{"id":15686,"date":"2021-02-17T02:15:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T02:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/?p=15686"},"modified":"2024-03-05T16:09:36","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T21:09:36","slug":"news-2021-02-17-state-record-tautog-caught","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/news-2021-02-17-state-record-tautog-caught\/","title":{"rendered":"State Record Tautog Caught"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>New Jersey Fish and Wildlife is pleased to announce a new record saltwater fish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chris Sullivan of Forked River reeled in a new state record Tautog on December 20, 2020. The fish weighed in at 25 lbs., 13 oz. eclipsing&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.gov\/dep\/fgw\/news\/2015\/rectautog15.htm\">the previous record<\/a>, set in 2015, by 7.08 oz. The fish measured 32 inches in length and had a 27-inch girth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chris was fishing 20 miles off the Cape May coast in the Atlantic Ocean when he landed the fish. Chris was out on the boat Fishin&#8217; Fever which is captained by Tom Daffin. Chris was using a Century Pro Togger rod with a Daiwa Saltiga reel and 65 pound braided test when the fish hit. White leggers served as the bait.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information on the Record Fish Program, visit&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.gov\/dep\/fgw\/recfish.htm\">www.njfishandwildlife.com\/recfish.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Jersey Fish and Wildlife is pleased to announce a new record saltwater fish. Chris Sullivan of Forked River reeled in a new state record Tautog on December 20, 2020. The fish weighed in at 25 lbs., 13 oz. eclipsing&nbsp;the previous record, set in 2015, by 7.08 oz. The fish measured 32 inches in length [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fishing","category-saltwater-recreational"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}