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			08-17-2011, 04:30 PM
			
			
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				My buddy caught a tripletail!
			 
			 
			
		
		
		In Massachuetts!! 
  
I could not belive it but it is a tripletail! 
		
		
		
		
		
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			08-17-2011, 05:14 PM
			
			
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		 I fish for them on the Space Coast. 
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			08-17-2011, 05:15 PM
			
			
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		 I'll bite:  what's a tripletail? 
		
		
		
		
		
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			08-17-2011, 06:55 PM
			
			
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			08-17-2011, 08:09 PM
			
			
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		 Assuming off a high flyer? Way cool, need pics. I hear they're great eating! 
		
		
		
		
		
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			08-17-2011, 09:51 PM
			
			
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		 Cool I love seeing the different fish that come during the heat of summer. I saw triggerfish a week ago finning on the surface. 
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			08-18-2011, 08:10 AM
			
			
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		I have a cell phone pic I just need to find my cell phone  
 
The story was we were both offshore (maybe 10 mi south of MV)and he passed by a bucket floating in the ocean, he saw a fish underneath it. He got out the landing net and made another pass, picked up the bucket and the fish in the net.  He texted me a photo of it.  He said it did not put up much of a fight. (It was/is still alive...)  He kept it in the live well and later released it in the harbor after showing it to a few folks on the dock.
  
According to  Atlantic tripletail - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
they do range as far as MA but I have never seen nor ever heard of one this far north.  
		
		
		
			
		
		
		
		
		
		
			
				  
				
					
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			08-18-2011, 01:45 PM
			
			
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			08-18-2011, 04:25 PM
			
			
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		 That attached picture isn't a triple tail. Not sure exactly what. But it's not a triple tail 
		
		
		
		
		
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			08-18-2011, 07:00 PM
			
			
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		 "Juvenile Atlantic tripletails are colored a mottled yellow, brown, and black. Adults are jet black. When it lies on its side at the surface, the tripletail is sometimes confused for a floating mangrove leaf. The juveniles have white pectoral fins and a white margin on the caudal fin. Adult tripletails have varied mottled color patterns which range from dark brown to reddish brown, often with a tint of gray." 
		
		
		
		
		
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			08-18-2011, 07:52 PM
			
			
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		This is a juvy triple tail   
  
		
		
		
		
		
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			08-19-2011, 05:18 AM
			
			
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		 When I first looked at it I thought it was some kind of grouper but after staring at the tail fins and looking online I thought it looked more like a juvenile triple tail.   
I know the larger ones are more brown and less molted.  Few fish have a tail fin arrangement like that. 
I sent the photo off to a fisheries expert...I will let you know what he says. 
		
		
		
		
		
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			08-19-2011, 07:57 AM
			
			
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		 I'm going to go with juvenile wreckfish.   Polyprion americanus. 
 
range Newfoundland to FL, juveniles found pelagic and under flotsam. Sought commercially and for sport, so sounds like good eating. 
		
		
		
		
		
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			08-19-2011, 08:00 AM
			
			
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		 here is a pic 
		
		
		
			
		
		
		
		
		
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			08-19-2011, 08:21 AM
			
			
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		 That looks like it!  nice find. I stand corrected.  
still cool nonetheless. 
		
		
		
		
		
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			08-19-2011, 09:25 AM
			
			
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		 still very cool 
		
		
		
		
		
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			08-20-2011, 05:18 PM
			
			
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