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]

[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


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?

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:

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