{"id":3872,"date":"2020-05-25T19:22:15","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T02:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/?page_id=3872"},"modified":"2020-05-25T19:22:54","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T02:22:54","slug":"bluefish-by-any-other-name","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/?page_id=3872","title":{"rendered":"Bluefish And How They Grow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/images.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3873\" width=\"322\" height=\"115\" srcset=\"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/images.jpeg 375w, http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/images-300x107.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 322px) 100vw, 322px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Pomatomus saltatrix<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>SNAPPERS:<\/strong> Baby bluefish from just a few ounces to about a pound. Fun to catch, good to eat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>COCKTAIL BLUES:<\/strong> Only slightly more mature than their younger snapper brethren. These fish range from one to 2 or 3 pounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>TAYLOR BLUES:<\/strong> Perhaps the best eating size of all:  3 to 5 pounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>RACER BLUES:<\/strong> Early season fish, heading up the East Coast in early spring; large head, skinny body, greenish in color.  Can be any size.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>CHOPPERS:<\/strong> Typically any large, aggressive bluefish. For our purposes, anything over 5 pounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ALLIGATOR BLUES:<\/strong> Approaching 10 pounds or more. Range, 8 to 12 pounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>GORILLA BLUES:<\/strong>  Above 10 pounds. Range, 12 to 15 pounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MONSTER BLUES:<\/strong> 15 pounds and up. Bluefish can reach 20 pounds or more. The world record bluefish was caught on Jan. 30, 1972 at Hatteras, North Carolina. It weighed 31 pounds, 12 ounces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pomatomus saltatrix SNAPPERS: Baby bluefish from just a few ounces to about a pound. Fun to catch, good to eat. COCKTAIL BLUES: Only slightly more mature than their younger snapper brethren. These fish range from one to 2 or 3 pounds. TAYLOR BLUES: Perhaps the best eating size of all: 3 to 5 pounds. RACER [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3872","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3872"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3878,"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3872\/revisions\/3878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}