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J.McDonald Knives · Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2013 12:23 pm Post subject: Clouds of hardheads

Has anyone seen this phenomenon? A couple of weeks ago I was out on Caldwell pier at night and saw a HUGE swarm of fish, looked like a cloud. Wasn't sure what it was until my buddy cast a dead shrimp into the middle of it and pulled up a hardhead. There must have been anywhere from 5k-10k just in that one cloud. Had the same phenomenon the next morning out on the jetties that are near the pier and they were on the channel side. I had never seen anything like that before but it was a sight to see. Too dark to get pics with my cell phone tho.

SaltyMutt · Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2013 12:31 pm Post subject:

Never seen it but I wonder how many times they accidentally stab themselves. Very Happy

Nice gar by the way, I'll be hopefully doing some serious gar fishing next month. Welcome to the site!!
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J.McDonald Knives · Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2013 12:33 pm Post subject:

Thanks. Joined a couple of years ago but just hadn't really be on here much. My buddy who lives around the corner from me says he gets on here a bunch but I dont know his screen name. That gator gar was in my backyard which is on the Nueces River.

OSOFARAWAY · Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2013 7:56 pm Post subject:

I've seen the same thing on Bob Hall, the cloud must have been 10 yards by 30 yards of solid hardheads, don't remember the time of the year for sure but I think it was around early March.
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J.McDonald Knives · Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2013 8:39 pm Post subject:

It truly is an interesting sight to see. It kinda threw me off of fishing for a bit too cause if they were like that a couple of weeks ago, no telling how long they will be like that which is why I'm holding off a bit on fishing until the water warms up a bit more so that I can make sure I'm prepared for some heavy shark fishing. Smile

eksda · Flour Bluffian in training Joined: 04 Dec 2009 Posts: 288

every summer in galveston at the pier we go to there tons of baby hardheads and baby gafftop some no more than 2 inches. at night you can see thousands of them little boogers. most times you will reel in and find one and you never even knew it was there. lol. they are a nusiance but they are a part of nature,

Crash · Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2013 7:56 pm Post subject:

Saw that at Indain point in late Febuary once....and it was 30 feet off the shore as well.
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justletmein · Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2013 10:17 am Post subject:

If I saw that I think I'd pack up and leave. Laughing

Biggest I've seen is at the cleaning tables at Charlie's Bait Camp, toss a fish carcass in and watch about 100 of them ball up on it like starving piranhas. Pretty neat actually, seeing nature take care of business like that.
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workinbird · Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 10:09 am Post subject:

Yup! I have seen the same thing a couple of times. Always at night too! <*/)))><