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. ![]() 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. 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. ![]() Saltwater anglers are very well acquainted with the brute strength of these yellow-eyed battlers–for my money, the hardest fighting fish that swims. 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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