Tag recapture

General Fishing Discussion
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Caught a tagged fish yesterday with a yellow rec dart tag.
Looked through my records and it was one of my tags :sunglasses:

Thought that was pretty cool.

Caught in same area. At large for 6 wks, grew 0.75"

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very cool! they say trout and reds don’t go far…7 miles max on average.

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Wonder what the odds are of that happening? Pretty cool Dave.

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Too cool! I think I would have done a little happy dance if I did that.

I think I read that they can grow about 2" per month in the summer and .5" per month in the winter, depending on available forage.

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Forage is huge. The dnr has tanks with trout that are 3-4 yrs old and 30"!

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Grew 3/4" in 6 weeks? Did I read that right? That’s a faster growth rate than I’d expect, esp this time of year. Then again I’m a far cry from a marine biologist, so pretty much anything is news to me.

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If I where you I would be playing the powerball. Very for cool sure.

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quote:
Originally posted by Optiker

Caught a tagged fish yesterday with a yellow rec dart tag.
Looked through my records and it was one of my tags :sunglasses:

Thought that was pretty cool.

Caught in same area. At large for 6 wks, grew 0.75"

</font id=“quote”></blockquote id=“quote”>Yes. Cool. That is pretty standard according to the guys that study this stuff, right? If you want to dispute MY response, could you please provide some data from the guys that recorded the data?

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The growth amt is accurate. I know because I measured it both times. My tagged fish are measured to < 1/4" with pinched tails. There is often discrepancies when others measure a tagged fish because they don’t measure accurately or more often don’t pinch the tail. Or have a good measuring device. Reds grow remarkably fast from what I’ve seen. That being said: I’ve caught and measured a tagged red only to get the report and discover it shrank :slight_smile: (for reasons stated above)

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cool stuff, opti!

winter site fidelity is obviously pretty strong, as any good redfish baron knows… I’ve caught one tagged fish this year (orange DNR research tag)- it was at large for 2 years and 1 day, grew from 16.25" to 30.25" and was in the same exact spot! this should be the year that he/she recruits to the adult population and no longer hangs out with the kids.

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Optiker, that is just Neet! You keep that up and you’ll have to start naming them as you catch them:wink::smiley:

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SaltFisher routinely catches sheeps he has tagged. He really does have them named. Eddie Money etc!

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LOL

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only the special ones have names,

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Man O man that’s cool! Did you catch the red close to where you tagged him? and on the same type bait?

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Yes I caught him within a 1/4 mi of where tagged, and possibly on the same piece of structure.

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i caught one that was tagged in cape romain 12 years ago in the harbor this summer

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I like the one where the guy catches the same sword fish a few years later with his wedding band on the upper sword! What goes around comes around, ah the memories of marriage!

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I thought all released fish end up dying.

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All fish end up dieing, just like us :smiley:

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