Aquari fish caught in NY?

[scotty]

count me in for sure. cant wait

 

[GQ22]

sounds great, count me in. this would prob be one of the more interest trips as im amazed by what im hearing. on a slightly smaller scale, in coney island along the rock barriers on the beach, i caught a few crabs that were brown and green and put them in my fuge. they are still living and do not seem to eating any of my coral ( i have xenia's in my fuge) i saw a guy also catching hermit crabs and snails too. the way he showed me to look for these guys is to look under good sized rocks, and scrape away the walls of mussle and shells to reveal all sorts of stuff. i also shook off a bunch of large pods from the batches of mussles and just fed them to my fish. if you have triggers, the live crabs he said are good to eat for them.

 

[Crakeur lost his password]

I'm not certified so I am out, but I suggest doing the dive in the late summer or early fall when the waters are the warmest and the fish are most diverse.

Also, most of the fish I mentioned more than likely won't be seen (the sunfish, turtles, billfish)as they are generally found in deeper waters but hey, you never know. Last September my dad called me from the boat. He was aabout 1/2 a mile off shore in the ocean and he was surrounded by whales playing. We usually don't see them closer than 5 miles off the beach.

 

[aaron]

I caught fish for years using only a mask and snorkel, Some of the best fish I ever caught were only in three or four feet of water. Scuba does make it easier but not being certified certainly doesnt rule you out.

 

[Crakeur lost his password]

well, I have no desire to swim at the surface when the good stuff is ten or more feet down.

actually, it would take a hell of a lot to get me to swim in any water off coney island or most of the west end of the island.

 

[jhale]

Originally posted by Crakeur lost his password:
well, I have no desire to swim at the surface when the good stuff is ten or more feet down.

actually, it would take a hell of a lot to get me to swim in any water off coney island or most of the west end of the island.

in past years there has been a problem with hospital waste and other garbage showing up in those areas. I would do some research before you go diving to make sure the water is safe.

 

[charliethetuna88]

i went fishing in jones inlet 2 days ago and found a large dead porcipine puffer and i always catch trigger jumbos ones they alwys come mid to late august to sept thats when the waters the warmest when i went 2 days ago the warter was extra clean like blue

 

[charliethetuna88]

also i went out of shinnecock inlet about a month ago and there where 3 huge baskin sharks they where like 30 footers man what an amazing animal they swam right under the boat i gotta lot of pics of them

 

[phk36]

if you drag a net with two people you can catch some look downs trigers sea horse tangs. my friend has done this in the hamptons. also at the atlantis aquarium in riverhead they stock a tank with fish they catch local in the summer months

 

[Crakeur lost his password]

post the pics charlie

 

[aaron]

I have current tetnus and heppatitis shots so I should be OK.
Also I wouldnt go in the water for a few days after it has rained.
I think the biggest problem is the visibility.
That and the fact that the fish you catch at coney island have three eyes.

 

[glipper69]

I see sunfish all the time in the summer right in jamaica bay or just outside marine park bridge by roxbury/Breezy point.

you see that little flapping on top of the water.

As a kid my father was fishing with my grandfather in jamaica bay when all of a sudden a Killer whale appeared about 20 feet off the side of there little 15ft boat. and right behid it was a slew of coast gard and police boats. they drove the poor thing into the shallows and shot it.

real smart people back then.

Frank

[ June 24, 2005, 12:53 PM: Message edited by: glipper69 ]

 

[Reef Guy]

wtf...the shot it? Why? then again how the hell would they catch a killer whale, jamaica bay is pretty deep too isnt it? I mean thats where all the Oil tankers pass

 

[jhale]

now I'm going to be mad for a while thinking about that.

 

[spykes]

i think there's a society that goes againest killing whales....

 

[jhale]

are you talking about green peace?
I don't know if they do that anymore.
They would mess with whalers by driving there zodiac's between them and the whales.

 

[Crakeur lost his password]

we get wright whales out in the hamptons. every so often one strays thru the inlet and winds up in Moriches bay. Hasn't happened in years tho. Probably due to the shifting sand bars around the inlet.

 

[cali_reef]

Check out this page for pictures of the 2003 LIRA collection trip:

http://www.lireef.org/meetings/september_2003.htm

marrone, Its the "gulf stream", jet stream whould bring airplanes up here quicker

.

 

[glipper69]

yes they shot it, but you got to remember this was about 50 years ago when my father was a kid. I am sure they wouldn't do that NOW. Now they would probably bend over backwards to get that thing out of the bay somehow.

Frank