I’ve been salt water fishing for ten years and it occurred to me just now after reading about rainbow and brook trout habits. Speckle trout have very similar habits to their freshwater counterparts. I don’t know the entomology of speckle trout but I am sure it is because of how similar their habits are. Reading freshwater streams (how to find rainbow trout) is like a tutorial on speckle behavior. Let the ridicule/laughing begin…
You are correct.
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Actually it would be Ichthyology.
Speckled Seatrout-Cynoscion nebulosus, still just another drum. But I guess they do kinda act like trout… sometimes?
Sorry, not laughing, just really bored, This weather is killin’ me.
Maybe he meant etymology, the origin of the name “specked trout”. But I have wondered why it is in the same family as the drum.
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Ahh etymology. Maybe because they look kinda like trout? Who knows what they were thinking back in the 1830’s. Specks are definitely drum though. Family; Sciaenidae. Same family as Many hardheads, Croakers, Spot, Whiting, Weakfish, Black drum and YES Red Drum plus many more. Male Specks do drum. Heard it many times.
Yes, my last trout was drumming. Good to know it was male
There are many similarities between fresh and saltwater fish. Cover, schooling within cover and suspended and eat with little effort.
next time you catch a mess of specks, notice that the ones croaking will uniformly be a few inches shorter than the ones that don’t. the girls grow quicker- same age, different sizes.
Will do barbawang. First step, catch a mess.