[daShark]

Hey there,

I was fishing only for 1 year now and ofcuorse I do not know alot about fishing ;( , and today I was reading through people posts and I found out that I don't even know what kind of fish are there in a water.
EC NEWELL MAN was asking " MACKERAL? WHERE ARE THEY? " I was realy surpized by this post I never knew that there is that kind of fish around here.

Could you please list some of the fish you are fishing for ? I do alot of surf fishing and of course I know stripes, blues, fluke,flounder but what else ? What else from surf ?


thanks

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[Makoman16]

Wow...this is tough.....

Fluke, flounder, striped bass, bluefish, snappers, sea robins, boston mackeral, spanish mackeral, dogfish, sea bass, porgies, blackfish,ling, cod, monkfish, bergalls, stargazers, lafayettes, weakfish, yellowfin tuna, bluefin tuna, bigeye tuna, false albacore, skipjack tuna, bonito, longfin tuna, mahi-mahi, triggerfish, mako sharks, blue sharks, tiger sharks, thresher sharks, brown sharks, white sharks, black drum, swordish, blue marlin, white marlin, wahoo, cobia, tarpon.....and the list goes on and on and on!

We have great fishing in NY WATERS!

 

[Makoman16]

From the surf.....

Bluefish, striped bass, weakfish, fluke, sea robins, skates, dogfish....

And if you are REALLY LUCKY and have the ENTIRE UNIVERSE ALLIGNED for you on a SPECAL NIGHT....tuna or shark (very very rare but certainly a possibility!)

 

[addict]

shark - I've heard cathces of tuna and albies in SI also.

 

[614668]

There are a lot of great books out there. I would recommend going to a major bookstore and finding one you like. I have at home the encyclopedia of fishing and although most of what is in there is of no use to me after fishing my whole life I still managed to learn a lot. It has great fish identification guide. I recommend a book that has drawings of fish rather than pictures as artwork of any creature/plant/flowers etc are always more useful as a picture as artists can always highlight the characteristics and identification marks of certain fish that are similar to each other. As for Mackerel they are almost always caught offshore in our waters and the spring run is popular here. Since they speed through our waters most years you need to keep a close report to the captains etc.. as by the time you get the report they may already be in Boston.

 

[daShark]

it's a big list ......

ye, it's a big list, thanks Makoman16, but as I can see for surffishers not much to go for and as I'm not gonna buy boat, not yet, I'll stay with all of thise common surf species.

thanks for posts

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