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Oil Field Trash II
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 Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2018 7:38 pm Post subject: sword spine snook |
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a buddy of mine caught what I beliee to be a sword spine snook... is this the same species as the mexican snook? when he showed me a photo of it, the anal fin was obviously different from snook that I've caught and seen. I couldn't find anything after spending a solid 4 minutes on the google about sword spines in texas though.
thought? feel free to move about the room and discuss |
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KlebergCaster
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| Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2018 8:10 pm Post subject: |
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| Feel free to show us a photo of it. |
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smfiredog
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Central Scrutinizer
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| Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2018 5:26 am Post subject: |
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The two aren't the same species (Mexican and Swordspine), although they are pretty easy to distinguish. Swordspines are the smallest of all the snooks (just over a foot or so, max) and the anal fin goes past the base of the dorsal fin. Big scales too, on the Swordspine.
A picture would help out, as well as the general location that it was caught. |
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Oil Field Trash II
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| Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2018 5:48 am Post subject: |
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| Central Scrutinizer wrote: | The two aren't the same species (Mexican and Swordspine), although they are pretty easy to distinguish. Swordspines are the smallest of all the snooks (just over a foot or so, max) and the anal fin goes past the base of the dorsal fin. Big scales too, on the Swordspine.
A picture would help out, as well as the general location that it was caught. |
And deal with the potlickers???? Not today!
It was caught in the river. Between the spillway and nueces bay. I cant seem to get photos to post after photobucket cracked the whip on free posting. I just posted a pic of it to Tyler |
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Rebecca of Sunnybrookfarm
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| Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2018 7:49 am Post subject: |
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highly unlikely....probably a fat snook...
becky
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Central Scrutinizer
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| Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2018 7:49 am Post subject: |
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| Oil Field Trash II wrote: | | And deal with the potlickers???? Not today |
That's why I put 'general location'... Unnamed Jetties, offshore, nondescript bay, river (like you mentioned - and that fits for that species). 
Becky is right about the 'highly unlikely', but I've gone way past the point of saying "NO WAY" to any catch that I hear about - See my Mola mola story from Nighthawk way back when!!!
Have got an occasional fat snook from trawls in that very same area over the years. |
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Rebecca of Sunnybrookfarm
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| Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2018 8:59 am Post subject: |
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yeah, while it does have a long anal fin, it doesn't quite get past the base of the caudal as C.S. mentioned...plus it appears that the mouth extends to the middle of the eye, making it a fat snook....
some hybridization might occur, but genetic studies (like the one I helped with a few years ago) show that snook species are still distinct, even between east and west of the Mississippi....
becky
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| ziacatcher wrote: | | However I bet if you were fishing naked Ranger Rick would have a problem with that |
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