Steve Schullery Posted October 16, 2018 Report Share Posted October 16, 2018 My brother and I are trying to figure out what those fish were that we caught as kids. We were newcomers to saltwater and to Corpus Christi, TX. I think that's a seatrout on one end and a sheepshead on the other end; can anyone provide likely ID of any of the others? I believe that at the time we were calling some of them croaker and drum. (The year was 1955, 56, or 57. Car is a 55 Nash) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonC Posted October 16, 2018 Report Share Posted October 16, 2018 (edited) Steve, Don’t know about he fish, but that car has to get the weird styling prize for its era! Disclosure-my dad became a Rambler dealer 2 years later. JC Edited October 16, 2018 by JonC __________________Our tradition is that of the first man who sneaked off to the creek when the tribe did not really need fish. Haig-Brown Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7 Rivers Posted October 16, 2018 Report Share Posted October 16, 2018 Hard to tell steve from the pictures Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Schullery Posted October 16, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 16, 2018 another opinion on the stripedy one is black drum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crackers Posted October 16, 2018 Report Share Posted October 16, 2018 looks like the one in the middle is a type of kingfish. Maybe a gulf or southern kingfish, also called whiting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seadogg Posted October 16, 2018 Report Share Posted October 16, 2018 I’m confident enough they’re members of the drum family. Hard to nail down exactly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccb Posted October 16, 2018 Report Share Posted October 16, 2018 Trout on a freshwater stringer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Schullery Posted October 16, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 16, 2018 1 hour ago, ccb said: Trout on a freshwater stringer? It never occurred to us that there was a difference between fresh and salt water tackle. We were thrilled to catch any thing stringer-worthy. I had a metal casting rod, and rinsing your gear hadn't been invented yet, like the word "gear".. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Schullery Posted October 16, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 16, 2018 (edited) 14 hours ago, JonC said: Steve, Don’t know about he fish, but that car has to get the weird styling prize for its era! Disclosure-my dad became a Rambler dealer 2 years later. JC Jon, I knew I sensed more of a shared heritage than just fishing when we met. I believe that 1955 was the last year that Nash featured those enclosed front wheel wells, making tight turns impossible. Although only the Statesman model, this one was somewhat of a sleeper (on the Nash scale) having a two-barrel carburetor on it flat head six. Dad was somewhat of a Nash sustaining patron. He had a '49, '51,'53, '55, and 1957--the last year they used the name badge. Then, he had several Ambassadors, AMC, and Ramblers before they finally gave up the ghost completely. Now, all that's left of it is the acronym for nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, a form of fatty liver, which he may have sustained too. Edited October 16, 2018 by Steve Schullery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandflee Posted October 16, 2018 Report Share Posted October 16, 2018 Kingfish? looks like it very well could be If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it. Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tristate Posted October 16, 2018 Report Share Posted October 16, 2018 I’m surprised no mentioned make out seats. All these Nash experts would know about that. I learned to drive in a 56. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bhorsley Posted October 17, 2018 Report Share Posted October 17, 2018 I bet the striped ones are black drum --I I was thinking kingfish for the others aka sea mullet, whiting. the mouth looks right for the kingfish Brian Horsley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HL Posted October 17, 2018 Report Share Posted October 17, 2018 I don't see any sheepshead there. Look like sea trout Herb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccb Posted October 17, 2018 Report Share Posted October 17, 2018 53 mins ago, HL said: I don't see any sheepshead there. Look like sea trout Herb They look like sea trout. I can't see any stripes in the pictures ? but the tails looked like trout? or maybe Northern Kingfish Drum look a little fatter in the midsection I think anyway? If fishing down south I would say maybe Ladyfish or Whiting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Schullery Posted October 17, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 17, 2018 (edited) 2 hours ago, ccb said: They look like sea trout. I can't see any stripes in the pictures ? but the tails looked like trout? or maybe Northern Kingfish Drum look a little fatter in the midsection I think anyway? If fishing down south I would say maybe Ladyfish or Whiting. HEre's the only other photo from the exciting day. Stripes are more visible in fish #3 and #8 (from left). I do recall that they were not all the same species: a mixed bag. Also, they were caught fishing a piece of shrimp on the bottom. I believe that Corpus Christi, TX qualifies as "down south". I can't tell you what a thrill this was--to fill up a stringer! We had recently moved down from Pennsylvania and my parents couldn't get over how people used shrimp for BAIT!! Dad had taken Paul and me fishing several times in PA but neither he nor Paul had ever caught anything. I had caught one trout and a few bluegills on my new fly rod (aka. "Stevie's dude pole") back in PA and countless bluegills on worms fishing with my batchelor uncle in Buckeye Lake, but this wasa a whole new world (that only lasted two years til we moved again.) Edited October 17, 2018 by Steve Schullery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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