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TheFishSlayer · #1 07-11-2016, 11:51 PM

Ok so this might just be losing my mind, but I swear I'm seeing some weird shit in the bay lately. So the two past times I've been out in raritan I have been seeing some huge fish breaching and getting fully air-born. I've saw them in the lower Bay Area off Staten. So on Sunday we saw ages jump not so far from the boat, it wasn't a dolphin, to big to be a bluefish, definitely not the body of a striper, so wtf am I seeing. I got a decent look at one that jumped about 75ft from the boat and I saw its belly side and to me it looked like a sturgeon. Seriously WTF am I seeing???? Spinner shark, sturgeon, Nessie?

Help I feel crazy

SaltLife1980 · #2 07-12-2016, 12:13 AM

Might be a sturgeon. I got one out there last year

aruvio · #3 07-12-2016, 01:14 AM

Definitely sturgeon. Many of them in there every year this time.

Gerry Zagorski · #4 07-12-2016, 05:16 AM

I'd say sturgeon too. We see them pretty regularly just outside Chapple Hill Channel south of the West Bank light house.

Hunter 2 · #5 07-12-2016, 05:29 AM

Sturgeon, I've seen them many times by West Bank throughout the years. I hooked one on a light Bucktail rig accidentally and was spooled very quick.

Skolmann · #6 07-12-2016, 05:54 AM

Sturgeon. Had one breech right next (I mean within a foot or two) to our boat the other day. Scared the crap out of my son.

Was told years ago that the females do this to loosen their eggs prior to their spawning run up the Hudson. Not sure if that is accurate though.

Capt. Debbie · #7 07-12-2016, 10:18 AM

Saw one there two years ago. Huge scales on it and jumped completely out of the water.

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Originally Posted by Gerry Zagorski

I'd say sturgeon too. We see them pretty regularly just outside Chapple Hill Channel south of the West Bank light house.

Billfish715 · #8 07-12-2016, 11:20 AM

They might be a mutation of the Asian Carp that are infesting the rivers and lakes of the Midwest. Or, they can be a variety of radioactively infected flying fish from the Oyster Creek nuclear plant. Because there are so many pollutants in the NY Bight, the aquatic creatures are being severely affected. We came across a school of Magnum-sized, Mutant, Hudson River Whitefish the other day in Ambrose Channel. They are becoming more prolific in the Harbor because of excessive ejaculation of Viagra by-products into the river system which has increased the urge by these creatures to spawn. Everything flows downstream so be careful to dispose of your trash responsibly.