Took my daughter out to goof off for a couple hours just after low tide was turning. She is learning to throw the cast net and drive the boat a little. I am too, come to think of it. Was hoping to get a few FM but nada. Caught a few decent bait shrimp and a pinfish. Not a ton of bait around, but looked like a lot of tiny shrimp along the grass, didn’t bother throwing the 1/4 to see.
We decided to fish the few shrimp we had, and she caught this
Rock sea bass?
We didn’t land anything else, and quickly ran out of shrimp. Cut pinfish nothing. Threw some gulp shrimp and DOA for a few minutes but then had to get home. Not much action but we are learning and had fun.
If You look at the fins on the Bank and Rock Bass the longer fins and less color around mouth/gill as well as spot on dorsal are all key to identifying the difference between the two and based on the fins in pic and location of catch I would bet it is a rock bass. You will catch them a lot more often then the Bank bass especially inshore because of the habits of the Bank bass make them less likely to catch unless your a few miles off. Excellent fish to eat one of my favorites even though they are small.
40inred could be right as well, just hard to say from the pic. The spot on the dorsal is a dead give away! Fins are hard to go by because they get worn off sometimes.
