Fish Id Anclote power plant

Duckster

Went fishing last week my buddys brother trailered over from lakeland and we met at the power plant. I cast netted some nice pins and we fished the barrels and caught some small mangos and decided to brave the wind and cold and set up on the flat on the outside and fished a pothole. My pinners kept getting tails bite off and thought it was mackerel but finally hooked what i thought was a jack but it wasnt. Ive always heard of pompano biting there but never caught one. I looked up the pic of pompano on my phone but didnt look like a match. What did I catch looks like a jack but had small sharp teeth. Sorry didnt take any pics. Guessing I threw back big pompano's

Lostconch

Sounds like bluefish

jdl1948

Agree

bluewatermafia

Def wasn’t Pompano. They gots no teef.
Another vote for bluefish


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Westwall01

Slippery ****

CountryBumpkin

As others said.....this time of year especially.......probably bluefish.......if that don't match then look at blue runner.....it falls in that description and has a tail more like a jack.

OverslotsOnly

Shaped like a jack, but small sharp teeth...an oceanic piranha?


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Kokosing Lover

Couple of options. Bluefish is certainly a possibility if not a likelihood. Other option would be a large leatherjacket. They are in the jack family and do have teeth.

clarosa

I used to get into the power plant and fish the outflow and the whole top layer of that bay is thousands and thousands of Bluefish, Ladyfish and jacks. Most likely a bluefish in my opinion being they are all over the place over there.

Gypsies Call

Did it look like this?

https://www.chesapeakebay.net/S=0/fieldguide/critter/bluefish

Duckster

Kokosing Lover wrote: »

Couple of options. Bluefish is certainly a possibility if not a likelihood. Other option would be a large leatherjacket. They are in the jack family and do have teeth.

It wasnt a blue fish sounds like this leatherjacket it had a segmented tail section

Looks like a trevally

Jack Hexter

THe fish you are holding is a Jack Crevalle.

Duckster

Ive caught hundreds of jacks throughout fl but have never caught the species of Jack I did that day. That pic is one I found on the net that best describes what we caught it had weird tail section and the black dots on the gill plates were black slivers not circles

Kokosing Lover

Now we're getting confused. Leatherjackets don't have the lateral keel (what you call segmented tail) that most of the other jacks have. I think what most of us were keying in on was the "small, sharp teeth" that you first described. Almost all of the fish put forth as candidates have teeth to some degree, so we need a better description. Were the teeth regular in size and shape, or were there different shaped teeth, unevenly spaced throughout the mouth? Were the teeth shaped more like triangular blades (such as bluefish or mackerel), or were they more cone-shaped or pin like? Straight or curved inwards?

If it had a true bony segmented lateral keel (actually a series of highly modified scales), then this pretty much locks it down to a jack crevalle (very much like the trevally pictured) or a blue runner for our area. The size and shape of gill plate markings (the black dots) vary widely even within the same species and are common to a great many varieties of fish.

CountryBumpkin

So following this thread where the OP told us he caught something that looked like a jack but positively wasn't...........has led me to the following conclusions.

1. Fish was most likely a jack crevalle, blue runner, look down, yellow jack, or african pompano.

2. Duckster don't know jack. :wink :rotflmao

Angler719

Horse eye jack, Almaco jack, Bar jack, yellow jack

Without pictures its just a guess.

Duckster

CountryBumpkin wrote: »

So following this thread where the OP told us he caught something that looked like a jack but positively wasn't...........has led me to the following conclusions.

1. Fish was most likely a jack crevalle, blue runner, look down, yellow jack, or african pompano.

2. Duckster don't know jack. :wink :rotflmao

This one hahaha
Guess the teeth really threw me off small sharp angular teeth. Wasnt any jack ive caught before which i why I was hoping pompano so I could take home dinner but threw em back.
Sad part of the day buddys brother found a baby dead sea turtle caught up in heavy line and drowned. he untangled the turtle and brought in most of the line he could it was buried in the bottom pretty good.