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Thanks for the ID, I thought it could be a Bonito but my fish ID book shows them with straight lines, not crooked like this one. No, I didn't eat them since I gave them away to a friend. I made sure I bloodied them well and removed the innards right away to prevent any bad tasting flesh. He cooked them as fillets over a grill and says they tasted OK, of course, he marinated them with lemon juice and spices for 2 days prior to cooking them so they were very tasty. You're right about them being fun to catch, they sure gave us a run for the money on our rigs!

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Bonito we don't eat here. We use them for bait or just release them.
They are fun on a spec rod with 10lb test. They sure will test your drag. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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bonito:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...a/4e06d210.gif

Little Tunny:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...a/99d7d087.gif

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Good picture, from the fins I'll say it's a Little Tunny.

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If you have to chose between those two, and you caught it in Florida, you have a 99.999% chance that it's a little tunny. I hear people talk about catching "bonito" in Florida all the time yet I have never actually seen a true bonito (sarda sarda) that far South. Not to mention that if the fish you caught had been a bonito, it would be a pending world record (bonito aren't that big).

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I agree, these babies would have made excellent giant Atlantic Blue Marlin bait back home in PR!