Mike's Big Trout

Mike followed up his heartbreaking loss with this fine specimen

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• Baffin
• Trout

[walleyepoesjes]

what kind of trout is it?.. I just see dorsal fins (2), but no fatfin ?

[CaptBlack15]

Spotted seatrout or specled trout. We are in south Texas

[cwjones0322]

It's a spotted seatrout, aka speckled trout, cynoscian nebulosis, common on the gulf of mexico and southern atlantic coasts, they grow to be about 12-15 pounds tops and are very fun to catch and very good to eat. No relation to northern trout like rainbows or lakers, but they're actually related to red and black drum found in the same areas, and also the white sea bass of california. does that help?

[42anhmai]

South Padre Island, Port Mansfield, or Boca Chica Beach?

[logang15]

@walleyepoesjes

its in the gulf spec trout,

[rickyjames2003]

we get them here too on the texas louisiana border

[nref55]

for those of you who didn't know, the speckle trout is actually one of the members of the drum species. its not an actual "trout" like fresh water fish, they just grew the same adaptations through evolution :)

[GreenTea4101]

@ItsBrainLock ...suckerfish dont live in salt water u sucker.. thats salt water and its a speckled sea trout

[ItsBrainLock]

thats a suckerfish..

[patrick35726]

best place to catch trout is in the back rivers of south georgia.

[49sustain]

bigest spec i ve ever seen!! Great local, birds and all, no crowds, a good buddy!! Congrats!! Come visit cc-outfitters dot c

[zaigar11]

That's a speckle trout to confirm. Saltwater, I'm sure it came from South Texas.