![]() They have no natural predators and are capable of eating 30,000 juvenile fish a year. Lions are not aggressive (at least to humans), but feature multiple venomous spines capable of imparting a very painful sting. In the Dominican Republic, lionfish have become so overpopulated that residents in some areas refuse to go swimming for fear of stepping on them. Mario an experienced fish keeper from Epic aquarium says that “They may be pretty cool to look at in a saltwater fish tank, but lionfish have become an invasive scourge from Virginia to Miami. Lionfish feature multiple venomous spines capable of imparting a very painful sting. It was a pretty cool sight until the entire crew came to the realization that we’d be far better off fighting a yellowfin tuna for an hour or so than we would be messing with a manta. Once while fishing in the Gulf, I had the awe-inspiring misfortune of hooking into a manta, which leapt 10 feet out of the water on several different occasions. Giant manta rays are another matter entirely. Boga grips and long-handled pliers are a smart play on a bluefish boat. True or not, bluefish seem to bite with purpose and it hurts. Legend has it that the bluefish is the only fish that can see as well out of water as it can while swimming. Prey are transported posteriorly and crushed between the molariform teeth. Wolffish use the caniniform teeth to capture prey including molluscs, crustaceans, echinoderms, and, less commonly, fishes. Mangled fingers cut to the bone will be your souvenir for a careless hook extraction, and when a chopper gets its teeth into you, making him let go can take several agonizing minutes. Teeth are ankylosed to the bone of attachment. There are indeed those times when one is left to wonder about the blue’s appetite for human. If they had a taste for human flesh, no one would go swimming. A school of feeding blues will cut a bunker pod to ribbons. What they possess in strength is surpassed by their ferocity. They have several stripes that run along the back. Bonita Bonita have a streamlined body and are dark blue on top that fades into a silvery sides and belly. The average size of these fish is 1 to 15 pounds. They have a sharply forked tail and razor sharp teeth. Florida Blue fish have sharp teeth, or what we used to call snappers. But be careful of these fish sometimes called the marine piranha because of the way they school up and chase baitfish up onto the beach. Saltwater anglers are very well acquainted with the brute strength of these yellow-eyed battlers–for my money, the hardest fighting fish that swims. Bluefish have a long bluish green body and a light colored belly. After it’s cooked, flake off the dark meat before serving. ![]() If a hungry bluefish (aka chopper) were to go head to head with a piranha, my money would be on the bluefish.
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