NEW FISH TO ME

captbent

captbent

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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
 
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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.
 
Sounds like it might have been a Blue Runner to me  :D
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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?
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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.
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Another pic of a bar jack:
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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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