pinfish

Spottail pinfish are exclusive to the western Atlantic ocean.

Along with other members of their family, Spottail pinfish are occasionally eaten and considered by some to be a panfish.

Pinfish rarely school, but can be found near each other, especially along structure which supports barnacles and mollusks.

In this fashion he picked up a couple of blue runners and a large spiny pinfish, which he tossed back.

The pinfish are not generally sought as sport or food in the United States due to its small size and numerous small bones.

When float fishing, popular baits are Spot, Bluefish, or Pinfish.

The pinfish eats shrimp, fish eggs, insect larvae, polychaete worms, amphipods, and plant matter.

Spottail pinfish readily eat several baits such as shrimp (live or artificial), squid, and clams.

The waters contain mojarras, sardines, mullet, pinfish, and snapper.

Nearly everyone recommends using live bait (shrimp, mullet, pigfish, pinfish, goggle-eyes or whatever the regulars use).

The pinfish, Lagodon rhomboides, is a saltwater fish of the Sparidae family, the breams and porgies.

The three most common kinds of fish in the Horr's Island diet, catfish, threadfin herring and pinfish, were caught while immature.

The anterior dorsal fin has 12 rigid, spiny rays capable of superficially puncturing human skin, giving the species its common name, pinfish.

The Spottail pinfish, Diplodus holbrookii, is an ocean-going species of fish in the family Sparidae.

Bean named the Spottail pinfish after John Edwards Holbrook, a zoologist who had died 7 years before.

"The men and boys of the tribe made nets from palm tree webbing to catch mullet, pinfish, pigfish, and catfish.

Besides these attractions, Lignumvitae Key marked the location of our crab trap, a wire cage baited with pinfish and pilchards.

They often form mixed meadows and the animals that feed there include sea urchins, sea turtles, parrotfish, surgeonfish and possibly pinfish.

Spottail pinfish are also known from the northern Gulf of Mexico, but are not known from the West Indies.

The Spottail pinfish was described in 1878 by Tarleton Hoffman Bean, an ichthyologist who worked mainly on the Connecticut coast.

Spottail pinfish are common to shallow waters (only as deep as 28m) near coasts, such as bays and harbors, though only rarely in brackish areas.

Schooling horsehead jacks, ling, solitary grouper, three swordfish cutting through shimmering clouds of pinfish, and a hammerhead shark cruising the outer edge of the schools.

Other fish preyed on with some regularity can include pigfish, pinfish, herring, sheepshead, silversides, mullet, and minnows, and they sometimes eat crustaceans, usually prawns.

The pinfish is prey for alligator gar, longnose gar, ladyfish, spotted sea trout, red drum, southern flounder, pelicans, and bottlenose dolphins.

The pinfish is found in Bermuda and along the United States coast from Massachusetts to Texas, and down along the Mexican Gulf Coast.