Tropical Fish - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

ProfessorM · 08-01-2006, 01:24 PM

I was fluke fishing in Westport Harbor yesterday morning and noticed what look like tropical fish swimming around close to the surface. Kind of yellow with vertical black stripes. They weren't very large and kind of looked like an angel fishes color scheme. Any idea what they were. Just curious. Thanks . P.

zacs · 08-01-2006, 01:31 PM

we get tropicals in RI every fall.

Edge Sportfish · 08-01-2006, 02:15 PM

Seargent Majors?

RIROCKHOUND · 08-01-2006, 02:17 PM

Yeah Sgt Majors... we see em in Newport this time of year hanging around the docks..
Live-line em.. good fluke size...
nah too cool to look at, even I'm not that evil

piemma · 08-01-2006, 02:45 PM

Do you have any idea what Clammer would do to them......

RIROCKHOUND · 08-01-2006, 03:07 PM

JoeP · 08-01-2006, 03:13 PM

Sergeant Majors and other tropical damsel fish are nasty and aggressive for small fish. I've been diving & snorkeling in the tropics before and when you go near them down in the coral reef the little buggers attack. I've also had a few species in my fish tank and been bitten by them when reaching into the tank.

Tell Clammer that & see what he does to them.

Clammer · 08-01-2006, 04:21 PM

they are tooooooooooooooooo f #$%^&*( [pretty] ==leave them be ;;

I,m gonna start a Kill the F #$%^&* BlOOOOOOOOOofish club / w/ a cash reward at the end of the season ::::

You,ll will have to bring in the heads /as proof of the kill >><><

I,m really diappointed in some on you =I have received thru the grape vine that you are actually releasing the F @#$%^&* BLOooofish unharmed &&&&&&&&&&& TOO make matters worse -------------------- some members here are actually tarketing them

baldwin · 08-01-2006, 04:42 PM

Yeah, sounds like sergeant majors. The Gulf Stream swings closer to the coast in September, warm water pockets break off, and bring tropicals in, usually juveniles. Storms blew some of the warmer water in earlier this summer, brought those man-0-war. Those tropicals either find a power plant outflow or die later in fall. We've found butterfly fish in fish traps in Long Island Sound, baby barracuda in the Vineyard.

macojoe · 08-01-2006, 05:52 PM

slapshot · 08-02-2006, 06:47 AM

After beheading the infidel bluefish I add the head to my dead bluefish head neclkace.

GBOUTDOORS · 08-02-2006, 06:52 AM

40# Cobia caught in Vineyard Sound this past week!! Also small Mahi Mahi just south of Nomans.

baldwin · 08-02-2006, 07:05 AM

Yes, the fish in the pics are definitely sergeant majors. You see huge schools of them in the Caribbean around areas that have lots of tourists. Non-touristy areas have greater diversity of species with fewer individuals of any one species.
Where tourists feed fish (sometimes cans of cheese wiz), the more aggressive fish that will eat that crap flock in and displace those that won't.

ProfessorM · 08-02-2006, 09:05 AM

Yup those are them.

Clammer · 08-02-2006, 09:23 AM

Slapshot your my F#$%^&*( idol

I only wear my FBF necklace at tribul consul><><

Now on my tampon necklaces / I have a much larger selection::::: small,medium , Large , & f #$%^&* huge & then you go into scented & unscented & finally before choosing the right one ..
you have new , used , & reused ><><><><

tynan19 · 08-02-2006, 11:21 AM

I saw one of those or something very similar in Wareham under a mooring ball a few weeks ago. I thought I was seeing things but it looked just like the ones in the picture. It actually looked like it wanted to attack me. Water was around 78 degrees.

Bonefish · 08-23-2006, 06:43 AM

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Originally Posted by tynan19

I saw one of those or something very similar in Wareham under a mooring ball a few weeks ago. I thought I was seeing things but it looked just like the ones in the picture. It actually looked like it wanted to attack me. Water was around 78 degrees.

I saw one of these under my mooring ball as well yesterday. I have a mooring in Revere and this fish was swiimming under the ball in about 3ft of water. I never realized Revere was so tropical. Very cool to see. I was thinking of scooping it up and live lining it.

NIB · 08-23-2006, 07:48 AM

We get a run of pilot fish this time of yr.Kinda the same they are more slender in profile.

Bonefish · 08-23-2006, 08:22 AM

I just checked out what pilot fish look like and that was definetly it. Although it was not schooled with any other fish. Either way still pretty cool.

slapshot · 08-02-2006, 01:04 PM

I'm not even allowed at tribal consul, got voted off the island by the third episode.

Clammer · 08-02-2006, 03:11 PM

ya can get back in when they realize your have a BLLLLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOfish necklace

Island Girl · 08-02-2006, 11:49 PM

I hate blooooos..... Last year I was fishing w/ MotoX and my FMS shoes well a big snaggled tooth blue took me for a swim

Luckily it was shallow and I was able to get up and finish the battle. I gave em hell and he ended up dinner for the parents along with his other buddies that fell victims to the this cut throat sport hehehe

all bloooos...mmmmm tasty