Didn't make the top 32 because I have caught them in multiple places already. However, they are pretty cool fish so I replaced the taimen with it. This is a crevalle isn't it? The only one we caught in Baja with vertical bands this distinct.
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Bruce Baker
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That is a cool looking fish. I have never caught a Crevalle with vertical bands like the one you caught, I only have caught them in the Gulf of Mexico and in the Atlantic off of Florida. So I was not sure. However, I did some Googling and I found a photo of a guy holding a Crevalle caught in Baha and it had the bars, though not as distinct. I just suggested it because it's a species of fish I enjoy catching regardless of size.
Paige
Wishing I was fishing the Sauk
Geez, now I'm getting homework...
There are 18 species in the genus Caranx which includes jacks, trevallies, blue runners, false scad, and cocinero. The crevalle jack (Caranx hippos) is found in tropical and temperature waters on either side of the Atlantic Ocean; in 2007 a second species, the longfin crevalle jack (C. fischeri) was described as a separate species in the eastern Atlantic Ocean along the African coast from Angola to the Mediterranean. The fish that @CanoeGuy posted is a Pacific crevalle jack (C. caninus). The Pacific crevalle jack inhabits coastal waters and Pacific Islands in the Eastern Pacific from San Diego to Peru. Juvenile Pacific crevalle jacks do have five dark vertical bars along the side, consistent with @CanoeGuy's picture. All three species appear to be closely-related. While there have been some arguments that the crevalle jack and Pacific crevalle jack are the same species, there are differences in fin color and bone growth.The giant trevally (Caranx ignobilis) of the Indo-Pacific is high on my wanted list.
On a night dive on the Great Barrier Reef, one of those b@st@rds bit my left hand, leaving scratches on the back of my hand and on the base of my thumb.
So, I'm looking for revenge at some point...
Steve
Bruce Baker
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Thanks for chiming in. I had never heard of the Pacific Jack Crevalle and it never came up in my Google search. I was pretty sure it was not the Crevalle Jack, but I doubted myself since my Google search came up empty and the fish in the picture that I had looked at referred to it as a Jack Crevalle.Geez, now I'm getting homework...
The giant trevally (Caranx ignobilis) of the Indo-Pacific is high on my wanted list.
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On a night dive on the Great Barrier Reef, one of those b@st@rds bit my left hand, leaving scratches on the back of my hand and on the base of my thumb.
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So, I'm looking for revenge at some point...
Steve
You dropped Taimen off your list? Seems like Taimen has to make the top 32. I've never fished for them due to poor decision making but they are on something like the top 10 for me. Anyone who has fished for Taimen want to chime in on whether they should make the top 32?
So many Jacks...so little time.
They all pull harder than hell in my limited experience...and don't give up.
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I think we need to get Evan and some of the other techy folks here to develop an @Cabezon app.
I can picture it now....I find some unknown to me sea creature offshore. I look towards my phone and instead of saying "Hey Siri....." I just say "Hey Cabezon, what is this?". Game changer.
Paige
Wishing I was fishing the Sauk
The list a personal one to feed my travel plans. I just don't see myself traveling that far and spending about $12k to catch a taimen. Certainly a spectacular fish and if I lived in Asia I would be all over it.
There are existing apps. I have a friend that pays for one that is pretty good. We put random little reef fish I caught in Baja in it and it gave answers.
IDed this as a flag cabrilla. Nobody at the resort had any idea.
Didn't know this one tho
Oh, they are worth it. Why? Because it's sunny and 82* there when it's 40* and raining here. The bonefish are small, but fun, and after a half dozen you can cross them off your list. Snook and baby tarpon are lots of fun as a novelty. But permit, permit will haunt your soul. First you see the nervous water, then a tailing fin. You guide says your fly is perfect, and you make a perfect cast. Strip. Mr. Permit sees your orangish tan crab pattern and shows his interest by moving toward it. Strip again. Mr. Permit is definitely interested and moves ever closer. Then just as you're sure he's gonna' eat it, he turns away to rejoin his buddies and forget that your presentation ever existed.
I liken permit to steelheading. Just because you do everything right doesn't mean you'll hook up.
I don’t think that is actually a positive thing at all. Give me a 10 pound bonefish over a similar sized permit any day.
Agreed!
Uptonogood
PNW raised
An introduction to bonefish and permit is a hell of a lot of fun. I hit Belize some years back and what a blast! The fish are rockets, numbers unbelievable, and incidental catches of bigger ladyfish (poor man’s tarpon) and big jack Crevalles a good possi. There are also barracuda but these other fish had my interest! The big Jack went home with the guide for family get together. Can’t find my permit photo! Darn! Ha! Found it!
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