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Mingo
 
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| Nice quality fish. Looks like a good day.... Sand Perch...first fish. Not sure what the "official" name is...
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Ruby Red Lip
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squirrel fish - best grouper and AJ bait on the planet - seriously!
Just Hunt & Fish - No Worries (except all that other stuff)
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Pin Fish
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Sorry to disagree, but it's a bank sea bass. Centropristis ocyurus
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Trigger
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| Most all people around here call them squirrel fish.
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| Squirrel fish.... 
Copy and pasted..... 
Sand perch or squirrelfish (Diplectrum formosum), are excellent grouper bait. They also taste good, but their small size makes cleaning them too much trouble for me. They are a very pretty fish, with electric blue cheek lines and orange and blue sides. They also have a large mouth and very sharp gill plates - so be careful when handling them. They can be caught on almost any sandy bottom and frequently on rocky bottom as well. You can usually just stop your boat and drop baits overboard and be into squirrelfish - but if you haven't caught one in the first few minutes, move on to another spot. When bottom fishing squirrelfish for grouper, just hook them through the back in front of the dorsal fin and lower them to the bottom. Then hold on tight, because grouper love to eat them. Sand perch are also good bait when filleted and used as chunks
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Ruby Red Lip
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Not to be argumentative, but that is a bank sea bass in the first pic, not a sand perch.
On a side note, sand perch are called squirrelfish in the panhandle, but they are actually the smallest grouper. Note the difference in the tail.
True Squirrelfish are rare this far north typically, which avoids confusion in this area. If you say squirrelfish in south florida, they are thinking of this:
Nice trigs and a sweet gray snapper by the way.
vaya con el Dios que habla y el mar es tranquilo
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Snapper
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| Some pretty triggerfish and black snapper. I have been enjoying your posts and wondering about your screen name. Mike Veach used to have a Grady named the fifty-fifty. Is this his old boat? We limited out yesterday on black snapper but I don't have a clue where to find a triggerfish.
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