I caught 2 like that today, didnt know what it was either,but it looked just like that pigfish. Both were about the size of a good sized bream. The head is a little more slanted than the snapper,and its lips were fatter like the rolled lip of a ballon.

Punch this :thefinger:

Ladyfish is a poor man's Tarpon.:spineyes:

Caught about a 30 inch ladyfish in the surf today. Just like a small tarpoon.
Great Fight!! Better crab bait!!

100% Pigfish. In Florida it is the best trout bait you could find. But a 16" pigfish isnt too uncommon out in the natural bottom in 50-60ft of water off the panhandle of Florida.

Mangrove Snapper

thats what i said, but i got punched in the nuts !!:cry::eek::rolleyes:

If we are voting, I vote for the piggy perch, definitely a big one, but a piggy all the same.

I seriously cannot believe ya'll are saying this is even remotely a mangrove snapper. Ya'll must have never caught a mangrove.

It's a Panther!!!!!!

and a racist black one!!!!:grinpimp:

http://www.fishing-boating.com/baitprofiles/pigfish.jpg
Pigfish (Orthopristis chrysoptera) are in the grunt family and are another good bait for most bottom fish. Tarpon are also particularly fond of them. I have read that they are a fair-flavored panfish, but I think it’s time to tell you that I am not in the habit of eating my bait - and pigfish are bait on my boat

haha thanks for all the responses. It's a damn PIGFISH!!! next time I will keep it and mount the 16"er!!!

Hell yeah put it next to a bull croaker and you'll be poopin' in tall cotton!!!

Definately a pigfish. Use to catch them all the time in Florida. Great trout bait.

No way its a mangrove I say pigfish also