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Old 05-16-2016, 07:13 PM   #1
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Mango/Cuda

A couple nice fish


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Old 05-18-2016, 07:45 AM   #2
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Re: Mango/Cuda

That's a monster mango
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Old 05-18-2016, 08:14 AM   #3
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Re: Mango/Cuda

Mango was 29" and the cuda was 66" we used him to draw in the bull sharks

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Old 05-19-2016, 09:51 PM   #4
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Re: Mango/Cuda

did you get a weight on the mango? How deep?
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Old 05-19-2016, 09:55 PM   #5
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Re: Mango/Cuda

No weight just length. We was freediving and chumming them off the bottom in 60' 10 miles of the East Coast.

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Old 05-19-2016, 11:58 PM   #6
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Re: Mango/Cuda

Whoa, sure that was a Mangrove? Did you check the roof of his mouth? That's a HUGE mangrove if genuine. Congrats! BTW, I do love me some 'Cuda, too. That one is a little too big for my comfort level but they are tasty. 3' and under go in the box after I chop off their stinky heads.
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Re: Mango/Cuda

Don't know anything about the roof of its mouth but I went with some pros that seem to know their stuff. East coast dive charter. They say they get them every day.

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Old 05-28-2016, 12:16 PM   #8
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Chumming up Bull sharks hoping there were some Cobia with them?
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Re: Mango/Cuda

Yes that in kingfish

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Old 05-28-2016, 03:34 PM   #10
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Don't know anything about the roof of its mouth but I went with some pros that seem to know their stuff. East coast dive charter.
Even a lot of the "pros" can't identify the differences. Small Cuberas are easily mistaken for Mangroves. The identifying feature on the roof's of their mouths is about the only way to distinguish between the two.

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Good looking out Marcus will use this information next time to make my own assumptions. And your right even pros sometimes make mistakes. Just like the AJ'S I had to do my own research to do a proper ID. After doing my own research I spoke with a field officer for FWC Wildlife Management even he got the identification wrong.

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Good looking out Marcus will use this information next time to make my own assumptions. And your right even pros sometimes make mistakes. Just like the AJ'S I had to do my own research to do a proper ID. After doing my own research I spoke with a field officer for FWC Wildlife Management even he got the identification wrong.

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lol...yea the FWC officers are wrong VERY often. It's best to keep the regulations(always changing) and fish ID info on board in order to minimize inconveniences. The most identifying feature between Greater and Lesser AJ's is the difference in the brownish stripe thru their eye. I've shot quite a few lesser AJ's in relatively shallow water. I've also shot some big Greaters in 45' of water at the right time of year.
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It's a little more than the eye size and color. Size changes everything including gill rakes. Would love/hate to spend 10 mints explains how to tell the difference but I'm sure you like me have Google.

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Nice fish! Looks like a cubera to me.
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It's a little more than the eye size and color.
Naw, dude. There's a brown stripe on their head that extends thru the eye to the dorsal fin on Greaters, not such on the Lessers.
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