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11-14-2002, 12:26 PM
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Ifish Nate
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Lake Oswego OR USA
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Re: Nice Fish Pic from the Zipperlip
Grouper?
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11-14-2002, 01:12 PM
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King Salmon
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Portland, OR
Posts: 5,275
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Re: Nice Fish Pic from the Zipperlip
Louisianna Wrecks, and that would be a gag grouper. I fished that spot plenty o' times.
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11-14-2002, 11:33 PM
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King Salmon
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Mountaindale- between the Girl Scout Camp and the Nudist Camp :)
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Nice Fish Pic from the Zipperlip
Had a great trip, water was OK for this time of year.  Only one fish, but it was a bute! Can't tell where- top secret zipperlip.  Of course if you guys guess the spot and the species, I guess I can't stop ya! :grin: I'll be dang disappointed in a couple of ya if ya don't! [img]graemlins/stupid.gif[/img]
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Mel
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11-15-2002, 08:59 AM
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King Salmon
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Mountaindale- between the Girl Scout Camp and the Nudist Camp :)
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Re: Nice Fish Pic from the Zipperlip
Gee this boards dead. :depressed: Ok - so this is actually from a fish buddy who got it from his brother in Florida. The email was titled "I HATE MY BROTHER! Ha - I thought that was pretty funny till I saw the pic. Now I hate his brother too! It's off the Atlantic side, that's all he knew about the spot. I thought it was a Gulf Grouper, I was hoping for some expert opinions (Pilar?). 
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Mel
I only WORK (used to be fish)on days that end in y
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
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11-15-2002, 09:16 AM
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Join Date: May 2000
Location: Beaverton, OR, USA
Posts: 6,152
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Re: Nice Fish Pic from the Zipperlip
Texas bluegill? 
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11-15-2002, 09:16 AM
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King Salmon
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Portland, OR
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Re: Nice Fish Pic from the Zipperlip
That's definitely a gag or a leopard grouper. Most likely gag. And it could be gulf or atlantic.
KB
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11-15-2002, 03:07 PM
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King Salmon
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Mountaindale- between the Girl Scout Camp and the Nudist Camp :)
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Re: Nice Fish Pic from the Zipperlip
John - Can't tell ya any more about it. Check the post above, just got the pic sent to me. I liked it, pretty fish and water. Made me hunger for the little numbers. You know about the little numbers don't ya? :grin:
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I only WORK (used to be fish)on days that end in y
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
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11-15-2002, 11:37 PM
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Mr. Carkington
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Not all that wander are lost.
Posts: 10,882
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Re: Nice Fish Pic from the Zipperlip
Miss B, Yep definitely not a member of the snapper family. If I can find my Florida fish card, I'll second Kurt's opinion. It seems bottom fish everywhere are varied and its hard to know what you are looking at if you do not see a lot of them.
There are at least 80 or 90 types of rockfish. I suspect that snapper and grouper have at least that many.
Because of the pressure nearshore and lack of decent habitat in Florida you will not find many large groupers in shallow water. They tend towards the 3rd reef (100+ ft.) and deeper. Wrecks are good too in deeper water, producing grouper in the 50# and better class.
Snappers are found everywhere on any structure. The Gulf side tends to be quite shallow (6 to 15 ft) for miles from the beach, especially in Florida Bay, above the Keys. Deep water may be readily found 6 miles off the Atlantic side (South and East) of the Keys. So I'm guessing that is an Atlantic fish.
What are the colors on the back?
[ 11-15-2002, 12:44 PM: Message edited by: Pilar ]
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11-18-2002, 01:56 PM
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Mr. Carkington
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Not all that wander are lost.
Posts: 10,882
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Re: Nice Fish Pic from the Zipperlip
The fish ID card says 'Tiger Grouper'. I've never seen one and can't tell you any more than that. The one to shoot when you dive is the Yellowtail snapper if you can find one big enough. Fine eating.
Stay away from the dark brown with python pattern lighter tan. That's a Nassau grouper and is protected.
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