FOOD RESOURCE COLLEGE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SCIENCES, OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY
LAFAYETTE or SPOT or CHUB
Ward, Artemas. 1923. The Encyclopedia of Food. New York, Number Fifty, Union Square.
is a small, light-colored pan-fish (Leiostomus xanthurus), excellent in quality, weighing up to half a pound or a little more, common along the South Atlantic and Gulf coats. A second "spot" of the same waters, averaging a little smaller but also very good, is Diplodus holbrooki. Among its other names are "pinfish" and "Jimmy".