[kmizelle]

Terrible pic but it's shaped like a Spanish but has marking like a bonito. Help me out caught two back to back.

 

[ice cream man]

Ladyfish, maybe???

 

[HotSoup]

Looks like a small King to me....Spanish has a black dorsal fin.

 

[kmizelle]

Nope not a lady fish. I know it wasn't a Spanish and almost sure it wasn't a king. It was more round unlike a king or Spanish which are more slender. the markings on it started about 3/4 the way up the sides and on top of the back. the only thing we could come up with was maybe small bonito. looking back at the pic I don't think that's right either.

 

[trigger22]

Bullet Mackerel? Do you happen to have any other pictures as that one is tough to tell.

 

[Scott Hobbs]

Some type of mackerel, hard to tell with one pic. For fish ID its best to have several pics from different angles, helps to pinpoint the ID.

 

[kmizelle]

No that's the only pic I had a chance to get. They were mixed in with the Spanish.

 

[Scott Hobbs]

I'm just seeing the small diamond shaped plates coming out of the top and bottom half, mackerel type markings.

 

[Brenardo]

Uhh maybe Boston Mackerel?

 

[kmizelle]

I believe someone on another site got it. It looks to be a round scad.

 

[trigger22]

Looking at your picture and google images it is not a round scad.

 

[kmizelle]

ok I looked up both and it may be boston mackerel the markings are right on those.

 

[speckhunter80]

Boston Mackeral

 

[FishinCary]

I asked some guys on the pier who know their stuff. they said "looks like but isn't a boston mackerel. No stripes.". I don't have any clue.

sent it to a charter captain. He says he's 99% sure it's a full grown cigar minnow a.k.a round scad.

 

[sundrop]

Looks like awesome Grouper bait to me!

 

[Brenardo]

Is it ethical for a cigar minnow to be running with Spanish Macks?

 

[FishinCary]

Well usually the eating follow the eaten.... So id say the Spanish would be the ones doing the following.
The guy I asked knows his stuff, if he says cigar minnow Id go with that

 

[catmaster]

I still say lady fish....
great cut bait...Drum love um.
Upon further review...It is a Lady fish...AKA..."Poor Man's Tarpon"...

 

[brickphil]

I can't make out the head, but from what I can make out, it does appear to be a cigar minnow.....cigar fish!!

But I swear the mouth does not look like one. But again the, what I call tuna fins, are very visible on the back.

 

[dzurlo]

This is a boston mackerel... note the multiple finlets going to the caudal peduncle

This is a round scad... note just the one finlet on the caudal peduncle

OP's fish is almost definitely a mackerel of some sort because of the several finlets