Need help with fish ID...
 

These two ruffians were spotted somewhere in Newport fighting over a mysterious fish.

:musc:

Here is a close-up.

I have no idea what this is...

But it was caught in inshore Rhody waters in September.

Very weird. :confused: :conf: :huh:

looks like an alewife

Eben, I dunno, it has some properties that are akin to the mackerals and tunoids. :confused:

Eben --the Jaw is too big //plus there were small herring being caught ////they didn,t look anything like this //
JOHNR out after dark////

what,s that a Hab,s hat on my @#$%^& head =======didn,t help that night ;)

Clammer must have caught that:laughs:
















isn't it a baby bluefish?

looks like a bluefish to me

Blooooofish????

I concurr

lil blue, would be my guess, then I'd hook it through the eyes and see what else I can identify.

I dunno guys, John, Mike and I looked real hard at it, it didn't look like a little snapper blue. The coloration wasn't what you would expect.

Fishsmith - the guys who caught it were netting bait for a fluke trip the next day. :hihi:

kill it before it chops my eel.

its a scad...member of the jack family i believe...

It's either the smallest snapper blue I've ever seen (didja check for toofahs?) or a baby jack. Goggle-eyed scad, JJ, you might be right.

Blues and jacks are cousins, or so I've heard.

that is a round scad 'cigar minnow aka hardtail great swordfish bait