Thread: Lane snapper?

Fished off the beach Sunday morningcaught a couple of pomps, ladyfish and whiting. Also caught what looked like a lane snapper best I can tell. Is it possible to find them in so close? Wouldn't have met the min. length so I'd have thrown it back either way. Just curious as to what it could have been. Forgot my phone so no pics available.

Congrats on some good catches! :yippee:
I'm curious what area were you fishing?

Young snapper are liable to turn up anywhere this time of year, especially after all the rough water we had last week!
Lane snapper look very similar to juvenile red snapper (BOTH have a black spot near the tail).

Lane snapper notice the horizontal yellow lines)



Juvenile American Red snapper (no yellow lines)


If it wasn't either of those, it likely could have been a mangrove (grey) snapper


hope this helps!

Some species of grunts look a lot like lanes also. If you caught them from the beach that would be my knee jerk guess to what it was.

Definitely not a mangrove, I've caught several of those before off the lights at night. Horizontal stripes match. Don't remember the black spot.

I'll google a pic of grunts.


Location was about half way down Ft. Morgan road.

Yep, pigfish is a distinct possibility Dave.

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Definitely not a mangrove, I've caught several of those before off the lights at night.
[size=12pt]Horizontal stripes match[/size].
Don't remember the black spot.

I'll google a pic of grunts.


Location was about half way down Ft. Morgan road.
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Thanks!
So it wasn't a pinfish?
[img width=350 height=233]http://fishermanscoast.com/images/pinfish.jpg[/img]

Definitely not a pigfish and pretty sure it wasn't a pinfish because of the vertical bars. Closest grunt was a Tomtate. Without a picture who knows???

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Definitely not a pigfish and pretty sure it wasn't a pinfish because of the vertical bars. Closest grunt was a Tomtate. Without a picture who knows???
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What color was it's mouth?

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Definitely not a pigfish and pretty sure it wasn't a pinfish because of the vertical bars. Closest grunt was a Tomtate. Without a picture who knows???
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What color was it's mouth?
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P-N-G, Here's a picture you posted last year that I believe was a mangrove.

[img width=278 height=193]http://i1136.photobucket.com/albums/n481/clatter51/GSSPmangrovesnapper-1.jpg[/img]

THOSE LITTLE MANGROVE WILL DESTROY SOME BULL MINNOWS!TRYING TO CATCH FLOUNDER ONE TIME AND JUST KEPT GETTING SMOOTH MOUTHED!FINALLY CAUGHT A FEW AND IT SURE ENOUGH IT WAS THOSE LITTLE MANGROVES!