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DDOutdoors · Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2012 8:09 am Post subject: Type Snapper?

Went out from Tarpon Springs yesterday evening for a couple of hours and caught 2 reds just at the lower slot limit. One was probably 20" but had to really squeeze the tale to get there! Threw him back just in case. The other one was 19". Bunch of rat reds and dink trout and the mandatory bag of skip jack.

This was the first fish I caught:

Wasn't sure what kind of snapper it was, so snapped a pic. Best I can tell with the black dot, it is a Lane Snapper, but thought I would throw it up here for opinion.

Central Scrutinizer · Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2012 8:19 am Post subject:

It's a dog snapper Laughing

(that's what the deckhands on headboats call all snapper that are not either red snapper or beeliners).

It is really a mutton snapper - Lutjanus analis

The blue bar under the eye and the reddish tint to the fins are a dead give-away. The stripes are too, but schoolmaster also have vertical stripes (lane snapper have horizontal stripes), although the fins on a schoolmaster are typically more yellow/orange. Another difference is schoolmaster have a rounded anal fin, where mutton snapper have a pointed one.

Nice fish.

DDOutdoors · Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2012 9:56 am Post subject:

Thanks! The vertical lines were what was making me unsure, but the A&M (whoop go Aggies) did not thave the Mutton on it. Been gone from the coast for 30 years. Don't remember catching this variety of fish in the bays before. It is great!

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landlocked beachbum · Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2012 8:00 pm Post subject:

Yeah, you can't miss the dot! Cool

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