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AcousTennis Full Grown Flour Bluffian

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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 3:47 pm Post subject: Fish ID |
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I was wading in boiling hot shallow flats yesterday when i came across this little bugger...what is it?
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BamaRed54 Member White Shrimper Boot Club

Joined: 15 Feb 2012 Posts: 912 Location: The Bluff
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 3:57 pm Post subject: |
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It looks like a huge shad! _________________
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lil-red-hunter14 Guest
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 4:00 pm Post subject: |
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| I would say a shad but it doesn't have the black spot like a normal shad??? |
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AcousTennis Full Grown Flour Bluffian

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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 4:20 pm Post subject: |
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Thats a size 13 boot, thought it was big for a shad i dont see much of them around _________________
| ltorna1 wrote: | | I can just imagine a prehistoric nomadic version of AcousticTennis, padding around in a dugout canou with long unkempt hair (not much a stretch lol), catching drum on some 3000 BC version of fishbites. |
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SharkBait Full Grown Flour Bluffian

Joined: 07 Aug 2011 Posts: 1790 Location: >*)\\\><( Flour Bluff Texas, Earth, Milky Way
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 4:26 pm Post subject: |
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menhaden dont have scales like that...not sure what it is
where is ltorna1? he will know.. _________________ http://www.youtube.com/user/Shark456Bait/featured
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jebsays Member White Shrimper Boot Club
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Big Jack Flour Bluffian in training

Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 268 Location: BODY OF CHRIST
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 6:08 pm Post subject: |
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I would say that is a fish. just a guess though.  _________________ "Charlie Don't Surf" |
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FINS Full Grown Flour Bluffian
Joined: 13 Apr 2006 Posts: 1227 Location: San Antonio TX
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 6:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Looks like a shad to me. Although 13 inches would be the biggest I've heard of I've seen some around 6 -8 inches in freshwater. |
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lil-red-hunter14 Guest
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 6:56 pm Post subject: |
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Good find! |
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AcousTennis Full Grown Flour Bluffian

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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 7:05 pm Post subject: |
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Thats close jebsays but i dont think its exactly right...face is rounded on the one i found and it wasnt degraded aside from the missing eye _________________
| ltorna1 wrote: | | I can just imagine a prehistoric nomadic version of AcousticTennis, padding around in a dugout canou with long unkempt hair (not much a stretch lol), catching drum on some 3000 BC version of fishbites. |
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O.B. Flour Bluffian in training

Joined: 04 Jun 2006 Posts: 352 Location: Corpus Christi
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 8:21 pm Post subject: |
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looks like a gizzard shad _________________ You won't know if you don't go! |
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Finsonpins Flour Bluffian in training
Joined: 02 Apr 2009 Posts: 286 Location: Corpus Christi
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 9:10 pm Post subject: |
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| Another vote for shad here. We use to get those large ones at labonte park for gar bait. |
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AcousTennis Full Grown Flour Bluffian

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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 9:31 pm Post subject: |
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DIng Ding Ding winner! Looks exactly like a gizzard shad and a nice sized one at that, thanks yall! _________________
| ltorna1 wrote: | | I can just imagine a prehistoric nomadic version of AcousticTennis, padding around in a dugout canou with long unkempt hair (not much a stretch lol), catching drum on some 3000 BC version of fishbites. |
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