We stood with our surf rods checked over our shoulders like ballplayers waiting for a pitch, hoping that a school of false albacore might come sweeping down the beach.
Directly, we saw the signature silvery plumes created by a pod of false albacore breaking water -- "busting," as Blinken likes to say -- in their predatory rush at terrified bait fish.
Although stripers and, in the fall, false albacore are the preferred quarry for most northeastern, inshore flyfishers, I had for a long time harbored a secret desire to catch a monster bluefish -- one of those ferocious, 10-pound-plus fish that are commonly called Gorilla Blues.
Next came late-summer doldrums followed by the false albacore.
In the last hour of the tournament, he reeled in a false albacore.
Their return to local urban waters is heralded by the advance guard of the autumn run, false albacore.
Nature may be bountiful, as she has been with this year's run of stripers, blues and false albacore.
Mitchell's book focuses on stripers, bluefish, Atlantic bonito, false albacore, northern weakfish and hickory shad, all regularly caught in coastal waters from Cape Cod to North Carolina.
We would spend the day off Montauk Point, pursuing a smaller, inedible, but no less fierce or lovely tuna, the false albacore.
If the water is unusually warm, their exodus will be slowed, as will that of two summer-arriving species, Atlantic bonito and false albacore.
