Collecting Stray Fish

Horn · Aug 11, 2015

I will like to collect some tropical strays by Long Island. I live on the western end of the south shore, The town is Lawrence if anyone knows the area.

Should I go into the Bay or ocean? Dip net, minnow trap or cast net?

Thanks

redfishbluefish · Aug 11, 2015

Following along. I haven't done this, but I know some of our local club members have done it in inlets and estuaries along the Jersey coast. I know they've caught in Shark River Inlet using a sinking seine that was left for a couple minutes and then quickly picked up. They have also used scuba and nets to catch them as well in deeper waters.

Usctom · Aug 11, 2015

You will find more strays on south shore (ocean). Cast net would be best bet out out of your 3 options. Beach seine would probably be the best if you can find one.

Horn · Aug 21, 2015

Thanks everyone for the advice. Could I just go to any beach?

Humblefish · Aug 21, 2015

This sounds like a thread for @Paul B

Paul B · Aug 24, 2015

You would go to Oak Beach Inn beach with a 20' 2 man net. I am going tomorrow to the tide pool in the Sound for shrimp and hopefully next week to where I mentioned depending on the tide which must be low

Humblefish · Aug 24, 2015

You guys should like meet up sometime. At the beach, with your shirts off. Perhaps a bromance would flourish.

Cleo642 · Aug 24, 2015

Humblefish said:
You guys should like meet up sometime. At the beach, with your shirts off. Perhaps a bromance would flourish.

You too crazy. Lol
I wonder how many tropical fish they have in new York area? Stray fish, like they ran away from home.

Humblefish · Aug 24, 2015

Cleo642 said:
You too crazy. Lol
I wonder how many tropical fish they have in new York area? Stray fish, like they ran away from home.

I bet when Sandy hit some tropical fish found their way down into the sewer, where they are currently residing as "fish troglodytes".

Cleo642 · Aug 24, 2015

Humblefish said:
I bet when Sandy hit some tropical fish found their way down into the sewer, where they are currently residing as "fish troglodytes".

Lol, some fish would better in the sewer than in am aquarium sometimes. Lol The irony.
There are schools of moorish idols living down there, turning into gangs of troglodytes.

alamo28 · Aug 25, 2015

Down in FL its easy to catch tropicals in the Keys, you just have to be careful that they are reef safe

Paul B · Aug 25, 2015

Me and Abe Lincoln have been collecting fish (and amphipods) for quite a while. If he was with me instead of going to Ford's Theater, He would still be with us. Kind of.

Video

Humblefish · Aug 25, 2015

Paul, can we see a pic of you & Abe together?

With Photoshop it can be done!

Paul B · Aug 25, 2015

Abe was camera shy. I think we had a guy do an oil painting of us but it is hanging in the capital.
I went collecting grass shrimp today, right here.

I took a guy with me collecting and I have been telling him how many shrimp there are so I am glad we got a few hundred shrimp. If we didn't collect any, I would have been up Sheets Creek

Horn · Aug 25, 2015

Any advice on collecting pods?

Paul B · Aug 25, 2015

Pod season is over. There are still pods but they are so few that it is not worth it. I think they all go on vacation this time of the year. At the beginning of the summer you just have to lift a rock at low tide and swish it into a bucket of water to get thousands of them. I was there today but it is slim pickins.

Horn · Oct 29, 2015

Is it to late to catch tropicals? Is point lookout near Lido Beach and Long Beach a good spot? I will like to catch groupers.

Any tips? I have a dip net?

redfishbluefish · Oct 29, 2015

Although they have been know to venture up the east coast, I don't think you'll want an Atlantic ocean grouper. First off any grouper requires a large tank, but the Atlantic ocean group can grow to over eight feet and weigh more than 400 pounds.