...
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This guys videos are usually great. Would be cool to see one.

Every time i see one i think the good lord must of gotten interrupted while creating that fish

Every time i see one i think the good lord must of gotten interrupted while creating that fish

I always assumed He ran out of parts.

Just like I thought when He made Sea Robins there was a bunch of stuff laying around and He just threw it together to clear out the shop. I mean, who would make a fish with wings that can't fly?

They are very cool to see, but not generally shark bait. I actually saw on in LIS during the late 70s. In 2015 they were all over the place up here, so numerous that the local Monhegan Island ferry operator had to station a bow lookout so they didn't ram them during their trips.

I'll try digging up and posting my video and/or photos later.

As promised, The Maine Mola Mola Summer, 2015...

I was sharking on a no drift really hot day sitting on the gunnel and in the corner of my eye I can see what looked like two huge fish swimming up from the deep. Then I realized it was a pair of a pair of these 1/2 a fish.

HOLY MOLA, looks like easy prey for any shark... cellfish...
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The Mola Mola look to be so slow & helpless I am always suprised that the sharks haven't eaten every last one of them by now.
John

Seen Sun Fish many times in Montauk..... they are so big.

See them all the time yrs ago I dunno how but I hooked one they dont budge

See them all the time yrs ago I dunno how but I hooked one they dont budge

using TT for bait?

using TT for bait?

Nope

They're not as helpless as one would think.

They do look slow and clumsy but what they are doing is finning into the current and eating little jellyfish as they drift by. Suprisingly the sometimes leap clear out of the water and land back in on their side in an effort to rid themselves of parasites which are attached to their hide. treemanjb

I was trolling around Cranes Neck two years ago in my kayak and had a foot tall fin pop up twenty feet in front of me. For a brief second I had that "Oh Shit" thought. Then it flopped over, what a relief.
Never seen one jump. Have seen them the size of a car though.

many moons ago talked to a kid who did not know any better and stuck a gaff in one while tuna chunking he said the thing went totally ape s__t bent the gaff handle into a pretzel and almost ended up in the cockpit.

Yeah they seem docile, but they're big and they can do some serious damage if you poke at them...

I was trolling around Cranes Neck two years ago in my kayak and had a foot tall fin pop up twenty feet in front of me. For a brief second I had that "Oh Shit" thought. Then it flopped over, what a relief.
Never seen one jump. Have seen them the size of a car though.

I've never seen them in the sound.

Yeah they seem docile, but they're big and they can do some serious damage if you poke at them...

This is one of those "kids don't do this at home" I was shark fishing with a friend on his boat, who brought along a friend that downed a six-pack before the lines were in. It was a slow hot day and he just kept on drinking. Early afternoon and a Sun Fish, about the size of the one in the video shows up and it's just mozying along. Suddenly I hear a splash and its the drunk diving into the water. He swims right up to it and went to put his arm around it and the thing came flying out of the water. The moron ended up with a gash that took a lot of stitches. He was so drunk he didn't even know he was cut.