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I have caught many of them here in Florida and I believe the "official" name is Spotted Weakfish. We always called them Speckled Trout.

When my parents lived in Port St. Lucie, my dad and I would fish the Indian River lagoon and the specs (as my dad called them) were always cooperative. Tie on a Krockodile spoon or something shiney that casts well, keep it above the vegetation on the way back in, and the specs will find it. Those were typically 12" to 18", and were fun to catch, especially while wading.

I've fished in the Wells Main area too, and that inlet seems like a popular spot during the day, lots of people fishing there. I tried walking around the inshore side of that inlet, and even fished from the area near that restaurant on the opposite shore just inside of the inlet, but no luck for me there. One particularly foggy night, there was a dredge in the inlet, and it was pumping sand up from inside the inlet, then it would make a run out offshore about a mile and dump it, then come back and do it again. You could see how high that ship floated empty, and how low it sat when full. All the lights were visible through all the fog, but it looked like a spaceship when it would disappear going offshore, and then reappearing a short time later. In my mind, I figured that there had to be fish feeding where all that bottom was being disturbed, but I never caught anything, so maybe not.
That Wells area is a beautiful area to fish though.

Great fish. Conratulations.
I'm more of a worm and bobber type. My grand daughter likes fishing with me.