Saltwater Fish
All of the saltwater species I’ve caught have come from the Gulf of Mexico or bodies of water tidally influenced by the Gulf. There are so many saltwater species out there that it would be pretty pointless to separate them by family, like I did with the freshwater fish, so I divided them between inshore and offshore species, of course most of the inshore species you can catch offshore too. If I caught it inshore, it got labelled as an inshore species. With the exception of the snook, you can catch all of these species in Louisiana or offshore of Louisiana. This list will only grow as I continue to make trips offshore and to Florida. Cobia, tripletail, mackeral, grouper, sharks, pelagics, etc. The list of saltwater species just in the Gulf seems infinite.
Gulf of Mexico inshore species
Bagre marinus – Gafftopsail catfish
Paralichthys lethostigma – Southern flounder
Pogonias cromis – Black drum
Sciaenops ocellatus – Red drum (Redfish)
Archosargus probatocephalus – Sheepshead
Elops saurus – Ladyfish
Cynoscion nebulosus – Spotted seatrout (Speckled trout)
Cynoscion arenarius – Sand sea trout (White trout)
Bairdiella chrysoura – American silver perch
Lutjanus griseus – Gray snapper (Mangrove snapper)
Lagodon rhomboides – Pinfish
Orthopristis chrysoptera – Pigfish
Synodus foetens – Inshore lizardfish
Centropomus undecimalis – Common snook
Lobotes surinamensis – Atlantic tripletail
Caranx hippos – Crevalle Jack
Fundulus grandis – Gulf killifish
Fundulus similis – Longnose killifish
Gulf of Mexico offshore species
Seriola rivoliana – Almaco jack
Seriola dumerili – Greater amberjack
Balistes capriscus – Gray triggerfish
Caranx latus – Horse-eye jack
Coryphaena hippurus – Common dolphinfish
Lutjanus campechanus – Red snapper
Euthynnus alletteratus – Little tunny
Thunnus albacares – Yellowfin tuna