Corvina?

[LSmoot]

Can someone verify if this is a Corvina?

Report: Launched out of Pepper Park (National City) about 6am July 6th. I caught a few Spotted Bay Bass and this fish (Corvina?) within the first 1/2 hour on a 3" white grub. Fishing was real slow after that, so I drifted into the sand for some ghost shrimp. Carolina-rigged the shrimp for another 1.5 hours, but only produced a single Mackerel (I love how those Mackerel fight). Anyway, I had a great time, as usual. I was stoked to catch the fish in the picture, which was 18" and fought hard enough to make my kayak do a 180!

[roadx]

fangs and orange mouth, looks like a corvina to me. nice fish

[Cadillyak]

Nice vina!

[lowprofile]

nice vampire

[WCW Moderator]

Small white seabass will have a ridge (zipper) down the belly and usually broad vertical bars, fangs as stated for the short fin corvina. Sure loos like the latter.

[octico]

Corvina, fanged teeth. I've caught on of those before. Is there a legal size limit?

[LSmoot]

Corvina, fanged teeth. I've caught on of those before. Is there a legal size limit?

I went through the F&G book later that day, and didn't see any minimum on Corvina.

[LSmoot]

Thanks, everyone for your replies. I definitely see what you mean about the fangs and how to tell it from a WSB. I'm kicking myself for throwing it back - would have loved to have fish for dinner, but wasn't 100% sure if it was Corvina or WSB. Oh well.

Thanks!

[blitzburgh]

I went through the F&G book later that day, and didn't see any minimum on Corvina.

No size limit on Corvina. They just fall under the General bag limit of 10.