Looking for spots with big schools of fish

[gimik]

Hi everybody

I'm looking around for a new divespot. I love big schools of fish. Like jacks, fusiliers, baracudas whatever. I just love it when it is full of fishes and a lot of action. This is my fasination. Does anybody has a good hint where to go? I've already been to: Raja Ampat, Komodo and other places in Indonesia, Sipadan, Egypt. Maybe you know bit more what I like if you look at my video. https://vimeo.com/99907920 at 1.40 it starts what my facination is about. Hunting, Schools of fish and action.

Can somebody help me with some hints?

Thanks a lot.

 

[Manuel Sam]

Cocos, Fakarava (French Polynesia) for big schools of fish. I've seen dolphins hunting the big school of Bigeye Trevallys at Dirty Rock in Cocos. Has to be an early morning dive.

I've heard that Cabo Pulmo in the Sea of Cortes in Mexico also has big schools of fish.

I've seen the hunting action of Trevallys on silversides that I think you shot in Raja Ampat in Maldives.

 

[tomfcrist]

Big schools of fish eh???

Try the center of the universe...North Carolina.

Big schools of baitfish, barracuda, sharks, and the list goes on.

 

[Hank49]

I..ah....uhhh...well, the fish are there but you may have to free dive to see them. They're pretty wary of bubbles. Right here in Belize. Very popular. The Elbow.

 

[mruseless]

Maldives

 

[diversteve]

Silversides count? Devils Grotto off Grand Cayman in June/July. There's also another location off the East End that's similar at the same time. This dive is in 85^o water at 40' in downtown Georgetown. Check his Turtle Reef video linked at the end - not as many but those Tarpon are there year round for at least the past decade.

[video=vimeo;69518760]http://vimeo.com/69518760[/video]

Jacks off Cabo Pulmo as mentioned above - Alert Diver | Cabo Pulmo



And the Trevally...

[video=youtube;-l1hFR5sCyg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l1hFR5sCyg[/video]

And thousands of Mobula Rays school in the winter...



World's Best Marine Reserve: Cabo Pulmo: Photos : Discovery News

Winter there's also a few Hammerheads off Gordo Banks nearby:

 

[oszillodrom]

Sipadan. Loads of fish everywhere you look, including schools of jacks, barracuda, and bumphead parrotfish. School of hammerheads if you're very very lucky. School of devil rays on nearby Siamil if you are kind of lucky. Also, the amount of turtles you see could almost count as a school ;-)

 

[robint]

This side of the planet = as the other guy said..... North Carolina! Huge schools of fish including sharks.

The other side of planet = PALAU. Huge schools of everything, including sharks. I have never seen so many fish as in German Channel! Millions schooling there, blocking out the light there were so many. One of my favorite dives EVERY.

I love swimming through a school of fish. My husband thinks I am nuts. I have done it quite a few times, getting right into a school of jacks. NOthing like that feeling!

I have videos, too.

 

[Hank49]

Sipadan is unreal. I was there in 98. I had to laugh because divers are encouraged not to touch....but no one told the turtles this in Sipadan. You'd see them everywhere, laying on top of and breaking soft corals or sponge, munching away. I think they, at least then, were TOO protected. The system was out of balance with so many turtles. I guess the only check on that would be a massive increase in tiger sharks?

 

[tomfcrist]

this side of the planet = as the other guy said..... North carolina! Huge schools of fish including sharks.

center of the universe!