different lingo

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Originally Posted by MathGeek

The white seatrout and the sand seatrout are the same species, Cynoscion arenarius.

The silver seatrout is a different species, Cynoscion nothus, but often difficult to distinguish from the sand seatrout.

Some references:

http://procs.gcfi.org/pdf/gcfi_53-53.pdf

http://research.myfwc.com/engine/dow...pe=publication

http://www.nwrc.usgs.gov/wdb/pub/spe.../82_11-072.pdf

Growing up in LC, we called them all sand trout, but now we call them bait.

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