New Species Found
During a fishing charter over in the Bahamas, were were doing a little bottom fishing. The under sea drop off we were fishing was a steep wall with the top of the wall inabout 100 feet and the bottom was well over 1,200 feet just a few yards off shore of us. We were fishing in about 300′ of water catching Red Hind Groupers & Black Snappers when on a drop the boat had slipped a little off shore of our mark. My bait hit the bottom some where between 700′ and 800′ feet. With almost all of the line off my reel and a long crank up a head of me I suddenly felt the rig get heavy. Some kind of fish was on. A long crank up and a found my self looking at the first fish that I had caught as an adult that I could not Identify. A long story latter and a lot of help from a Marine Biologist at the IGFA we had discovered that our 3lb fish was an undiscovered fish in the Tilefish Family. I was given the honor of choosing the name of this new fish, we called it a Bahama Tiger Tilefish.
IGFA Fishing Records
Over the years we have had a few World Record, some still stand.
- Bahama Tilefish
- Lizard Fish
- Black Fin Tuna on 12lb line
- Scalloped Hamer Head Shark
- Yellow Mouth Grouper