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#1 zooxanthellae

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Posted 20 May 2015 - 01:05 AM

I've caught these guys fishing offshore, but from a floating dock with a dipnet is definitely a first for me.  You gotta love hard and persistent onshore winds!

 

Common Dolphin - Coryphaena hippurus

 

 

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#2 Betta132

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Posted 20 May 2015 - 02:00 AM

It looks pretty small. Little baby? 

Nice catch! 



#3 mattknepley

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Posted 20 May 2015 - 05:14 AM

Very cool.
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#4 don212

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Posted 20 May 2015 - 07:25 AM

juvenile mahi under an offshore dock, wow. 



#5 zooxanthellae

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Posted 20 May 2015 - 09:26 PM

It looks pretty small. Little baby? 

Nice catch! 

 

Yes, sorry for the lack of details, I wrote that post deliriously tired at one in the morning. It is about 3 Inches in length, and given their incredible growth rate, must be very young. I caught a number of other fishes on that dock that I have yet to identify, mainly due to them all being juveniles blown in from offshore. A few jacks, and a serranid of some sort were in the mix as well. It was a surprising trip for sure! 



#6 Isaac Szabo

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Posted 21 May 2015 - 12:54 AM

That's really cool!



#7 gerald

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Posted 21 May 2015 - 09:32 AM

Do you have access to W.J.Richards' Early Stages of Atlantic Fishes?

 

 

 I caught a number of other fishes on that dock that I have yet to identify, mainly due to them all being juveniles blown in from offshore. A few jacks, and a serranid of some sort were in the mix as well. It was a surprising trip for sure! 


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#8 Chasmodes

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Posted 21 May 2015 - 12:11 PM

Wow, that is awesome!


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#9 zooxanthellae

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Posted 21 May 2015 - 01:50 PM

Do you have access to W.J.Richards' Early Stages of Atlantic Fishes?

 

 

Gerald, 

I was wondering why you said "access", seemed like an odd word for owning a book. But then a quick google search showed a $400-$632 price tag, and all of the sudden "access" made perfect sense! 

Thanks for the lead, I'm going to check our library in the morning. 

 

Here is a quick and mostly unedited shot of one of the possible serranids (Keep in mind I used a macro lens, this is a really small fish): 

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#10 Betta132

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Posted 21 May 2015 - 02:16 PM

Big mouth on that little thing. And he already has teeth! Must be a teeny terror.

Was it skulking around cover like adult groupers? Doesn't really have the body type for open-water hunting.





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