NEW FISH TO ME

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WENT OUT FISHING IN THE RAIN TODAY GOT SOME SEA BASS AND A FLUKE BUT ALLSO I GOT 2 FISH I HAVE NEVER COUGHT BEFORE THEY ARE LIGHT BLUE BLACK STRIP OVER THER HEAD THEY HAVE YELLOW LINES AND A TAIL LIKE A TUNA ABOUT A 1 AND A HALF POUNDS THEY HIT MY LIVE BAIT LIKE A BLUE FISH I POST A PIC TOMARROW WHEN I GET BACK TO JERSEY HOPE SOME ONE KNOWS WHAT THEY ARE , THERE NOT ON MY NORTHEAST FISH ID CARDS

[chumbucket]

Maybe a Spanish Mackeral ???

[macojoe]

http://syncboard.com/albums/Fishing/Spanish_Mack.sized.jpg

[charlie_the_tuna]

doubt he caught a spanish in RI.

[chumbucket]

Well, doubt all you want, but they've been around up here. A guy on a fishing board MJ and I are on gets them in Martha's Vineyard here in MA.

[macojoe]

Yep they do get them!!

[TMcGovern]

;DThat's most def a spanish...caught many in my day

[ebol5]

Looks like one to me too!

[Blue_Runner]

Sounds like it might have been a Blue Runner to me *:D
http://myfwc.com/marine/FishID/images/jackblue.jpg

Also could be a bar jack - heck blue runner and bar jack may be the same - who knows?! *See the stripe at the top of this one?
http://www.thejump.net/id/more-fish/Caranx-ruber.jpg
Bar Jack Description: A mediup sized jack with a smaller mouth than other jacks. They are readily identified by this feature and the pretty stripe that runs along the top of the fish and switches to the bottom while on the tail or Caudal fin. Bar Jacks feed on smaller fish, shrimp. Bar Jacks are a sportfish and are good to eat.

Bar Jack Range: The bar jack is found from New Jersey through Bermuda, in most of the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean, and the West Indies. It is the most common Caranx in the West Indies and Bahamas but fairly uncommon throughout most of the Northern Gulf of Mexico. The Bar Jack prefers coral reef type structures more than other jacks.

Bar Jack Size: The Bar Jack pictured is a normal size specimen but they don't get much larger, occasionally reaching 15 pounds or so.

Bar Jack Dangers: Bar Jack in the Carribean have been know to cause ciguatera poisoning.

Another pic of a bar jack:
http://www.thejump.net/id/more-fish/bar-jack.jpg

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http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d57/captbent/91.jpg

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http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d57/captbent/92.jpg

[captbent]

when they where alive they where a sky blue and deep yellow

[captbent]

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d57/captbent/P1010014.jpg in the belly of the bigger fluke

[captbent]

remember this is in RI at the mouth of the bay

[TheTinMan]

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d57/captbent/91.jpg

Banded Rudderfish. ;)

http://www.usm.maine.edu/gulfofmaine-census/Docs/Reference/fishes09_27.htm

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THE TOP FIN LOOKS WORNG AND THE BLACK V OVER THERE HEADhttp://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d57/captbent/P1010018-1.jpg

[TheTinMan]

Here's a better pic.


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v206/Mnutz/banded_rudderfish.jpg

[captbent]

you are right thanks

BANDED RUDDERFISH
(Seriola zonata)
OTHER NAMES: Slender Amberjack
RANGE: All Florida, the Bahamas and Caribbean.
HABITAT: Unlike the pelogic Pilotfish, the Banded Rudderfish is more coastal and prefers reef habitat. May also be found around navigation aids and in deep
channels.
DESCRIPTION: Easily confused with the Pilotfish because both have dark vertical bands, but the Banded Rudderfish is a small type of Amberjack as evidenced by the dark line through the eye, which the Pilotfish does not have.
SIZE: Usually a foot or less; grows to perhaps 2 feet.
FOOD VALUE: Excellent, particularly if large enough to render small fillets.
GAME QUALITIES: Typical of its family, the Banded Rudderfish is aggressive and will strike with abandon. Its battle is much like that of a Blue Runner tough for its size.
TACKLE AND BAITS: Seldom targeted, but if action is slow and a school presents itself, the angler can try very light spinning, baitcasting or fly outfits, with small jigs, spoons or streamer flies. Rudderfish will also take any live baitfish of suitable size, as well as live shrimp and small strips of squid or cut fish.
FISHING SYSTEMS: Drifting; Still Fishing.

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[captbent]

and i got them in RI under a nav aid at 70 feet with live bait on the up reel at about 10-15 feet

[captbent]

ok and now what about the fish that was in the belly of the fluke

[TheTinMan]

ok and now what about the fish that was in the belly of the fluke

Snipefish. :)

http://www.amonline.net.au/fishes/fishfacts/fish/mscolopax.htm

[Blue_Runner]

Good detective work fellas ;)

[Stinky_Hooker]

I wish we had them round here. I love eating Amberjacks. Same family and all...bet they eat well.

Fun fight on light tackle too they would be. ;D

[captbent]

THANKS EVERYONE ;DOrder: Syngnathiformes
Family: Centriscidae
Species: Macrorhamphosus scolopax (Lin,1758)
Common Name: Longspine snipefish, Snipe fish

Size: to 20 cm TL (male/unsexed).

Habitat Type: Demersal; marine; depth range 25 - 600 m. Adults found near the bottom (normally at 50-150 m depth) over sand habitats on the lower continental shelf. Juveniles found in oceanic surface waters.

Diet: Juveniles feed mainly on pelagic invertebrates, mainly copepods; adults feed on bottom invertebrates.

Range: Widespread in warm seas. Western Atlantic: the offing of Nantucket Massachusetts Bay. Eastern Atlantic: southern England to the coast and banks of Morocco and in the Mediterranean.

Reproductive Strategy: Spawns commonly from October-March.

Comments: Commercial and aquarium species

[LESTERUS]

YEAP!!! SMALL AMBERJACK, BACK BREAKER WHEN YOU
CATCH THEM IN A REEF OVER 200 FT OF WATER, THEY'RE BIG!!!! WHEN THEY ARE BIG OFTEN HAVE WORMS.

LESTERUS

[Stinky_Hooker]

You bean those get that big?

Cool

AJs here usually have to be 45-50+ before they have worms.

A buddy of mine got a 99#er a couple months back.

I look for a pic...

[LESTERUS]

STINKY: DONT BE FUNNY!!! I MEANT OVER 200FT DEPTH
OF WATER, THE ONLY THING IN MIAMI OVER 200FT IS THE CIGARET BOATS OF DRUG DEALERS!!!!!

LESTERUS