Blue and silver Dorado
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Beautiful.
Blue Dorado Mahi Mahi
Silver Dorado
QuoteIn Mexico, mahi-mahi are called dorado, or “the golden one.”
The fish are prized by sport anglers because of their acrobatics and quality of flesh, but also for their spectacular golden hues.
While feeding or fighting on the hook, dorado will often flash different variations of these, ranging from greenish yellow to brilliant gold.
But occasionally, though very infrequently, one will come up that does not look anything like the others, which Dave Maynard discovered recently while fishing off Rancho de Costa resort in southern Baja California.
Maynard, host of Fish the Baja, was part of a group that caught 154 dorado in four days—presumably releasing most of them. A few of them were sky-blue.
“POWDER blue dorado … AMAZING colors!” tweeted Maynard.
Veteran Baja anglers expressed varying opinions on the rarity of blue dorado. (I personally have caught dozens of dorado, and have seen dozens more caught, and have never seen a blue specimen.)
Tracy Ehrenberg, who runs Pisces Sportfishing in Cabo San Lucas, described the catch as rare.
Mark Rayor, who runs Jen Wren Sportfishing in Buena Vista on the Sea of Cortez, said: “They’re an odd fish and turn all sorts of colors. Once in a while we get a silver one that looks really cool.” (Rayor’s photo of a silver dorado is posted at right.)
Eric Brictson of Gordo Banks Pangas, also on the Sea of Cortez, said: “We have seen dorado have the ability to change their color shade, particularly when aggressively in the feeding mode.
“Once they have been caught and placed in the fish box, their color patterns normally return the darker green color. [The top photo], though, does appear to show a dorado that is much bluer than you would normally see, though not unprecedented.”
Not unprecedented, perhaps, but pretty as a picture.
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Saw this pic a while back and saved it...beautiful fish.
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If I remember right, the mahi in Hawaii seemed more blue. Those were the only ones I had ever seen while I was fishing with Terry Chung off Kauai for a few months.
Then I'd see pics of ones from the Atlantic and they seemed more greenish and gold. -
Cool pictures, thanks guys.:thumbsup2:
Cheers, Don
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The green and gold seems to be their default. But ive seen mahi do some cuttlefish like lightshows on their way out and turn all sorts of silver and blue sometimes with pulsing stripes. I took this pic last year. It went from normal to almost completely silver and blue and then back in a pretty short amount of time. Those fish above look like they are mutated in a way that causes them to look like that all the time.
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