Yellowfin Tuna (Thunnus albacares) reach a maximum size of 450 pounds. Yellowfin have football shaped bodies, dark blue or black above with yellow on the sides and fins tinged in yellow with the finlets yellow. Yellowfin occur in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Yellowfin Tuna are schooling fish and are the most important commercially of … Read more
Seminole Killifish (Fundulus seminolis) are a minnow found in Florida from Lake Okeechobee on north almost to Georgia but also absent from the western part of the state. They can be found in lakes and the quiet pools of streams. Coloration is variable going from mostly pale, to speckled like in this photo to occasionally … Read more
The Southern Smooth Puffer is found Northeast Florida and northern Gulf of Mexico, the Bahamas and Mexico and Lesser Antilles. They are found in bays, estuaries and protected coastal waters. Southern Smooth Puffers are solitary and they feed primarily on shellfish but wont turn down fish if they can manage to catch one. Like other … Read more
Yellow Margin Moray Eel (Gymnothorax flavimarginatus) are one of the most aggressive eel species. Yellow Margin Moray eels range from the Red Sea and South Africa east all the way through the indian and Pacific Oceans to Costa Rica and Panama and the Galapagos Islands.
Rio Grande Perch also known as the ‘Texas Cichlid’ are fairly easy to identify because they have turquoise colored spots on a very dark to light olive and can look very similiar to convict cichlids. Some of the younger or lighter specimens will have five dark bars. Rio Grande Perch have dorsal and anal fins … Read more
The shadow bass (Ambloplites ariommus) is a rarely caught sunfish. They are native to Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Georgia but or now where very common. Like most sunfish the Shadow Bass is small usually well under a pound in size. They inhabit stream and river with good amounts of vegetation.
Black Drum (Pogonias cromis) reach a maximum size of just over 100 pounds but the “bulls” usually range in the 25 to 40 pound range. They have deep bodies with 4 or 5 broad black bars on there sides. They look very similiar to sheephead but get much larger. They also have barbel around the … Read more
The reported range of the Taiwan tai is from Japan to southeast Asia and eastern Indian Ocean but this speciman and others like it occasionally show up in Australian waters. The Taiwan tai inhabits sandy and muddy bottoms and is an important food fish.
Todd Quirk caught while fishing a lizard at Mexico’s Lake Espanola. This largemouth bass weighed 9.9 pounds.
Picture of a Royal Dottyback. Colorul little fish that is half purple and half yellow.