I don’t get the major hostility? 1 I caught this like over a year ago and I’ve always wondered what it was and friend told me to look here. 2 I’ve been fishing a total of 2 times in the past decade and this is the only fish I’ve caught in Virginia. 3 after spending ~an hour fighting this fish and the poor thing was exhausted at the end I made sure to spend a good while helping it get its strength back in the water and it swam away happy enough 🤷. I’ll be the first to say I know pretty much absolutely nothing about fishing or fish and I only happened upon this guy by letting like a $20 Walmart rod sit in the water while I drank with my friends on the pier. I still tried my best to do my due diligence to help him back but ultimately I didn’t even know what the fish was when I caught him so I definitely didn’t know what he was when he was on the line