Those are JACK's, and we normally throw those back as they aint really worth eating(and those are quite a bit to short).

They make good cut bait for Mangroves though.

I don't have a pic of the silver fish we caught that tasted so good, but they were real fun to catch and were good size, the bite on small pieces of shrimp.....they had torquise squiggly lines on their sides.

ferm, are those hard tails or baby aj's?

rmb, never made the winter trip, but you've inspired me to try & book next year. did you re-book at big pine fish camp for next year?

This is it.

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=...w=1345&bih=521

It was great!!!!!!

Not yet, but plan to in the near future.

They may have been hardtails, because they had very hard sides near the tail.

that photo looks like what we call a" key west pogie".

They look like what we call french grunts up this way. And the jacks look more like amberjack's which spawn down in the keys in the channels that run between the islands. Certain times of the year you can catch some pretty big AJ's off the bridges down there spawning.

Whatever they are, they are good to eat!

Great trip RB, awesome pics. I know ya'll had a good time. By the way I just now saw what Reel said in this post back in October....LOL.

I'm just guessing but I think the two fish in this pic are Blue Runners. :beer: I ate a couple once before I knew what they were. That is actually how my screen name/boat name came into existence way back in the old days.
http://www.johnpsoward.com/Gallery1/...BlueRunner.jpg
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r...r/DSCN1255.jpg

definitely looks like a match to me