Bonefish
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Albula Vulpes
"The Gray Ghost"
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Description: Silver in color with blue or greenish back. Slender, round body, long drawn snout, overhanging and downward pointing mouth. Darker streak running down the body with faint cross bands following the lateral line and shades of black outlining the fins.
Location: Inshore water of the Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, and Pacific Oceans. Grass flats or white sand flat, usually in shallow water less than three feet in depth. Common in the Florida Keys.
Observation: Seen most common in multiple numbers scavenging the shallow flats in search of a food source.
Size: 2 to 5 lbs. (6 to 12lbs in the Florida Keys)
Food source: Shrimp and small crabs
Tarpon Fishing
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Megalops Atlanticus
"The Silver King"
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Description: Bright silver sides most common, or brownish in tint when in grassy estuaries. These prehistoric fish have large bodies covered with huge scales and large mouths with a heavy bone structure that point upward.
Location: The opportunity to go Tarpon Fishing is in the Atlantic Ocean or Gulf of Mexico, shallow water, generally above 70 degrees. Common in the Florida Keys.
Observation: Often seen broaching above the surface of the water. When Tarpon Fishing, you can realize that Tarpon have a lung, and can breathe oxygen from above the surface of the water. Subsequently, they can be found in brackish waters. Commonly found in schools or daisy chains, particularly when spawning, during the summer months.
Size: 40 to 100 lbs (100+ not uncommon in the Keys)
Food Source: primarily smaller baitfish, shrimp and crabs
Permit Fishing - King Pompano
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Trachinotus Falcutus
"The allusive"
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Description: When Permit Fishing you recognize that they are gray or blue as a whole with silvery sides, underbelly or breast showing gold in color when found on grassy bottoms; nearly matching cycle shaped dorsal, and anal fins: wide "v" shaped tail: short, round snout with large nostrils above the lower jaw.
Location: Permit Fishing is offshore on wreckage and rock piles. Inshore on turtle grass flats, sand flats, and outlining channel. Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico and every coastal country. More common in South Florida and the Florida Keys.
Observation: Seen floating above wrecks or in deepwater. Traveling the flats in search of food. Often seen with its tail out of the water with the head pushing through the sand in efforts to scavenge crab.
Size: common to 30 lbs and caught at 50 plus
Food source: shrimp and crabs
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