07-07-2025, 01:53 PM
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NJFishing.com Old Salt
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: Spotswood
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Re: Fish ID thoughts (no Photos)
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Originally Posted by bulletbob
Tan top, white underbelly, does sound like the colors we might see with a jumping sturgeon, and we have all seen them... They are endangered/threatened in the NY Bight according to the ""experts"", but you'd never know it, especially when 4 or 7 of them almost decapitated you on any given day fluking in the bay.. However, they vacuum worms, clam spat, and fish eggs off the substrate, and do NOT slam into bunker schools.. It is possible a jumping sturgeon just happened to jump near a school of bunker.. I am far from an expert, but I always thought most of the few Cobia caught this far north were fairly well offshore, not really in bays or inshore .... bob
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The cobia follow the bunker schools. And schools of squid. They also feed heavily on sea robins.
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