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What Are These Circle Marks?


james7

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Any ideas what could have made the marks on this bonito?

We caught half a dozen bonito, but only this one had these circle markings.

To see the fishing report, click here

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Cheers

Peter

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A crop-circle bonito?!!!

Typical reply from you Skip! :074:

speed holes , homer simpson pioneered it

Good one iggy :074:

My first thought was squid or octopus, but bonito are fast. Maybe a squid grabbed the bonito after it was caught once???

The rings were different sizes too. The smaller circle marks were on the head. (I wish I'd taken more photos)

(click on the photo to see it full size)

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It was not a big bonito. I reckon the larger circles were less than a cm.

Bit of a mystery eh? Any more ideas?

Cheers

Peter

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Not an Octopus... Occies don't have 'teeth' on their suckers. If you look at the close up pics you can see the 'tooth' marks on each ring. Squid and Cuttlefish have 'denticulated' tentacles (toothed) so one of them is your culprit most probably.

Cheers, Slinky

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Not an Octopus... Occies don't have 'teeth' on their suckers. If you look at the close up pics you can see the 'tooth' marks on each ring. Squid and Cuttlefish have 'denticulated' tentacles (toothed) so one of them is your culprit most probably.

Cheers, Slinky

Slinky's right on. It's definitely not an octopus. It's a squid/cuttlefish, and a big one too.

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This image is of a squid tentacle. When compared to the marks on the bonnie, its exactly the same. The little suckers are also present there, which was the first thing I noticed... and Octopuses don't have these little suckers.

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Are they smiley stamps for being good in "school"

tangled1

No tangled1, as Slinky and zephi said, the bonito in the pictures above above was probably hit by a squid.

The fish pictured below is the bonito that was "good in school"!

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If you look carefully, you can see the difference. :074:

Cheers

Peter

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No tangled1, as Slinky and zephi said, the bonito in the pictures above above was probably hit by a squid.

The fish pictured below is the bonito that was "good in school"!

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If you look carefully, you can see the difference. :074:

Cheers

Peter

LOLOLOL

:074:

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