Tagging Drum

Yesterday, we went out with Dr. Hamish Small to help him with his red drum research. We caught 9 red drum and a cobia. They were all tagged and released. We also caught a flounder, which was not released. Three of the largest drum (citation sized) were fitted with pop-off satellite tags. They will release from the fish after 45 days and transmit their data. Please release any of these fish with tag still in place…and report it! Our fish were mostly caught on live spot provided by Tricia Neill (Honey, we are out if you aren’t too busy ).
We also caught bluefish and some full-sized southern and butterfly stingrays. One of the big southerns had a nice cobia swimming with it. Instead of helping me with the stingray, that was kicking my butt, Hamish Small and Wes Blow casted to the cobia. It did turn on their baits but did not bite. Wes did snag the stingray with his jig so I did get some help after all.