Caught a few of these guys today . Mangrove snapper apparently. Apparently they like cut pin fish on the bottom



Got some sharp lil chompers on em

He has crazy eyes too

Nice job!

He’s mad at ya Wolfie! Neat fish

Well him and his buddies are sitting in a Ziploc bag so

I caught a lot of those in a stream behind my uncle's beach house in Myrtle Beach. They were good to eat. Are you going to cook them up?

Keith

Well cap is , he's crazy about flounder and snapper apparently blackened they're amazing eating..know her about ran down stairs after I told him to poke his head out the wheelhouse and showed him ... I don't know much about these things so didn't know if it was big enough or what ....
Now if I can catch one of these fancy redfish

That's cool !

Not my fault they took me off my meds

I have heard blackened snapper is good, but have never had it. I think you will like it. Most of the snapper I caught were fairly small. My mom fried some and baked some. They were good both ways.

The same stream had lots of clams and blue crabs, that I caught and ate too. There may be some in the same area you are.

There were lots of needlefish too. I could get them to bite and stay on for a little bit, but could never land one. They were thin, long and almost transparent. Their mouths were full of teeth.

I seined killfish and used them as bait. It's been over 34 years ago.

Keith

Funny you mention needle fish . At least two always show up when we turn the deck lights on and your right never able to actually land the little guys

I wonder if you could catch the needlefish with frayed rope, like people do gar?

I'm hoping to catch some of the species I never caught before. I started fishing Big Darby Creek, which has 85 species of fish. It has the most endangered species of any river in Ohio. I fished it yesterday for the first time and found a decent spot, I'm going back to.

Keith

Now we need to see cooking pictures……

What kind of work is that? All you do is fish and have fish fries.

I had to look up needlefish. Turns out, there's several accounts of folks having been severely injured or even killed by being impaled .

If they're the same thing we called billed eels, (not an eel) they smell funny....

Around here we have blackened drum, it's a close cousin to the red fish, and is excellent table fare.