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Offline chawk250

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Fluke with hickies!
« on: September 06, 2007, 02:54:26 PM »
Went fluking 9/5.  Caught 10 fluke and as well as other various species.  Although 5 fluke were over the 17" NJ minimum, we wound up keeping only 3 because 2 that were both around the 18" mark had round orange/purple bruise looking marks on their white side.  On one of those, the white side appeared to actually be turning a yellow or orange color especially around the fins.  Also there was what appeared to be an algae bloom in the Keansburg area.

Has anyone encountered this?>>>CH 


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Re: Fluke with hickies!
« Reply #1 on: September 06, 2007, 03:08:14 PM »
Ive caught fluke with rats in the stomach but never a orange colored one :o


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Re: Fluke with hickies!
« Reply #2 on: September 06, 2007, 06:29:32 PM »
Hey chawk.  Like to Welcome you to the site. I missed your last couple post.. TT^

Sounds a little strange..  Humm?



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Re: Fluke with hickies!
« Reply #3 on: September 07, 2007, 08:38:05 PM »
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Re: Fluke with hickies!
« Reply #4 on: September 10, 2007, 03:11:04 PM »
Okay, so nobody else has ever seen this???

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Re: Fluke with hickies!
« Reply #5 on: September 10, 2007, 07:04:08 PM »
Chawk, I have seen fish with bite marks out of them and then the heal marks.  Some of there fish were bruised where they were bitten.  Is this similar to what you saw?  If so, not uncommon and I usually cut that part out of the fillet just to make it look more appetizing.   TT^
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Re: Fluke with hickies!
« Reply #6 on: September 11, 2007, 03:41:19 PM »
Capt. Joe, no, these were not bite marks.  In the middle of the body, they had about inch and a half, round yellowish purple marks.  The one that had multiple marks, also had a yellow tinge on its underside. 

I almost always have a camera aboard, but I did not have it that day.  I had seen this once before.  But since it was only one fish, one time I thought little of it.  But two out of 10 is somethinge else.>>>CH


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Re: Fluke with hickies!
« Reply #7 on: September 11, 2007, 06:39:35 PM »
The marks sound like a blunt injury ???. I was unable to match a disease to the description.

The yellow belly is interesting. Fluke are masters of camo but that is on the topside.
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Re: Fluke with hickies!
« Reply #8 on: September 11, 2007, 11:10:59 PM »
maybe it was the type of bottom that they were in that caused it.... i had fluke that had  something on it that looked like this  o=  round thing with 2 things off it really weird  looking..no bigger than  half a pencil eraser.
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Re: Fluke with hickies!
« Reply #9 on: September 11, 2007, 11:58:28 PM »
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