Warsaw or Goliath?

[Fishinspot]

Did y'all hear about this huge Grouper? I'm sure most of you did. Guess it could have been a world record but now they are saying after looking at the pictures it is possibly a protected Goliath. Possible fine and charges pending. What do you think about this? Just wondering your thoughts. If it were me and I had caught it I would have let him go if I wasn't sure weather it was a goliath or warsaw. Guess they were pretty positive it was a warsaw. Was definately a monster fish!

http://www.nwfdailynews.com/articles/danie...-bay-billy.html

http://www.nwfdailynews.com/news/possible-...per-probes.html

[rchanner]

That's a tough call from the pictures--I can see traits of both Goliath and Warsaw in that fish. I'll be interested to see how it comes out.

[evernic]

did it occur to anyone, the irony of the "jewfish" re to "goliath"...

in order to offset any possible insult or ethnic slur....they renamed jewfish to goliath...a huge Philistine who murdered jews.........

[rchanner]

did it occur to anyone, the irony of the "jewfish" re to "goliath"...

in order to offset any possible insult or ethnic slur....they renamed jewfish to goliath...a huge Philistine who murdered jews.........

I hadn't picked up on that, but it does have a ring of irony to it, doesn't it?

[DJWILLIAMS]

All I have to say is D A M N !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DJW

[DJWILLIAMS]

So after reading the extensive artical, and this post, is a Warsaw, or a Goliath???

Obviously by looking at the pictures it is a Goliath ( the size of the fish makes me think that) ..... and possibly should be left in the wild to reproduce, but who's to say that the ride up from the bottom of the ocean would not of killed him/her?

Honestly if I would of caught a fish of that size/magnitude I would measure him, and check his gurth, take tons of pictures/maybe videos, and then revive him, so that he can live for 10-20 more years.....

DJW

Edited July 29, 2009 by DJWILLIAMS

[The Hun]

Come on yall. If so many people looked at the fish and were confused about the species then an honest mistake could have been made. If the fish was some how a half breed then it's legal. I don't think the guys should face charges, especially if the talk of permitting one Jewfish to be caught with a permit. The Hun

[florida1098]

I'm 200% for keeping things legal. Been a road patrol LEO for 27 yrs now. All I can say is that would have been a hard fish to let go. Although, I know deep down If I caught it and let it go, sometime much later I would have felt good about it. But, if it was legal and gets consumed, good for the guys catching it. Still, that would of been a hard fish to release.

[aimless]

The tail doesn't look round enough for a goliath to me. Maybe it's different when iit's so big.

[Bakerman]

This has been argued in full on a lot of forums. I suspect you really had to be there.

Edited September 17, 2009 by Bakerman