There were also thousand of birds that died.

Anyone know the cause?

Only in New Zealand!! I have to make my way down there one day.

It is hard enough catching these bait thieves with a shrimp bomb...but on a fly? I guess this proves anything can happen.

Tarpon must be candy to Hammerheads. I have posted about this before.
http://wefish.org/content/tarpon-vs-hammerhead

But I just saw a vid on another blog that actually scared me.

Thanks Chromer

I heard that you can do this but I have never tried it yet. I see them surfacing all the time on man made bodies of water but I always thought they were algae eaters. Someone once told me they will eat bread on the surface so you bait em and throw a "bread pattern" out. For some reason I think that is cheating.

Regardless, this is interesting.

I gotta catch one of these on a fly...I just gotta...

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/11/09/gulf.spill.food.chain/index.html?eref=m...

"What we found was that the system works. It doesn't mean everything is OK and it doesn't mean that there isn't anything out there that isn't toxic. It just explains that the ecosystem is working to process this oil as if it were food."

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/09/15/gulf.oily.layer/index.html?npt=NP1

"A team of researchers in the Gulf of Mexico say they found an oily layer as thick as two inches coating the sea floor in some places, and they believe it may be from the BP spill.

"I think what we're seeing is oil that was on the surface, that has sedimented down to the bottom," said Samantha Joye of the University of Georgia.