Hooked on the King of Swing - April 2023 Fish Recap

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EDITING NOTES:
This month started out with fish pairing off or schooling up. Lookdowns, sharks, tarpons, snooks, cowfish, porcupines, bait balls, and even a porkfish and yellowjack paired up. Bad weather brought in severe rough water for almost two weeks and not much was seen besides crabs, crabs, and more crabs. But when the waters cleared, the cobia duo were one of the first finds. Another awesome find was the fireworms. We have only seen them at night, and this time we caught them during the day. But the day sighting wasn’t the best part - there were two of them!
The music is based on a request of Jazz from the chat. I am not going to lie; I don’t know much about jazz, and that was a challenge as I find it to be a tad slow, and I really wanted some spunk in the mix. Visually, a lot was going on in my head, so it starts with the sultry jazz, followed by swing, then a sneaky detective jazz vibe (perfect for blennies to sneak about), and more swing (insert jazz hands 🤗). At this point - to say I went a bit overboard with the music is an understatement, but when you see the lookdown tails shimming with the music, you can’t help but shake it with them.
Breakdown
• Bait, bait, and more bait
• Barracuda
• Blennies
• Blue runner
• Bluehead wrasse (not in recap - not many spotted)
• Spotfin burrfish
• Porcupine
• Scrawled filefish
• Orangespotted filefish
• Scrawled cowfish
• Smooth trunkfish
• Cero mackerel
• Chubs
• Crabs
• Cobia
• Crevalle jack
• Cubera snapper (new find)
• Doctorfish (not in recap)
• Fireworm
• French angel
• Horse-eyed jack (not in recap - only one spotted)
• Lookdown
• Manatee
• Moonfish
• Pompano
• Porkfish
• Porkfish fry (one spotted - not in recap)
• Ray
• Yellow ray (not in recap)
• Mojarra (not in recap - too far away)
• Nurse shark
• Shark (uncertain of species)
• Shrimp
• Sennet (not in recap - and not many spotted)
• Sheepshead (not in recap - only one spotted)
• Sergeant major
• Snook
• Spanish hog
• Spotwing comb jelly (not in recap)
• Ocean Surgeon (not in recap)
• Tarpon
• Yellow jack
• Yellowtail Parrotfish
• Slug or snail (uncertain of species)
Missing:
Bar Jack, blue fish, bonito, blue tang, balloonfish, highhat, gray triggerfish, sharpnose puffer, margate, mutton snapper, amber jack, almaco jack, hairy blenny, dusky damselfish, cocoa damselfish, mangrove snapper are few and far between, grunts (all types), octopus, arrow crab, grey angel, Atlantic spadefish, all parrotfish besides yellowtail, spotted eagle ray, and turtles
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Music:
There are over six songs mixed in there (I have lost track), all stock music.