Any great tropical finds this season?

[fishies7]

I haven't seen any posts yet this season about your tropical finds. Show me what you've got! We'd like to make a trip up from Pittsburgh again this year if we can fit it into our schedule. Last year we brought back a massive harvest of Caribbean species and are hoping this is another good year for tropicals!

 

[fishome25]

I went out for the first time this year. saw 5 reef butterfly, many spotfin butterfly, 1 snowy grouper, several doctorfish, 1 filefish, school of goatfish.

 

[fishies7]

Thanks, Tom! Did you dive the bridge? If we come up, I hope we can go diving together again this year! I am armed with a new "toy". A slurp gun! It was just given to me, and I can hardly wait to give it a try!

 

[chuckbuc]

I went on saterday by oak beach got a few pipefish,needlenose,burfish,a tiny fish which to me looked like a permit,a ton of penut bunker and spearing which was my main reason for going ..

 

[fishies7]

Our trip is set for the first weekend in Oct! I can't wait! Any else been in the water this season? Any great or unusually finds?

 

[George_G]

Our trip is set for the first weekend in Oct! I can't wait! Any else been in the water this season? Any great or unusually finds?

This link is to the latest post by the collecting guru, Todd Gardner:

https://www.reefs.com/blog/2015/08/21/long-island-collecting-log-things-are-heating-up/

And I made my first trip of the year last Sunday with Greg (outeastreef) and his family. 92 (not a misprint!) Butterflyfish, and two Boxfish -- the only tropicals. Plus a lot of the usual local stuff most of which we left there.

George

 

[fishies7]

We are so excited for our upcoming trip next month! We look forward to visiting with George and Regina, as well as collecting some exciting Caribbean species! Fingers crossed for a blue angel this year!

Keep posting accounts of what you are finding!