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jasm1n8
10-02-2016, 10:52 PM
Caught one today. Do you eat them or they contain toxins?

First time reel in this kind and don't know what to do with it.
Thanks!
Jigman13
10-03-2016, 12:05 AM
When in doubt, release it...
Capt. Lou
10-03-2016, 02:55 AM
Any reason to kill a fish U don't intend to eat or seemingly know nothing about. :confused:
bulletbob
10-03-2016, 06:36 AM
The bar jack has a significant risk of carrying the ciguatera toxin in its flesh, and numerous reports of people contracting the poisoning after consuming the fish. A comprehensive study of the toxin in the West Indies listed the bar jack as a species of intermediate risk of carrying the toxin although most cases in St. Thomas of the Virgin Islands can be traced back to the bar jack.


Do NOT take the chance of eating it.. If you get Ciguatera, you will be so horribly sick, you will wish you were dead.. I know a guy that had it...

Throw that fish out.. It should have gone right back into the drink... bob
Chrisper4694
10-03-2016, 12:19 PM
kind of too late, not sure you can release it any more :rolleyes:
jmurr711
10-03-2016, 12:55 PM
all of those mini jacks we catch are delicious
JDTuna
10-03-2016, 02:24 PM
Most likely a banded rudder fish. Extremely unlikely to be a bar jack. Did it have bars on its sides?
skate king
10-03-2016, 06:03 PM
Why keep it if you are not sure if it edible or even legal to keep based on size?
SaltLife1980
10-03-2016, 09:05 PM
Yeah you should have just let it go. Never keep something you know nothing about. Its a waste at this point.
Dino
10-04-2016, 04:32 PM
it aint a bar jack, and its doesn't have cig. eat it
bulletbob
10-04-2016, 05:28 PM
not good advice,, he didn't know what it was,,, bar jacks are rare this far north, and not many are caught by recs, they don't take bait readily, but down south they are loaded with cig and if by chance he DID catch and eat one, it could put him in the hospital for a week... it was most likely what we called a for decades a pilotfish. I refuse to use the name we call them today...
jasm1n8
10-04-2016, 11:15 PM
Most likely a banded rudder fish. Extremely unlikely to be a bar jack. Did it have bars on its sides?

Yes it has bars on its side. Yellowish color. Small, size like porgy. It seems has no scales.
I will upload the picture if I figure it out how.

Thanks for all the constructive criticism. Lessons learned.
ReelErIn
10-05-2016, 07:35 AM
When in doubt take a min. and look.https://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/discover/species-profiles/caranx-ruber/
jmurr711
10-05-2016, 09:46 AM
yolo just eat it cig is a lie perpetrated by the liberal media.
Blind Archer
10-05-2016, 10:50 AM
Caught one last week with the porgys. We used to catch them by the hundred on the Long branch pier under the chum grinder.. They're not pilot fish but small jacks with a very gold shiny tail third. They also have a small grey band through the eye. Absolutely not the unmentionable BRF.
Super
10-05-2016, 03:04 PM
yolo just eat it cig is a lie perpetrated by the liberal media.

I had ciguatera poisoning. Make no mistake...It's horrible and there's nothing you can do about it.
jasm1n8
10-06-2016, 10:33 AM
Caught one last week with the porgys. We used to catch them by the hundred on the Long branch pier under the chum grinder.. They're not pilot fish but small jacks with a very gold shiny tail third. They also have a small grey band through the eye. Absolutely not the unmentionable BRF.

Yup. I think it is. Now meet this mystery fish.
bolt
10-06-2016, 05:38 PM
When in doubt take a min. and look.https://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/discover/species-profiles/caranx-ruber/

thanks for sharing that link...blue runner is very common in some parts.
jmurr711
10-07-2016, 02:59 PM
I had ciguatera poisoning. Make no mistake...It's horrible and there's nothing you can do about it.

yup like eating chipotle but so worth it