OK, what kind of fish is this?

[Road King Cole]

Are they good eaten?

[willy]

That my friend is one of my favorite quarries, Black Sea Bass.
It is also one of the best table fare fish you can eat.
Looks to be just about keeper size.

[Road King Cole]

Thanks Willy,

I just looked it up. 12.5 inches. It was definitely bigger than that as I was thinking 16 (but that was head to tippy tail). I should have kept more...

I wonder than what those other black fish I was catching last year were.

Ok, so I went fishing today. Landed a handfull of non keeper stripers, a bunch of small tautogs (no keepers)...otherwise it was a "nice", windy, choppy, misty, cloudy cool day out there...stills tons of other boats out there too.

rkc

[Genie Aye]

Wow---here is what our Black sea bass look like on the west coast.

[fishnfetch]

Hey RKC. it was me that chatted with you at the ramp this morning. nice looking v you have there today was opening day for sea bass, 14in minimum size and 10 fish a day. I cant believe you only got short stripers over on the side you were on. I fished across the canal and there were some real hogs over there. where did you end up going for the tautog and sea bass? if i had known it was you i would have been a little more helpful, sorry. im usually pretty tight lipped on the water about what im doing and where im doing it.

[Road King Cole]

Just went to Cleveland ledge. There was probably 2dozen boats there. I guesss I need to look at this years regulations. Not sure when I will get to go out again.