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The one strange fish that I remember catching was about 30 miles off bermuda. We anchored up in about 180 ft over a bank called argus banks. After a long day of catching blue marlin , wahoo and yellow fin tuna and organizing our catch for that day, we ate dinner and then got the baits ready to do the same thing for the next morning. I decided to start bottom fishing for grouper and snappers and things like that, after about an hour or so I felt pull on my line nothing like the bottom fish I was catching. The fish didn't really put up a great fight but never the less I knew it was a fairly heavy fish. I brought the thing aboard and I was unable to identify the fish. I ended up waking up my friend who has been fishing those waters his entire life and he was also unable to identify it. The fish was about 70 lbs with a deep maroon color. It had no scales on it and it was kind of fatty not solid like a tuna. It turned out to be a fish called an escolar. I haven't caught or seen another since and haven't heard of one being caught there either. to tell you the truth I really don't know to much about that type of fish at all. I did hear that they are usually found in much deeper water like 600 ft .
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