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5 days in Florida 2015
04-11-2015, 07:58 PM (This post was last modified: 04-12-2015 12:00 PM by MuskieBait.)
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5 days in Florida 2015
Some of my long targeted species were finally captured...plus some very beautiful fish.

I caught 17 new species from 5 days of fishing, and there are many more species that were caught but I didn't photograph. I would figure a conservative guess of 40+ species caught during the 5 days.

Florida had given me 102 new lifer species over 38 total fishing days (over the span of 4 trips). And yet, there are still lots of fish that the state has to offer. Unbelievable! I'll definitely be back!

Here are the stories to share. But I will post most of the fish pictures below. It is never the same without reading the stories though. You'll never get the sense of struggles we went through to catch some of these species.

http://muskiebaitadventures.blogspot.ca/...day-1.html

http://muskiebaitadventures.blogspot.ca/...day-2.html

http://muskiebaitadventures.blogspot.ca/...day-3.html

http://muskiebaitadventures.blogspot.ca/...day-4.html

http://muskiebaitadventures.blogspot.ca/...day-5.html

http://muskiebaitadventures.blogspot.ca/...day-6.html

Yellow Sea Chub (Kyphosus incisor) - Species #413

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Black Margate (Anisotremus surinamensis) - Species #414

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Grass Porgy (Calamus arctifrons) - Species #415

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Smooth Trunkfish (Rhinesomus triqueter) - Species #416

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Initial phase Queen Parrotfish (Scarus vetula) - Species #417

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Initial phase Stoplight Parrotfish (Sparisoma viride) - Species #418

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Terminal phase Redband Parrotfish (Sparisoma aurofrenatum)

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Peacock Cichlid (Cichla ocellaris)

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Hornet Tilapia (Tilapia buttikoferi) - Species #419

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Spotted Tilapia (Tilapia mariae)

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Blue Tilapia (Oreochromis aureus) - Species #420

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Pike Killifish (Belonesox belizanus) - Species #421

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Jewelfish (Hemichromis bimaculatus)

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Black Acara (Cichlasoma bimaculatum)

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Mangrove Gambusia (Gambusia rhizophorae) - Species #422

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Sheepshead Minnow (Cyprinodon variegatus variegatus) - Species #423

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Blackear Wrasse (Halichoeres poeyi) - Species #424

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Florida Pompano (Trachinotus carolinus) - Species #425

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Bluehead Wrasse (Thalassoma bifasciatum)

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Bermuda Sea Chub (Kyphosus sectatrix)

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Rainbow Parrotfish (Scarus guacamaia) - Species #426

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Dollar Sunfish (Lepomis marginatus) - Species #427

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Brown Hoplo (Hoplosternum littorale) - Species #428

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Atlantic Lookdown (Selene vomer) - Species #429

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These are so beautiful I just have to show the second one I caught...

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Other species caught but not photographed...

Sergeant Major
Spottail Pinfish
Slippery Dick Wrasse
Redtail Parrotfish
Porkfish
Tomtate Grunt
French Grunt
Bigeye Scad
Atlantic Bumper
Slender Mojarra
Sand Perch
Houndfish
Bandtail Pufferfish
Yellow Bullhead
Walking Catfish
Eastern Mosquitofish
Mayan Cichlid
Seminole Killifish
Golden Topminnow

Malama o ke kai

Caution - Objects in picture are smaller than they appear. I am genetically predisposed to make fish look bigger.

Life List: 577 species and counting (2016: 91 new species)
http://muskiebaitadventures.blogspot.ca/...-list.html
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5 days in Florida 2015 - MuskieBait - 04-11-2015 07:58 PM
RE: 5 days in Florida 2015 - OldTimer - 04-12-2015, 07:29 AM
RE: 5 days in Florida 2015 - MuskieBait - 04-12-2015, 09:03 AM
RE: 5 days in Florida 2015 - Eli - 04-12-2015, 11:28 PM
RE: 5 days in Florida 2015 - MuskieBait - 04-13-2015, 12:23 AM
RE: 5 days in Florida 2015 - zippyFX - 04-13-2015, 10:13 PM

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