Out of Bogue Inlet 5/25- ID help

1647 Views 9 Replies 7 Participants Last post by NCStateFisher, May 27, 2014

ptrodock

Discussion Starter · May 25, 2014

We caught a couple Spanish and a couple blues to use for bait this morning, but the schools of pogies we found yesterday weren't around this morning so we headed out with what we had. Went out to the Hutton area, as everything else was being hit pretty hard on our way out. Ended up with a mess of porgies and ringtails. Threw back a bunch of those slightly undersized sea bass and tussled with some AJ's. Had a fun day and ended up catching a little fish that was a new one to me. Anyone seen one of these little fish before?

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catmaster

· #2 · May 26, 2014

Looks like a juvenile Triple Tail.
I think maybe Trigger is right...After looking again.

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19471

· #3 · May 26, 2014

what he said

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ptrodock

Discussion Starter · #4 · May 26, 2014

Thanks. I didn't think of that since I caught it on the bottom and thought of tripletails as normally suspended under floating material. I've never caught one though, so that is not experience talking, just something I either read somewhere or have been told.

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19471

· #5 · May 26, 2014

ptrodock said:
Thanks. I didn't think of that since I caught it on the bottom and thought of tripletails as normally suspended under floating material. I've never caught one though, so that is not experience talking, just something I either read somewhere or have been told.

Yeah I think your right. I've seen Blair wiggins fish under sargassum for them. People also fish channel markers and buoys for them.

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catmaster

· #6 · May 26, 2014

Triple Tails get big...they lay on their side like a flounder....sometimes....They love to hang out near crabpots.

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trigger22

· #7 · May 26, 2014

white spotted soapfish.... I can't take credit for it, I read it elsewhere but that is what it is

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dchfm123

· #8 · May 26, 2014

deffinetly looks like a small soap. Its a type of grouper. I have never caught one in nc but catch them in fl all the time. Mostly in the deep water in pensacola bay

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