Bar Jacks: Bright, Bold, and Beautiful

Bar Jacks: Bright, Bold, and Beautiful

Bars of Quicksilver63Red jack, black jack, crevalle, greenback, neverbite, point-nose, runner and skip-jack are only a few of the many names for Caranx Ruber. Bar jack, however, is probably the most well known and the name I shall use for this post. The bar jack is that constantly moving silver fish with a blue line on its back that you often see passing close by during a dive. They are the ocean’s social butterflies, flitting across the coral r…