Surrounded by barracudas – it was like being in the Habs factory

[leptar]

The Atlantic horse mackerel.... very bony... don't make good bait.. caught while jigging for tinkers...

[Fish_Eye]

No to all so far.

However, the jig is up.

The answer is dealt with in an article on the front page of today's Providence Journal.

Out of sheer coincidence I had just finished sending off the pictures I've posted here to a state biologist when I got a call from the reporter who had been given my contact info from Tom Meade. We talked for a bit and as soon as I got my answer back from DEM, I shared it with the writer...only they put the wrong answer in the paper. They are Mackerel scad not Mackerel scud!

Poor little Decapterus macarellus don't even get the proper recognition they deserve. I had sent this fish base info over to the ProJo writer. For more info on these sub tropical visitors check out the fishbase site at http://www.fishbase.com/Summary/Spec...ary.php?id=993

They sometimes carry ciguatera poisoning so don't eat them if you catch them and let's hope the stripers don't eat too many of them either.

I'm off with the camera again, gotta find those tarpon.

[NIB]

They look like a Yo-Zuri Mag Minnow.

[wetsuit'nmtk]

if fluke are evidence of desirability northern senate then to hell with them. in all seriousness i remember the first time i saw senate as a kid at the coast guard dock, threw one right on a hook and since that day i have yet to get ONE BITE on the things. they are like fluke repellent. and its not cause there were no fish, other baits allways yield but not the mini barracudas. further, i have run into numerous pods of them right in the shallows with activly feeding stripers in the vacinity and yet they remain unherrased

[RoyL]

Great pics as always, I love to see all the wierd stuff that show up in our waters sometimes

[Edge Sportfish]

Mike-

Cigar Minnows are Scad-

G.L.

[Fish_Eye]

Edge Sportfish,

George, I knew I should have just called you first; no doubt you have a live well filled with these at the start of each day. However, there is no reference to cigar minnows as being scad at fishbase and that's a pretty complete reference data base.

What do you guys in Florida know anyway, you call False Albacore bonita. Bonita, bonito, false albacore…as you know…are simply little tunny or Euthynnus alletteratus. But with the size you catch them they should be called Monster Fat Alberts.

Here's an example of the size of the false albacore that George can bring to boat -- all day long -- or at least until your arms fall off...ask Crazy Alberto.