I used to "net" mullet and I don't think they were like this. The mullet was a bit more "trout-like" if I remember correctly. But they, the mullet, made great smoked fish!!!
Ed, yes, I think we're right on this, but the color version would help,
Looks like a white or blue grunt to me, it happens to be my favorite salt water pan fish, it's better than snapper in my book. The scales are very hard on this fish but I fry them up head and all. I used to drive from Miami to the 7 mile bridge in the Fl. keys and years ago they were much larger than what you catch these days. Looking at it closely it's a white grunt.
i'm going to stick with snapper could be a grey or mangrove ??
the reason i'm staying with snapper is the teeth in Dean's photo, i don't remember teeth like that on a tilapia.
No, not mangrove snapper, the dorsal fin on Dean's fish is almost right on top of the head and snapper, starts way on the back, And yes, tilapia have teeth,
what would change is the accuracy of my keywords and descriptions. Thanks for the leads guys, I will compare your suggestions against google images later. Yes, they do have teeth.
Sorry for not following up sooner but I've been away from my computer. Tilapia does look like a very likely match. Thanks to everyone for adding their input. Anyone else wants to add something before I label it tilapia?
