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12-19-2013, 11:04 AM | #1 |
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White margates stateside
Anyone else seen or shot big white margate recently out of Miami? Took this bigun in 115 on a wreck the other day , 2nd decent size one out of Miami . Was under the impression these things are all over in the Bahamas but don't see them around here on the regular at all . I thought it was a giant hogfish all whited out when I first saw it.
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12-19-2013, 11:20 AM | #2 |
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Re: White margates stateside
I've shot them pretty big in the keys.
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12-19-2013, 11:55 AM | #3 |
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Re: White margates stateside
I usually have seen them big in the keys as well.
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12-19-2013, 04:10 PM | #4 |
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Re: White margates stateside
That's about an average size one here in the Keys. Actually pretty common.
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12-19-2013, 06:03 PM | #5 |
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Re: White margates stateside
We see a lot of them but we usually don't shoot them a lot because there is almost always something better on the reef here is my brother's personal best Margate.
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12-19-2013, 06:47 PM | #6 |
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Re: White margates stateside
I have shot them in excess of 8lbs in the West Indies. I don't eat them personally though, as their meat is quite tough.
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12-19-2013, 07:00 PM | #7 |
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Re: White margates stateside
Damn! That's a big grunt. On the west coast we catch these plenty while fishing for grouper/snapper. We keep the bigger ones as some days we end up with a pile of them and nothing else. They are tasty! IMO, better than snapper.
We don't get them near as big as that though.
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12-19-2013, 07:59 PM | #8 |
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Re: White margates stateside
Margates that size are fairly common in the Keys and all over the Bahamas. I've heard they are good eating but I just pass them up.
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