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txaggie · Shark Wrangler Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 12

Found a bunch of these jumpin outta the water right at the 4x4 sign...they hung around for about an hour while I threw everything I had tryin to catch somethin that was eatin on em.....what are they? what would you be throwing here?

Taken @ the 4x4 sign this evening...there was a line of pulverized old weed that was pretty annoying to about knee deep...

Bluffer · Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 8:13 pm Post subject:

Downsize your pics please. Cool

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Vern · Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 9:03 pm Post subject:

Looks like what I call shad Question

Torpedo · Pony Mullet Joined: 10 Aug 2004 Posts: 142

Pics resized to 640 x 480 for easier viewing.

jbonorden · Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 9:08 pm Post subject: bait

Some people call them shad, some call them menhaden. I would be throwing one of the new mirrolure catch 5 's. They are shaped like the fish and are topwater plugs.

Nick · Guest

Its called a Watermelon Shad

Erick · Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 11:55 pm Post subject:

I'm with guest, watermelon shad. If they were fairly close I'd bust out a Number 5 Tony Acetta.

Torpedo and I spotted a ball of these guys just within casting distance and pulled out red after red with a slab of whiting and shrimp. The fishing was good until a fella from Dalls pulled up Dukes of Hazzard style and waded out to the second bar infront of the pod. As we looked at him from the shore dumbfounded he yelled back at us "you gotta throw somthing shiny at them" despite him seeing us throw cut bait at them. Needless to say we didnt cast at him but in a righteous sort of way the bait ball swam out deeper then he could cast.

And I don't remember how we knew he was from Dallas either...
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Johnny French · Flour Bluffian in Training Joined: 21 Apr 2005 Posts: 407

The one on the left is a scaled sardine. The ones with the stripes are young jacks, possibly jack crevalles. This website will show you where to purchase the most useful book for fish I.D. in our area, Hoese and Moore's "Fishes of the Gulf of Mexico."

Torpedo · Pony Mullet Joined: 10 Aug 2004 Posts: 142

Man I'll never forget that potlicker from Dallas. Sure was funny casting over him from the beach into the pod when all he could do was stand on the bar out of casting range.

animal · Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 12:16 pm Post subject:

Johnny French is right on the dot on both of them. At first i thought the ones on the right were perch. Watermelon shad have a wider body on them.
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txaggie · Shark Wrangler Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 12

thanks.....i was throwin mainly spoons silver & gold....3/4 ounce and 1/2 ounce......no takers......

Torpedo · Pony Mullet Joined: 10 Aug 2004 Posts: 142

awesum · Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 5:54 am Post subject:

I agree with Johnny French. My first impulse when I saw the pic is that the bait on the left is a "Pilchard"....or at least that's what we've usually called them. But, if you look up "Scaled Sardine" certain references tell you they are also called Pilchards.

The terms Shad, Pilchard, Pogie are often used generically or as "catch-all" terms for baits such as some use the term "Pargo" to describe about 4 or 5 different types of snapper.

nate1 · Guest

The 2 spines on the ventral side (belly) are the key characteristic for fish in the Jack family (Carangidae).

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