The ANOSIM test indicated a similar diet composition among sexes (R=0.017), size classes (R=0.062), and capture times (R=0.020), and diet differences among months of capture (R=0.400, P=0.01; January=Argonauta spp., Auxis spp., jumbo squid; February=jumbo squid; October=Auxis spp., smallwing flyingfish [Oxyporhamphus micropterus], Fig.

Bulk weights of flyingfishes were also kept separate from the numbers of flyingfishes landed, but these weights were not converted to numbers of fish.

Like dolphin, blackfin stomach contents showed high contents of herring, sardines, menhaden and flyingfish, with only 1 out of 55 stomachs examined containing ballyhoo.

First, mullet look like flyingfish, a prolific offshore forage fish eaten by most, if not all, pelagic species.

Area was also an important predictor of flyingfish predation; 15% of the apparent variation in the %W was explained by area (north, west, and southeast vs.

Offshore schools of ballyhoo and flyingfish are part of this migration as well.

Likewise, if flyingfish are widespread in an area, he trolls lures that are blue and white.

"About a 1-pound flyingfish. It came across the starboard side and hit a customer in the back while I was running about 30 knots.

At 140 feet we pushed up to an underwhelming color change, no grass, current or upwelling, so I wasn't expecting much, until a wall of juvenile flyingfish went airborne.

Also, numbers of flyingfish are a good indicator that sailfish may be near.

Many bluewater trolling lures are designed to replicate the profile and swimming action of a flyingfish. These surface-dwelling, silvery, elongated fish are a common prey item of sailfish, dolphin, tuna and more.

One of the most exciting and specialized ways to catch a big blackfin is by trolling a flyingfish from a kite.