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Strange fish ! What could it be ???

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Etruscan

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Hi, lads !
A friend of mine caught this strange fish last week at Cabo Verde...
Never seen before anything like that...
Dose somebody know the name ????
 

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Looks like a jack of some sort maybe a GT ((giant trevally) or amberjack?
I saw some very big jacks caught when I was there.
How big was it?
The locals had a name for the big jacks but I cant remember what is was?
 
The weight was about 7-8 Kg.. It' s not a jack trevally. We caught some and they are different .. We also caught "african pompanos" (alectis ciliaris) and "shareu" (seriola fasciata) but the one of the pic was different and was the only we saw /caught..:head
 
guys
this is a MAHI MAHI dorado with a small deformation
that looks like it by its mouth & head structure

some on my kayak


look again at the head of the fish
 

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Does look like a mahi. The photo is pretty crap though so cant tell. looks very much like a member of the mahi mahi from what ive seen in hawaii......but the bottom jaw looks like something ive never seen.
 
I know... the picture is very bad..
This other one is not better but you can see the slim body ot the fish in the left hand (the one on the right hand is a little wahoo..)
 

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Sembrerebbe una Lampuga (Mahi). Anzi, un gran bel Lampugone.
 
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spaghetti said:
Sembrerebbe una Lampuga (Mahi). Anzi, un gran bel Lampugone.
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Probabilmente si.. Quell' asino del mio amico se ne è sbarazzato subito dopo aver fatto quello schifo di foto e non ho potuto vedere il pesce di persona...
(so probably it' s a female mahi... unfortunately I couldn' t see the fish with my eyes..)
 
Etruscan said:
Probabilmente si.. Quell' asino del mio amico se ne è sbarazzato subito dopo aver fatto quello schifo di foto e non ho potuto vedere il pesce di persona...
(so probably it' s a female mahi... unfortunately I couldn' t see the fish with my eyes..)
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I hope he ate at least a chunk of it. Lampuga (Mahi MAhi, or Dolphin fish) is very good to eat IMHO. At least the small ones we find in the Mediterranean.

I've never seen any of them bigger than a couple of kilos over here. But I KNOW the big ones are in our waters too, somewhere. Look what a lucky Deeperblue guy speared at Riva Trigoso (I said Riva Trigoso!!!!). http://forums.deeperblue.com/medite...atch-photo-spearfishing-italy.html#post664993 . Alberto, they must be somewhere out here! We just need a little bit of "K factor"...
 
Coriphaena equiselis !!!! :thankyou
 

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The lack of green and gold made me think the same; female C. equiselis
Maybe Etruscan's friend could shoot another one and pass it around for us to all try, er, examine!
 
hteas said:
The lack of green and gold made me think the same; female C. equiselis
Maybe Etruscan's friend could shoot another one and pass it around for us to all try, er, examine!
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Impossible, for now... The fish was shot in Cabo Verde, two weeks ago, where we were together. But the holiday is over and we are back to Europe (and winter..) now.. :waterwork
Maybe we go again next year...
The following was my best catch...
 

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nice alectis alexandrinus
how it is call in Italian?

here we call it Camelfish or Ben gurion fish ( first primeminister of israel) rofl
for the shape of the head


i must say we have this fish in the med some examples we catch from a kayak

a very tasty fish
saluto amico
 

Ah, ah... very interesting !
We have not an italian name for that fish..
We just use the "international" name: african pompano..
I' ve never seen it in the Mediterranean but probably you can find it in the eastern part for the closeness of Suez channel..
 
Countermand ! It' s not an Alectis Alexandrinus but an Alectis Ciliaris. The fish has not the slight concavity near the eyes which distinguishes the two species !
 
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Glad it wasn't something rare
(Hi Mundial, have you switched from SOT kayak to surf ski?)
 
hey MR-X
no this is a a SOT but fiber one
or like the south africans call it fishing sky
happy new year mate:friday
 
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