mystery fish

[blue oyster]

i need help on a fish i caught i.d. thanks

[blue oyster]

finally got it , not quite sure how

[johnny ducketts]

Bonito... Yum yum!
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[PRBuzz]

Attached are pictures of juvenile: blue fin (left), bonito (top right, white bkgd) and false albies (bottom right, blue bkgd). BTW the right image is of Mediterranean variety.

Looks like juv bonito! Congrats, on posting the picture and the catch.

[Raven]

Originally Posted by blue oyster

finally got it , not quite sure how

SEE----- you can do it !

although first time is sometimes a Beotch

[flyvice11787]

Originally Posted by PRBuzz

Attached are pictures of juvenile: blue fin (left), bonito (top right, white bkgd) and false albies (bottom right, blue bkgd). BTW the right image is of Mediterranean variety.

Looks like juv bonito! Congrats, on posting the picture and the catch.

Although I've never seen a juvi bluefin, I'm pretty sure the bonito has bigger teeth.
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[zacs]

there is no doubt that it is a bonito.

[blue oyster]

thanks prbuzz and raven for the help , it was driving me crazy not knowing what the fish was and not being able to post a picture . i can only hope it's big brothers and sisters show up some day ,for a small fish it had game , i can only imagine what the fight woud be on a bigger fish . i could see the maddness now in the habah everyone running and gunning for bones and albies along with the usual insanity that goes on

[MakoMike]

Bonito, like I said yesterday!

[Swimmer]

Where didi you catch it? Shore or boat?

[blue oyster]

Originally Posted by Swimmer

Where didi you catch it? Shore or boat?

boat they were mixed in with macks on a local ledge

[Saltheart]

That juvi blue fin is a beautiful looking fish!

[johnny ducketts]

I think it's a bonito.
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[bucko]

If the fish was caught in the Boston Harbor area that's quite a catch. I don't think I've heard of Bonito that far North.

[johnny ducketts]

it's been a very weird year.

48 lb red drum in rhode island, other weird stuff, any thing is possible

[rayndogg]

its a mackeral maybe spanish.

[WoodyCT]

Sarda sarda

No doubt about it.
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[Fisherwoman]

Actually it is a what they call a frigate mackerel, known in the NE. I caught one a few years back and thought it was a baby bonita as well and got one the other day outside the harbor. I took a picture of one a few years back talked to the marine fisheries as I thought just like everybody else it was a bonita and he said even though they look very similar it is a frigate mackerel!!!

[leptar]

It's an Atlantic Bonito, Northern Bonito, Katonotel, Boston Mackerel... the Dorsal fin is the give away between the 2...


The dorsal on the frigate mackerel is not as long but taller.


They usually show up (Frigates) about this time of year along with the skip jacks(not snappers).....

[blue oyster]

Originally Posted by Fisherwoman

Actually it is a what they call a frigate mackerel, known in the NE. I caught one a few years back and thought it was a baby bonita as well and got one the other day outside the harbor. I took a picture of one a few years back talked to the marine fisheries as I thought just like everybody else it was a bonita and he said even though they look very similar it is a frigate mackerel!!!

hi jules i hope bill is doing well and you also , prbuzz posted a photo that was dead on for what i caught , a juvenile bonito and all the web searching i did none of the frigate mackerel looked anything like what i caught ? sub spicies ? one of the great mysterys , no matter what it is it's not something you catch every day

[WoodyCT]

I've seen mackerel,

And that's no Friggen Mackerel.

;-))
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