A Remora Attachment?

Type: Chesapeake
Region: Eastern
Location: Lower Patuxent River

I caught this in the Patuxent River off of Hog Point today. Can you tell me what it is? It appears to be lije remora who attaches to other fish. It was approx 13 inches long and caufht on a squid strip.

Thanks, Ray

DNR's Response -
Ray, you caught a sharksucker remora. Several species of remora have been recorded in the Bay, but the sharksucker remora is the only species encountered regularly. These fish are often caught while chumming, and seem to spend a considerable amount of time free-swimming alone or in schools, despite their ability to attach to large fish with the sucking disk on their head. Some of the reports we get mistake this remora for a young, deformed cobia because of the white and black stripes on its sides. Remoras are reported as for north as the Bay Bridge.
Eric Durell, Fisheries Serivce Biologist