Sea bream

Average is 8-12 inches; maximum about 14 inches

Golden Pinfish, Golden Shiner, Chopa Amarilla, Salema

Likes rockier bottom than the Pinfish. Common around jetties, and around rocky areas of surf and shorelines. Commonly found over mud bottoms in mangrove sloughs and on vegetated sand bottoms, sometimes in brackish water and occasionally also in coral reef areas near mangroves. Feeds on benthic invertebrates (small bivalves, crustaceans), as well as on plant material.

Silvery color with numerous yellow stripes that give it a golden sheen. Deeper bodies than the Pinfish, and usually larger. Dorsal spines (total): 13; Dorsal soft rays (total): 10-11; Anal spines: 3; Anal soft rays: 10 - 11. Large intestine makes up 90% of digestive tract and is twice the standard length, on the average; the stomach with 7 digestive caeca attached near the pyloric region. Pelvic fin coloration totally or partially dark in males; orange colored in females. Large dark spot (about same size as eye) below lateral line just behind gill opening

Summary of Distribution: Western Atlantic: New Jersey, USA and northeastern Gulf of Mexico to Argentina (Ref. 4517). Absent from the Bahamas
Note: Distribution range colors indicate degree of suitability of habitat which can be interpreted as probabilities of occurrence (fishbase.org)

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Light spinning and baitcasting outfits. Live or dead shrimp and cut fish or squid