Fish ID?
 

So what is this little guy? Could it be a Jack Crevale? My nephew has caught several in the cast net in the back of the Manasquan river.

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Def looks jack-ish...

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Take your thumb off of it and get closer next photo ! ;)

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Looks like a juvenile Jack Crevalle.

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I say Jack Crevalle, they have that spot behind the eye.

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Your thumb looks to be covering the spot that they don't lose... I say jack crevalle ...

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I caught one about 8" in Port Monmouth in my cast net two weeks ago.

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That's a jack, they will hit small sabiki rigs too. I've livedlined them several times and have caught some solid fluke and a 50ish pound brown shark on a party boat fluking a few years back.

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Thanks guys, I wish I had a better picture but I wasn't with him when he took it... I didn't think they were up this far north.

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We have been cast netting them for several years at the top of the Manasquan. I thought they may be juvenile pompano, as my friend also caught an 8# just the same in the river, and the adult looks like a pompano. We are also netting another southern species that swims with the peanuts and mullets. This one has black and white vertical stripes, with hump on head and an inferior mouth like a king fish. They are approx. 3-6inches now. I'm thinking sheepshead.