Spotted Sea Trout Facts

Spotted seatrout can live to over 12 years of age.

Spotted sea trout facts. This happens from late spring to early fall. It has a deep notch in its dorsal fin and a squared tail fin. The spotted sea trout C.

Males dont reach 14 inches long until 3 or 4 years old. Although the sea trouts are similar to the true trouts order Salmoniformes in appearance the two groups are not related. The spotted seatrout has a sleek elongated body that grows to 14 to 20 inches in length and weighs about five pounds.

Nebulosus found along the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coasts of Florida is slightly smaller than the weakfish. 09092016 Untrue to their name spotted seatrout are not really trout. Life starts out for speckled trout inside a tiny egg not much bigger than a grain of sand.

Spotted seatrout average from a couple of pounds up to four or five with 10 pounds as the trophy grail and specimens have been caught that top 17 pounds. Central Florida is especially renowned for larger trout. True trout are members of the family Salmonidae which includes salmon trout and char.

Most large spotted seatrout caught are females and commonly live to be nine or 10 years of age. Spotted seatrout reaches sexual maturity at one to two years. A baby speckled trout eats voraciously doubling and tripling its size in.

Its sides are iridescent. Spotted seatrout are members of the family Sciaenidae sigh-EE-nih-dee which includes redfish croaker and black drum. Anglers long ago recognized that very large trout were usually female and appropriately called them sow.