[wardaddy]

That’s the tail fin not the anal fin you’re pointing out and the reason I said ii thought it was a farm raised trout was because the tail fin is split

Farm raised trout often do that...split tail fin.....that extended tail fin ....I wonder if it’s salt water or brackish

Wild trout do not have split tail

I’m from Miss/Louisiana and it doesn’t look like our shad but the tail is shad like

There are indeed trout farms in central Florida....this pic is from Polk county area but I agree it’s likely not any kind of trout....the tail fin is too extended anyhow

I’m sending it to a buddy of mine in Naples to get his opinion.

He’s fished for fifty five years in Florida.....it’s got me wondering

The speckled nature and the split tail fin being tells....maybe a type of catfish?...pelvic fin with dropped pectoral fin .....

blam do you fish?

[blam]

"blam do you fish? "

Very little.

[rustbucket]

Circle B Bar Reserve is where I took the photo of the eagle chasing the osprey with a fish over Lake Hancock. From what I've observed, most of the osprey at Circle B catch their fish in Lake Hancock, a very large freshwater lake that borders Circle B. If you walk along the shore of Lake Hancock in Circle B, you will often see many osprey eating fish in the trees close to the lake.

From Wikipedia:

"At 4,573 acres (18.51 km2), the lake is one of the largest lakes in Polk County, Florida"

"Although many lakes in Polk County are utilized by sports fishermen, Lake Hancock has not been used for recreational fishing in decades. The dominant fish in the lake are blue tilapia and threadfin shad, and suckermouth catfish."

Here is a link to pictures of threadfin shad: Threadfin Shad

[rustbucket]

From what I've seen on the Internet, the maximum size of threadfin shad is about nine inches. The fish the osprey has is bigger than that. However, there is another similar looking but larger shad that lives in large lakes in Florida, the gizzard shad. The gizzard shad grows to about 20 inches in length.

Here is a link to gizzard shad: gizzard shad

[rustbucket]

Here is a photo from that same trip of mine of an osprey flying in from Lake Hancock with a fish. I was lucky to get the shot. I was standing on a small dock out into Lake Hancock. The osprey suddenly appeared flying full speed from the lake headed into the woods. I turned and got the picture as it went past not far from me.