22.5 Pound Red Snapper

[Karma-Kazi]

This was an amazing Sight, not seen by many. This fish was near the world record for Red Snapper! A real Dinosaur! Estimated age of 100-125 years old. Wow...

Enjoy

-Steve...Cheers

 

[richmake]

I looked in my log books after you left Steve and I can't remember getting one that big....as far as I can remember....congrats to your Dad...
thanks again for a great trip....

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[Deewar25]

thats a hog as snappers go...nice I miss getting into those - had a few great holes up at Cortez and got 3 or 4 over 10 pounds. One may have pushed 20, but don't know for sure - I remember it draggin my row boat all around the bay before I pulled it up. The good ol days.

 

[bigredsnapper]

That's one big red snapper. BRS

 

[highlights]

Hate to burst your bubble. Thats no Snapper. It's a yellow eye.

Check the world record again.

Nice fish none the less!

 

[Deewar25]

quote:Originally posted by highlights

Hate to burst your bubble. Thats no Snapper. It's a yellow eye.

Check the world record again.

Nice fish none the less!

True in terms of the record stats - good point - obviously we always call them snappers up here (sounds cooler!), but they are technically yellow-eye - looks like the record there runs just over 39 pounds. Great eating regardless and you never have the catch and release argument which is handy as well

 

[kngfsh7]

That is a big yelloweye - but it looks too clean to be a real old-timer. I've aged a couple 18lbers that looked like that, and they came out at between 28 and 36 years old. I also aged a 22lber that had ragged and blackened fins, and was obviously very long in the tooth. I couldn't read the lines in the otolith after about 75 years. The older fish was also much more heavily parasitized and not nearly as good eating as the other two.

 

[264winmag]

Nice Yelloweye[8D] good thing you can keep them up or over there.would be a floater anyway if you tried to release it without popping his gut. to big for an eagle

nice catch.

 

[Luna]

Oh, poor Nemo.