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07-04-2025, 10:16 AM
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Fish ID thoughts (no Photos)
Neighbor was out by the bug light yesterday and saw 3 to 4 foot long fish coming clear out of the water and into a bunker school. Tan top, white bottom was his description which if he was in southern waters would make me think cobia.
Would appreciate any thoughts as I'm unfamiliar with cobia in Sandy Hook Bay. 
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07-06-2025, 02:52 PM
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Re: Fish ID thoughts (no Photos)
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
Last edited by bulletbob; 07-07-2025 at 08:23 AM..
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Re: Fish ID thoughts (no Photos)
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