I caught several little fish but with no experience I had no idea what I was catching. I can identify reds and specs and pompano but is there an app or something that helps identify fish?
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I caught several little fish but with no experience I had no idea what I was catching. I can identify reds and specs and pompano but is there an app or something that helps identify fish?
Possibly, the best strategy is to just work from a list of fish that can be found in the surf and do a google-search of them. Here are several species of fish found in the Alabama surf. I'm sure there are some that I haven't mentioned (other than redfish, pompano, and speckled trout, since you already know what they look like). But it's a start!
Black Drum
Bluefish
Flounder
Hardtail
Hardhead Catfish
Jack Crevalle
Ladyfish
Lizardfish
Lookdown
Pigfish
Pinfish
Remora
Sailcat
Sheepshead
White trout
Whiting (Generic description of Northern, Southern, and Gulf Kingfish)
Spadefish
Spanish Mackerel
The Alabama Tide calendar has commonly caught fish on pages 14 and 15.
https://www.outdooralabama.com/sites...s-Calendar.pdf
Here's a more exhaustive one, but you have to browse through pictures if you don't have a guess at the name.
Florida Saltwater Fishes
List of Marine Fishes of Texas
Also fishbase which is encyclopedic, but actual pictures which is not always good.
Search FishBase
And Texas Saltwater, also encyclopedic, but with descriptions
http://texasseagrant.org/assets/uplo...s_of_Texas.pdf
A basic description would go a long way in helping discover what species it was.
Most common "little fish" in the surf this time of year are "whiting" (gulf kingfish), blue runner ("hardtail"), pinfish, catfish, Atlantic bumper maybe...