caught a pipefish looking creature tonight while fishing

[hotelbravo]

I go fishing frequently for ghost shrimp and small minows that I freeze and feed to my anemone. Tonight I was out and caught a pipefish looking creature in a deep pool of water it was solid white with only a back fin. I didnt think there were any in the area im in. I live in biloxi mississippi. Anyone know what kind it was based on the information I gave?
I didnt have phone with me to take pictures and I didnt want to take it home since it would likely die in my aquarium.

 

[rgulrich]

I's suggest Google "gulf coast pipefish" click over to images and see if any are close. There appears to be a variety of them from Texas all the way over to Florida.

Cheers,
Ray

 

[StarlinMarlin]

The gulf coast has several species of pipefish. 7 that I know of along with dwarf seahorses and Erectus seahorses. We catch sargassum pipefish and gulf pipefish all the time along with a seahorse here and there at my place in Matagorda, Texas. You will have the same species in Mississippi.

 

[Betta132]

Was it stiff, or could it bend its body? If it was stiff, you probably caught a trumpetfish or cornetfish. If it could wiggle around like a snake, it was probably a pipefish.

 

[hotelbravo]

Was it stiff, or could it bend its body? If it was stiff, you probably caught a trumpetfish or cornetfish. If it could wiggle around like a snake, it was probably a pipefish.

no where close to being stiff.

 

[WerezMiePie]

I hate trumpet fish they are terrifying...

 

[Betta132]

How are trumpetfish terrifying? Even the big ones have tiny mouths.

 

[ThRoewer]

I had a juvenile trumpet fish back in the 90s - really cool fish. Unfortunately he sucked up some crushed corals while I wasn't home and suffocated.