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Common Bottle Nose Dolphin
Tursiops truncatus
30.387, -86.5099
Field Notes
Description:
These Dolphins were traveling in pairs and small groups. Dolphins swim in a hump-like fashion, called porpoising if you are a swimmer, rolling up and down breaking the surface. They look different than sharks which swim side to side and break the surface differently.
Habitat:
These were spotted following the tolling lines of the Destin Harbor Charter Fishing Boat fleet. The Common Bottle Nose Dolphins "plagued" our fishing trip by "stealing" our caught fish before we could get them pulled completely out of the water and onto the boat. They would follow the boat as well. We would fish an area until the dolphins showed up, then we'd move for two reasons. 1) We did not want them stealing our fish we caught and 2) We did not want to have to hook a dolphin on accident. We used small hooks, about 1/2 inch, and a 3 oz lead weight. The fishing line was not strong enough to pull up a dolphin, so if we'd have accidentally hooked a dolphin we just would have had to cut the line and let the dolphin swim away with the lead weight and hook in its mouth/stomach.
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