pigfish

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Dolphins, rock-cod, pigfish, and blackfish may be caught as quickly as they can be hauled out.

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  1. noun A North American grunt (Orthopristis chrysoptera) with a piglike mouth, found along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States and important as a food fish. Also called hogfish.

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  • Dolphins, rock-cod, pigfish, and blackfish may be caught as quickly as they can be hauled out. —  Real Soldiers of Fortune
  • Depending on the season and location, fishermen may catch trout, croakers, spot, pigfish, sheepshead, sea bass, tautog, pompano, white perch, bluefish, Spanish mackerel, king mackerel, cobia, spadefish, small sharks, red drum, black drum or other fish on Virginia fishing piers. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
 

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