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• Flash Posts: 12,656 AG

  December 2015 #2

  Looks like a silver perch. Hits like a freight train. Believe it or not, fillet up a baker's dozen and blacken them. Right tasty actually.

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• Goonfanatic Posts: 111 Deckhand

  December 2015 #3

  Awesome! Thanks for your input Flash!

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• Flash Posts: 12,656 AG

  December 2015 #4

  Goonfanatic wrote: »

  Awesome! Thanks for your input Flash!

  
  We catch them in the rivers here in the Big Bend. They will tear up a jig and grub combo.

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• guitarman Posts: 269 Deckhand

  December 2015 #5

  Local name is sugar trout.

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• Flash Posts: 12,656 AG

  December 2015 #6

  guitarman wrote: »

  Local name is sugar trout.

  
  We call them Butter fish.

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• saltybum Posts: 1,700 Captain

  December 2015 #7

  Best dang bait for snook or gator trout too.

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• kingralph Posts: 35 Greenhorn

  December 2015 #8

  Tarpon used to love them in Naples growing up...

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• gettinwet Posts: 1,366 Officer

  December 2015 #9

  Yep, those are silver perch aka sugar trout. I purposefully target them using chicken or sabiki rigs with very small gold hooks tipped with shrimp to use for bull red bait (as well as snook/gator trout). They seem to be the last bait fish around once the pinfish disappear after a couple of good cold fronts. Though they are too soft to hook in the body - so I hook them through the nose. I've never ate them before because the biggest one I've ever seen was maybe 10in long - but I bet they would make a good stew.

  There are only so many casts in life, so shut up and fish!!

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• gatorhook Posts: 664 Officer

  December 2015 #10

  Silver Perch, the net boats pick them up as bycatch along the beaches when trawling for shrimp all the time. Some days I've seen football fields of them floating behind them. They love squid tipped sabikis around structure in the sandy bottoms. Watch out for their razor sharp gillplate! They are great offshore bait if you can keep them alive.

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