Please ID these grouper

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At least i think these are grouper. I caught these two guys under an inshore boat launch dock on the east coast of Florida just south of Daytona. I was trying to catch pinfish for bait but ended up with these guy who put on an unexpextingly good fight for an ultralight rod w/ 2lb test.


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1st pic to me looks like a baby goliath grouper, I could be wrong. Second pic doesn't appear to be a grouper at all. Again I may be wrong there, not the most expirenced with these species.

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second pic looks like some sort of sculpin
 
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Very much south..
No grouper, i think
 
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aldiaz33 said:
First is a baby Goliath Grouper: Epinephelus itajara

http://www.discoverlife.org/20/q?search=Epinephelus+itajara&b=FB16

http://forums.saltwatersportsman.com/photos/showphoto.php?photo=4516

I hope you released him; they are critically endangered.

Not sure what the second fish is.
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No he is in my 55 gallon FOWLR tank. No Jk. He was released just fine. And I feel a bit BA catching one even if it was a baby lol. It was really nice looking. However, the other one ended up getting gut hooked. He struggled to swim away even though I cut the line.


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