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Any advice on where to catch pilchards out of Rock Landing in Panacea?
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Not sure about Pilchards, but you'll find schools of white bait offshore in about 20'+ of water

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Pilchards, scaled sardines, white bait. It's all the same bait fish.

Do some call these LY's, alewives?

eightwt wrote:Do some call these LY's, alewives?

Nope, those are Gulf menhaden. Also called bunker and pogy.

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silverking wrote:

eightwt wrote:Do some call these LY's, alewives?

Nope, those are Gulf menhaden. Also called bunker and pogy.

Actually what is referred to LY’s on the Florida panhandle is a scaled sardine.

http://www.gulfshorespierfishing.com/f2 ... l-y-16660/

Also referred to Pilchards and white bait:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaled_sardine

My source is the late expert Vic Dunaway, former editor of Florida Sportsman and his book, Sport Fish of the Gulf of Mexico.

There are plenty of local references that aren't universal. For example, many Panhandle fishermen refer to pinfish as choffers. Bonito and bonita are another example. Just depends on who you talk to.

That’s definitely true, naming of fish is so confusing due to local names as you mentioned. He was asking if some people call pilchards or scaled sardines “LYs” and they do, around here. But as you say they also call gulf menhaden LYs or alewives too. Yep, what’s called Bonita around here are actually false albacore or little tunny. It’s very confusing.

leonreno wrote:

silverking wrote:

eightwt wrote:Do some call these LY's, alewives?

Nope, those are Gulf menhaden. Also called bunker and pogy.

Actually what is referred to LY’s on the Florida panhandle is a scaled sardine.

http://www.gulfshorespierfishing.com/f2 ... l-y-16660/

Also referred to Pilchards and white bait:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaled_sardine

I can’t speak to the panhandle, but in the big bend it is as sk mentioned. Bait is regional, they call a pinfish a Choffer in Panama City. The guys I know over there call a menhaden an LY. And a white bait is a pilchard. Same as us. But your link is to a forum like this one with Wikipedia as the reference, sooo more opinion than fact

Come to think of it, everywhere I’ve fished in Florida, a scaled sardine is a pilchard or white bait. An ly is a pogy/bunker/ menhaden

Here's my naming source for my bait that I constantly manage to feed to Amberjacks.

https://myfwc.com/wildlifehabitats/prof ... ic-bumper/

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Srbenda wrote:Here's my naming source for my bait that I constantly manage to feed to Amberjacks.

https://myfwc.com/wildlifehabitats/prof ... ic-bumper/

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I’ve never seen or heard of a bumper before. An Atlantic bunker( with a k) is an LY..

The bumper appears to be some sort of Jack. Definitely not white bait/pilchard or a ly/menhaden

Dockwilson wrote:Any advice on where to catch pilchards out of Rock Landing in Panacea?
Thanks

No one gave you any advise so I will. You can catch pilchards anywhere in that area on top of grass in 4’ of water close to deeper water but you have to chum. The large sand bar that goes from the spring creek channel back to almost rock landing channel that we refer to as the t- bar holds pilchards that you can sight cast sometimes. The best chum is purrina tropical fish food, but you can mix your own using brown bread, jack mackerel and anise oil. Chumming usually takes 15 to 30 minutes. Of course some grass flats are better than others and I can’t give mine up. Good luck and there is no better live bait than the scaled sardine, white bait or pilchard and they sure as hell ain’t LY’s.

grasshopper wrote:

Dockwilson wrote:Any advice on where to catch pilchards out of Rock Landing in Panacea?
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No one gave you any advise so I will. You can catch pilchards anywhere in that area on top of grass in 4’ of water close to deeper water but you have to chum. The large sand bar that goes from the spring creek channel back to almost rock landing channel that we refer to as the t- bar holds pilchards that you can sight cast sometimes. The best chum is purrina tropical fish food, but you can mix your own using brown bread, jack mackerel and anise oil. Chumming usually takes 15 to 30 minutes. Of course some grass flats are better than others and I can’t give mine up. Good luck and there is no better live bait than the scaled sardine, white bait or pilchard and they sure as hell ain’t LY’s.

Great advice. I use the same recipe for chumming them up. Just make sure if you buy the Purina in 50lb. bag make sure you keep it in a sealed container!

I can’t ever find purina tropical fish food. Where do y’all get it?