Fish ID Question

[OCcaptain]

We were catching these while bailing dolphun yesterday. Any idea what it is?

[tunatamer4]

Looks like a young Almaco jack

[Sea Draggin]

Yep, baby Jack. We caught some babies on Saturday as well there 60 miles south of you guys.

[OCcaptain]

We were bailing dolphin on a weed line that had a 55 gallon drum in it. There were at least a hundred of them under the drum mixed in with Mahi and Triggers.

[Captain Michael Buffington]

bar jacks

Mike

[Wild John]

The diagonal dark stripe through the eye is an Almaco jack. (True) Bar Jacks have a blue "bar" (more like a stripe) horizontally above the lateral line.
Almaco jacks (also known as Bonita in Bermuda) are great eating. More info here: http://marinebio.org/species.asp?id=442
Cool pic! Never seen a baby like that.
-WJ

[OCcaptain]

The diagonal dark stripe through the eye is an Almaco jack. (True) Bar Jacks have a blue "bar" (more like a stripe) horizontally above the lateral line.
Almaco jacks (also known as Bonita in Bermuda) are great eating. More info here: http://marinebio.org/species.asp?id=442
Cool pic! Never seen a baby like that.
-WJ

Thanks! First time I have ever caught one. Must have been in the nursery because there were lots of them.

[brad regan 01]

cool looking jacks....never caught any of those

[Stick'em]

Yea almost every dolphin we caught this weekend had those jacks in their stomachs.

[capt. jakeg]

Catch them on the sabikis. you will catch 5 at a time. If they are big chop them up. Take the little ones and throw them on the hook as a live bait. dolphin tear them up.