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giericd

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i have a few great places for red grouper. on average i catch 40-50 a trip that are undersize and released, my 2 legal size fish for the box and 2-10 other keeper size fish that also get released, GREAT SPOT! My last trip out there was about a month ago and encountered some thing I have never seen (well smelled) before. The red grouper looked real healthy but the second they came out of the water you could smell a strong smell like decaying fish. Man they stunk! It seemed like 50% of them smelled like this the other 50% didn't. Have any of you guys ever encountered this?
 
jigngrub

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Re: red grouper

You have encountered a school of the highly elusive and very ill mannered farting Red Grouper!!!:eek:

Flattus Grouperous Maximus
 
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giericd

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Re: red grouper

funny, farting grouper. lol
i have been fishing in S.W. FL since '81 and have seen a lot of red tides in that time, but would red tide cause one fish to smell like rot and the next fish a few seconds later to seem normal even though you could not see any signs of illness? all of these fish looked perfect, nice color, gills looked good, nice and fat, no parasites, the ocasional fish had a small tear in the thin tissue at it's lip where it was caught before and the rip was healing nicely. even the water smelled fine. Do you think it could have been sorta bad breath from some thing they were eating like rotting cull from a shrimp boat? i know a fish with bad breath sounds funny but it sounds logical.
 
island mike

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Re: red grouper

If the front smelled that bad I do not even want to be near that back end,

Very strange phenomena in any case...

maybe a peppermint helps.lol
 
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kahuna123

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Re: red grouper

We don't really target them up here. One reason is they tend to have worms.
 
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Re: red grouper

kahuna123 said:
We don't really target them up here. One reason is they tend to have worms.
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Red grouper? :confused: I've heard that of drum - but not grouper. I caught tons of keeper gags over the years, but I haven't caught many keeper red grouper, they are mostly short. But you are saying Red Grouper are known to have worms?
 
Fishermark

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Yes - I guess I must be confusing the two. And I thought my biggest problem was confusing gag and black grouper! :rolleyes: Do the Red Hind have the green eyes and nice red color? That's the fish I have been calling Red Grouper.
 
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