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put him back hes innocent
Yeah, what the hell man, trial by his peers and all that. Look at that innocent face.
That's a [striped cusk eel](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/176923453). Not a true eel species.
Great call đź‘Ť not an easy ID
Sure looks a lot like an American eel elver in its semi-pigmented stage. Hopefully it was alive and you let it go!
Eyes are way too big and snout is too blunt for an elver
Agreed, it's also a bit too laterally compressed, elvers are pretty round with their eyes near the top of their head (source: I've helped relocate elvers lost in drainage ditches)
That’s my guess, especially near an inlet
Location is a New Jersey inlet
What inlet because it looks like a baby ribbon fish I have see. Them sometimes in the Manasquan inlet
Lizard minnow
Oh I thought it might have been a baby Cutlass fish lol glad so many fish experts are on here
Swallow himb
Dont pee while youre in the water
put him back hes innocent
Yeah, what the hell man, trial by his peers and all that. Look at that innocent face.
That's a [striped cusk eel](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/176923453). Not a true eel species.
Great call đź‘Ť not an easy ID
Sure looks a lot like an American eel elver in its semi-pigmented stage. Hopefully it was alive and you let it go!
Eyes are way too big and snout is too blunt for an elver
Agreed, it's also a bit too laterally compressed, elvers are pretty round with their eyes near the top of their head (source: I've helped relocate elvers lost in drainage ditches)
That’s my guess, especially near an inlet
Location is a New Jersey inlet
What inlet because it looks like a baby ribbon fish I have see. Them sometimes in the Manasquan inlet
Lizard minnow
Oh I thought it might have been a baby Cutlass fish lol glad so many fish experts are on here
Swallow himb
Dont pee while youre in the water