UTERSouth Atlantic fish species: all 7
7 species — inshore, surf, reef, offshore, sharks, fresh water, and the bait. What each one is, what it eats, how to fish it, the live bait for it, what it's worth in the book, and the rule — with the date the rule was checked.
The points scale
rarity and size; bait scores nothingA catch scores the fish's base points times how many, up to double again for a trophy-size fish photographed on a ruler, plus ten for a photo and fifty for the first of a species in your book.
Inshore
2 fish
Atlantic cutlassfish (ribbonfish)
A silver ribbon of teeth that swarms the piers, jetties and lighted platforms from Texas to the Carolinas in late summer.
Summer flounder (fluke)
The fluke: the Northeast's flatfish, ambushing bait on the sand from Virginia to Cape Cod all summer.
Reef & bottom
2 fish
Red porgy (pinkie)
The pink, blue-flecked porgy of the Carolina and Georgia offshore ledges — a 'pinkie' or 'silver snapper' that comes up with the beeliners and the grunts.
Tautog (blackfish)
The blackfish: a thick, rubber-lipped wrasse living in the rocks and wrecks from Virginia to Cape Cod, crushing crabs with a mouth full of teeth.
