Fish ID Help?

[SharkFighter]

Can Anyone help me with what this fish is? Caught it surf fishing by a jetty near the Tybee Island GA Lighthouse. Was using shrimp for bait. Outgoing tide maybe two hours before low tide. Fish was about 8 inches long. Let it go and watched it swim off after photo.

During the beach trip action was a bit slow with me catching two whitting, a yellowtail (silver perch), and this fish which is a grunt or snapper of sorts.

Of course since I returned recently from Iraq the water and "scenery" on the beach was great!! God Bless America and American woman!

I am also attaching (if i can work the attachment right) a shark i caught a few days before the beach trip from my boat.

[babalaza]

hmm which hook is this?

looks like a long shank circle? point is too curved in for a normal J, or not?

[hotshot1]

big ole pig fish

[SharkFighter]

I use circle hooks ALMOST exclusively. That particular one I think was a 2/0.

I have a few Shark rigs with J hooks but other then that and even for most of my shark fishing I now prefer circles.

Light rod, spinning reel 45 lbs braid, swivel about 4 ft of 15lbs florocarbon leader.

I think the small fish made the hook look bigger then it was.

Thanks for the help with the ID I think pigfish/grunt it is.


Rob