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Double Creek Smooth Puffer
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Poster NJ Dusky Offline
Posted 07/06/12 07:58 PM
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Caught during today's charter. Typically a pelagic fish except for the juveniles which this is not.
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#162784 - 07/06/12 08:05 PM Re: Double Creek Smooth Puffer [Re: NJ Dusky]
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Wow, cool looking fish! Unlike our northern puffers/blowfish, these actually are poisonous, right?
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#162791 - 07/06/12 09:03 PM Re: Double Creek Smooth Puffer [Re: srl]
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Pretty cool, but can the smooth puffer interbreed with our northern blowfish creating poisonous halfbreeds.... I love eating blowfish, but this picture kinda freaked me out.

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#162801 - 07/07/12 05:51 AM Re: Double Creek Smooth Puffer [Re: FiveSeas]
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Wow, that's one weird puffer! Reminds me of those odd looking mirror or leather carp you see in freshwater. That is the third puffer species I know of in the bay...northern...burrfish...and now smooth.
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#162812 - 07/07/12 11:11 AM Re: Double Creek Smooth Puffer [Re: tombro]
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Too bad they're poisonous - looks like he's got some nice meat on him!
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#162850 - 07/07/12 09:42 PM Re: Double Creek Smooth Puffer [Re: Davesoutfishin']
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Never seen one of those before!
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#162976 - 07/10/12 07:15 PM Re: Double Creek Smooth Puffer [Re: CATalyst]
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Also a rabbitfish?

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#162977 - 07/10/12 07:31 PM Re: Double Creek Smooth Puffer [Re: Cptbunkerhead]
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Oopss, wrong fish

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#164013 - 07/30/12 05:05 PM Re: Double Creek Smooth Puffer [Re: NJ Dusky]
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caught one about 10lbs on flyns knoll off sandy hook on 7/29 did not know what it was until i seen yours ty
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