Northeast - Chatham Redfish catch /w pic added

A buddy text'd me a pic this week of a 35# redfish saying it was caught off Chatham by guys vertical jigging for bass in the commercial fleet. Saw it posted on Riverview B&T website too, anyone know the story? Pretty cool catch for NE waters. Maybe a State record too, that's a pretty good sized redfish! Congrats to the angler.

After a hurricane in '85 I was on a boat that caught an amberjack in Nantucket Sound, and I remember reading a story about a tarpon caught from a Harwichport jetty in the early 80's too.

Picture added 7/26/12 at 1045am

is it still on the riverview site??

Best eating fish as far as i'm concerned, Minus Snook....

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Thats cool. Looks ike the bass fleet.

That is cool! Maybe with global warming Long Island Sound can become a redfish hotspot.

I think that may be a Black Drum. Red Fish have a black spot on thier tail.

After a hurricane in '85 I was on a boat that caught an amberjack in Nantucket Sound, and I remember reading a story about a tarpon caught from a Harwichport jetty in the early 80's too.

On another site there was confirmation of a Tarpon caught in a fish trap in RI a couple weeks ago.

I'm curious if there are surface temp records that go back to the 80's and see how they compare to this year. It would be pretty neat to get more consistent bites from tarpon, cobia, redfish etc. in the area.

I think that may be a Black Drum. Red Fish have a black spot on thier tail.

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I think that may be a Black Drum. Red Fish have a black spot on thier tail.
x3...the shape of the head does look like a Redfish, but they catch Drum in big numbers in NJ and there's no telltale black spot...seems more likely that that would make its way up here than a redfish.

nice red! not a black. Definatly a red drum!!

For comparison, here's a photo of a BD from the interweb.

Redfish. What amazes me is not that a red was caught on-Cape, but that it was caught on the backside! When I lived in Cotuit, a guy I knew caught a tarpon in the harbor while fluke fishing...

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Several years ago there was a Manatee in Bristol Harbor.....and I caught school BFT in the 25lb size 200 yards off Ocean Drive the same year.... never know what those current changes and temps will bring us. Keep your eye out for Grouper.........

Yeah, my first guess was a red drum too, but WTF do I know, I've never seen either one!

I'm blown away! It wouldn't surprise me at all in the sound but he was in the cold stuff.

100% a red drum. not all have spots. some have 100 spots. some have 2, some have 10. very rare for that far north!

Great... So your telling me I can catch one without spots? I'd feel robbed!

That's why I love going fishing up here, because you never know what you are going to catch...

That is cool!! Nice fish too:thumbsup:

That is a serious fleet in the backround:o

Typical of Chatham?????

That is cool!! Nice fish too:thumbsup:

That is a serious fleet in the backround:o

Typical of Chatham?????

They come by the hundreds. Morning into night

Typical of Chatham?????

On a commercial day, sure is. Actually looks light!

Nice bull red. Love catching those on the flats with 12-15lb tackle.

On a commercial day, sure is. Actually looks light!

Proof how many people don't know where to go. imagine the poor prick that discovered there were a lot of fish here?guess his secret honey hole is not so secret anymore:o. similar crap has happened to me , course not anywhere near this scale.jesus ,what a zoo.


Nice redfish by the way . and very cool catch.