Pilchards in Panacea?
Posted: July 10th, 2020, 9:51 pm
Any advice on where to catch pilchards out of Rock Landing in Panacea?
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Nope, those are Gulf menhaden. Also called bunker and pogy.eightwt wrote:Do some call these LY's, alewives?
Actually what is referred to LY’s on the Florida panhandle is a scaled sardine.silverking wrote:Nope, those are Gulf menhaden. Also called bunker and pogy.eightwt wrote:Do some call these LY's, alewives?
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 factleonreno wrote:Actually what is referred to LY’s on the Florida panhandle is a scaled sardine.silverking wrote:Nope, those are Gulf menhaden. Also called bunker and pogy.eightwt wrote:Do some call these LY's, alewives?
http://www.gulfshorespierfishing.com/f2 ... l-y-16660/
Also referred to Pilchards and white bait:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaled_sardine
I’ve never seen or heard of a bumper before. An Atlantic bunker( with a k) is an LY..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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Dockwilson wrote:Any advice on where to catch pilchards out of Rock Landing in Panacea?
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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!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.