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Mr. Sandman
06-28-2013, 09:59 AM
Caught in menemsha
http://i671.photobucket.com/albums/vv76/js_fraser/null_zpsa826afbc.jpg

N.ShoreFisher
06-28-2013, 10:21 AM
almost looks like a cunner. Did it have teeth, cause I've run into schools of those things in Gloucester around the rocks and they will strip bait off hooks in seconds!

JackK
06-28-2013, 10:22 AM
Tough to tell from the photo, but looks like a really red cunner

http://www.state.nj.us/dep/fgw/images/reccunner06.jpg

Rappin Mikey
06-28-2013, 02:00 PM
PortugeeZE Red Porch Pirch

Liv2Fish
06-28-2013, 02:18 PM
Choggie or bait thief

Clammer
06-28-2013, 02:35 PM
choggie or cunner /same thing

My uncle use to catch them in Maine they were so big at 1st you thought they were a light colored tautog ><><

johnny ducketts
06-28-2013, 06:30 PM
Sun burnt cunner
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Mr. Sandman
06-28-2013, 07:05 PM
I have seen a lot of cunners and I never saw one so red...they are normally brown. Also it looks too big for a cunner. Most of them are smaller, at least the ones I have seen.

ThrowingTimber
06-28-2013, 07:43 PM
maybe gorged on krill.

Flamingos are pale white. But their diet makes them that burnt orange/pink color.
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bloocrab
06-28-2013, 08:52 PM
We always called em' choggies, and if that is one...I've definitely seen them that big...not so red, but not far from it. Actually, the larger ones I've seen were actually lighter than normal...but every other attribute tells me choggie. Not for nothing but, they are truly a delicacy, gutted, scaled and pan fried? yum, yum, yum....undressing does suck though

Nebe
06-28-2013, 09:03 PM
It's an Irish choggie
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JohnR
06-28-2013, 09:14 PM
Sun burnt cunner
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Look at that quick and tell me it didn't look like it spelled something else :rotf2:

MakoMike
06-29-2013, 07:55 AM
Tough to tell from the photo, but looks like a really red cunner

http://www.state.nj.us/dep/fgw/images/reccunner06.jpg

I'll second that I.D. We've caught them close to three times that size on the west grounds, during the fall. And twice as big are common out on Cox's.

Mr. Sandman
06-29-2013, 02:57 PM
That sure looks like it....thanks. I have just not seen them that red before.

johnny ducketts
06-29-2013, 03:42 PM
Look at that quick and tell me it didn't look like it spelled something else :rotf2:

This is a family site right?
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Mr. Sandman
06-29-2013, 04:36 PM
actually now that I think about it those things can get that red in certain circumstances :devil2:

protty31
06-30-2013, 04:49 AM
Looks like a choggie

striprman
07-05-2013, 10:04 AM
:love::biglaugh:

piemma
07-05-2013, 03:41 PM
Look at that quick and tell me it didn't look like it spelled something else :rotf2:
Oh boy! You feelin' OK???

RickBomba
07-06-2013, 06:53 AM
I caught one off Thatcher's once that was an easy pound and a half. It wasn't that red, though.