Top 3 most easily recognized NE fish?

[Mr.X]

Only saw Conger eels once off Plymouth, but they were every where! Next week not a one!

Maybe they took off for the other Plymouth in the UK - lot's of Congers there!

YouTube - Hand Feeding Conger Eels on a Night Dive

 

[marcosdutra]

flounder, striped dass, porgy

 

[AttitudeAdjuster]

Flounder, Cod & Cunner on most of the wrecks I dive.
Pat B

 

[TyGuy]

striped bass, sea raven (if you see them) and skate..

i see plenty of fluke/flounder but i cant tell the difference...if you fry them up they taste about the same...

 

[manni-yunk]

striped bass, sea raven (if you see them) and skate..

i see plenty of fluke/flounder but i cant tell the difference...if you fry them up they taste about the same...

LOL.

Understandable about the Flounder/Fluke.

This is debateable - but here is the most accepted difference.

Really - FLUKE is a summer flounder.So for ease - Fluke is summer flounder and "flounder" is winter flounder. This gets confusing since not everyone calls summer flounder fluke. It is common for people to go out for "Flounder" and mean summer flounder and the same fisherman waits till January and once again targets "flounder" and means winter flounder. The 2 species are very different (not just the same fish in different seasons)

FLUKE have teeth and the eyes are on the left side (when brown side up) and a winter flounder has no teeth and eyes are on the right side of their body. (a VERY small percentage of winter flounder can have their eyes positioned the same as a fluke - but this is rare)

Also - Fluke get significantly larger.



Winter flounder are more prevelant the further N you go in the NE - but in NJ we still get a large amount. They winter in shallow inshore water and summer in deep offshore water (for the most part) which isbasically the opposite migration of Fluke.