17 inch trout caught on electric chicken. Folly Beach boat landing
Nice weakfish!
I believe you caught yourself a Weakfish, not a seatrout.
Rad Dad beat me to it. Good eating fish right there
Big Weakfish!
They are pretty fish and often mistaken for trout. Nice catch.
Strangely though, although they look just like a trout, they are a little different to clean than a trout. Bigger ribcage?
2000 SeaPro 180CC w/ Yammy 115 2 stroke
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Another crucial difference- limit of one per person.
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Looks a lot more like a sand trout than a weak fish to me…
Mayhem
Pioneer 197
"The weakfish, Cynoscion regalis (Bloch and Schneider 1801), is a member of the Sciaenidae, or drum, family. Diagnostic characters include a rather large mouth with a pair of large canine teeth in the upper jaw, a silvery body with dark speckles along the dorsal surface, and yellowish pelvic and anal fins. In South Carolina, the weakfish is found predominantly in estuaries as juveniles and in shallow coastal waters as adults. The species may be confused with the closely related spotted seatrout (C. nebulosus), silver seatrout (C. nothus), and sand seatrout (C. arenarius). Weakfish can be clearly differentiated by the presence of only one marginal pore on the snout, while the three other species have two pores. However, hyridization between species may sometime occur (Tringali et al. 2011). http://www.dnr.sc.gov/swap/supplemental/marine/weakfish2015.pdf
“Research in biochemistry suggests that the sand seatrout may actually be a subspecies of the weakfish that lacks spots” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynoscion_arenarius
one marginal pore: 12" and one fish/person/day
two marginal pores: total anarchy
It is a weakfish and is commonly referred to as a sea trout along the east coast states. The one we all know and love is called a spotted or speckled sea trout. They both are of the same Genus but different species.
Opposed to some posts above neither are really a “trout”, but are of the drum family as shown above.
gray trout, summer trout, squeteague up north
whiting aren’t real whiting (they just look like cod, and are called sea mullet elsewhere, even though they’re not real mullet either), channel bass aren’t real bass (largemouths are in the bream family, sea bass family includes groupers), but it doesn’t help much to just call them all croakers/drum either. Heck, there’s a giant Cynoscion species on the west coast that’s called a white sea bass.
image source http://bajasecond.bajacom.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/White-sea-bass-1.jpg
Right now, Optiker is wondering what the T.E. would look like hanging out of THAT mouth.
Holy chit!
2000 SeaPro 180CC w/ Yammy 115 2 stroke
1966 13’ Boston Whaler w/ Merc 25 4 stroke “Flatty”
www.ralphphillipsinshore.com
23, can you photoshop a TE in that things mouth? 
2000 SeaPro 180CC w/ Yammy 115 2 stroke
1966 13’ Boston Whaler w/ Merc 25 4 stroke “Flatty”
www.ralphphillipsinshore.com
Hey Ralph! I used to do your Pest Control LOL Thats my Weakfish :-P. Im with another company now but how are u man?
use to call those winter trout. and specs summer trout