Fish Mystery?

[SimJ]

Yesterday evening while fishing lb in the harbour I came across about seven 40cm+ fish swimming in perfect formation head to tail biggest to smallest. They were practically holding on to each other and near the surface.

I dropped a line in fairly near them and they simply split up and 3 or so went one way and the rest the other, no interest in feeding whatsoever and were soon gone.

A school of small bream was near by and werent even worried about them.

To me they looked like really large bream but maybe a bit thinner, way bigger than any bream ive seen.

Being fairly new to fishing I was wondering if this a common occurance with a few types of fish or if a certain species acts like this?

Any help with this would be much appreciated as i was annoyed i didnt manage to catch any or find out what they were.

Cheers,

Simmo

[locodave]

Take a pic next time!

But someone took a photo the other day of fish on the surface, think they were mullet!

Edited February 3, 2009 by locodave

[SimJ]

I wish I had taken a pic but I was more interested in catching them!

They werent like the ones in the other post, and were literally following head to tail in a long line.

Cheers anyway,

Simmo

[SimJ]