The big red that I caught in the Broad River a couple of weeks ago was tagged. Hunter cut the tag off before we released it to swim again.
The following day, I cleaned the algae off the tag revealing a SCDNR tag. I reviewed the instructions online on how to report the catch.
I received a letter with a t-shirt this week.
The letter stated that the fish was caught tagged on December 3, 2002 8 miles offshore of Charleston. It was 35.4 inches long then. It traveled 70 miles to the Broad River where I caught it.
So when you catch a bull red think how old it is and marvel that anything can stay alive that long in the salt!
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