Boating & Outdoor Photos - What is this Fish I caught in Narragansett Bay?

So I have been fishing in Narragansett Bay for over 30 years now. I have never caught one of these. First thought was that it was a redfish or a reddrum (a small one), but I don't see the spot on the tail for a redfish and reddrum seems more like something that could be in the bay, even though I have never heard of them being caught. Any ideas?


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sea mullet

Thanks, that looks like what it is.

Northern Kingfish. Very common in the Great south Bay here on L.I.

Looks like a good striper bait

Also known as Roundhead in the Mid-Atlantic and Whiting to us southern folk. Call it what you will they eat great by any name.

Also known as Roundhead in the Mid-Atlantic and Whiting to us southern folk. Call it what you will they eat great by any name.

Yep...whiting. :thumbsup:

Goes by a lot of different names but that is a Northern Kingfish

There are different kinds of kingfish and the further south you go they stop being called kingfish and start being called Virginia Mullet or Sea Mullet and even Whiting

In the gulf they have little "feelers" around the mouth. Good eats.

I call that a channel mullet. Real good eats.

Yup, Northern Kingfish, otherwise known as a Whiting.

Very good eating!!

We catch lots of those in Gulf along the beach.

ground mullet around here. but yes that is a northern kingfish, down on the bottom coast we have southern kingfish (aka ground mullet)