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Pigfish (Orthopristis chrysoptera)
Other Names Piggy, Piggy Perch, Grunt Description Pigfish are characterized by irregular barring on the cheeks, a mottled appearance, or indistinct, irregular vertical bars.
Pigfish
Pigfish may refer to:
Fishes in the family Congiopodidae.
Redmouth grunt, Orthopristis chrysoptera.
Corocoro grunt, Orthopristis ruber.
Golden-spot hogfish, Bodianus perditio.
Red pigfish, Bodianus unimaculatus.
Red Pigfish (Bodianus unimaculatus)
Turn away from the rock wall and face off a wall of predatory Trevally (Carnax lutesc) ...
Striped Pigfish, Bodianus izuensis
Striped Pigfish, Bodianus izuensis at Solitary Islands Marine Park
Striped Pygmygoby, Eviota sebreei (Jordan & Seale, 1906)
Striped Siphonfish specimen
Striped Surgeonfish, Acanthurus lineatus (Linnaeus, 1758) ...
Free-line live shrimp or small pinfish or pigfish (grunts) near the bottom to entice trout out of grass-bed holes. Attaching a float will allow these baits to drift over the grass beds as you search for trout.
Usually the unlucky fish is a menhaden, which accounts for 90 to 95% of the birds' diet, but brown pelicans are also known to prey on pigfish, pinfish, herring, sheepshead, silversides, mullet, grass and top minnows, ...
On the eastern coast of the United States, they consume mostly menhaden, an abundant fish commercially used for fish meal and oil. On the west coast they eat mostly anchovies and sardines. They also consume herring, sheepshead, pigfish, mullet, ...
The California sargo is common along the Pacific coast and the commercially important pigfish is found from Long Island Sound to Texas.
 See also: Shark, Perch, Sunfish, Shrimp, Spider
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