Fluke and a Spanish Mac: Fishing with gulp today for fluke and got two shorts to 17". Also caught my first Spanish Mackerel 20". He bit the gulp when I reeling in fast for the next...

greenfrog Loc: Central NJ

Fishing with gulp today for fluke and got two shorts to 17".
Also caught my first Spanish Mackerel 20". He bit the gulp when I reeling in fast for the next cast. Warm summer.
Next time I will bring another pole with metal to see if I can get anymore.

troyfrd1 Loc: Hampstead,NC

Nice catch thanks for the pics

Cubsfan Loc: Destin Florida

Spanish in Jersey? Wow global warming is working.

Able Man Loc: North Coast (Cleveland, Ohio)

¡Both, very good eating fish! Glad for your meal(sl) in the making!

Cubsfan Loc: Destin Florida

Spanish didn’t exist in jersey when I was there . 24 years. A guy caught a red drum . He was the talk of the marina . That was the oddest fish ever caught in great bay at the time. Salt water fishing is exciting because you just never know what s coming out of the water.

Cubsfan Loc: Destin Florida

Now I hear they catch sheepshead and trigger fish too.

Fredfish Loc: Prospect CT.

greenfrog wrote:

Fishing with gulp today for fluke and got two shorts to 17".
Also caught my first Spanish Mackerel 20". He bit the gulp when I reeling in fast for the next cast. Warm summer.
Next time I will bring another pole with metal to see if I can get anymore.

Nice catch greenfrog, keep at it,there are keepers out there!

kandydisbar Loc: West Orange, NJ

Were you off the shore, rocks, pier, boat?

Flytier Loc: Wilmington Delaware

Cubsfan wrote:

Now I hear they catch sheepshead and trigger fish too.

Yes to all of the above. Lots of triggers along the jetty in Barnegat inlet. My brother got a spsnish a couple years ago. He also pulled a cobia from the surf in Jersey. My favorite was when I caught yellow banded rudderfish there. Took me three days to find out what it was. It was right in with the snapper blues.

Big TC Loc: Raytown, MO.

greenfrog wrote:

Fishing with gulp today for fluke and got two shorts to 17".
Also caught my first Spanish Mackerel 20". He bit the gulp when I reeling in fast for the next cast. Warm summer.
Next time I will bring another pole with metal to see if I can get anymore.

The top fish, whatever it is, doesn't look real.

Flytier Loc: Wilmington Delaware

T Croft wrote:

The top fish, whatever it is, doesn't look real.

It is.

Able Man Loc: North Coast (Cleveland, Ohio)

T Croft wrote:

The top fish, whatever it is, doesn't look real.

¡It's "Downside UP"!

bric Loc: Helena, MT

Nice catch thanks for the pics. The fluke looks like a flounder to me, or baby halibut. They must be related?

Chas304 Loc: New Jersey

Redfish used to be common in nj. There’s old pictures of guys with large surf caught fish. They called them channel bass. Like turn of the century old. Bass river is named for them. Also sheepshead bay N. Y. , of course for sheepshead. Spanish have been showing the past few years on the beach, but historically not uncommon at all.