Help Identifing this fish
Posted: November 3rd, 2009, 7:06 pm
Caught this while throwing a cast net. Never seen this fish before
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Help Identifing this fish
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Re: Help Identifing this fish
Posted: November 3rd, 2009, 7:19 pm
looks like a gizzard shad to me ...
Re: Help Identifing this fish
Posted: November 3rd, 2009, 7:23 pm
You were on one of my stink fish holes. You can have them all.
Re: Help Identifing this fish
Posted: November 3rd, 2009, 10:28 pm
is it a razorbelly?
used to catch em in mullet net by the hundreds, thats what we called em. very sharp on the belly. and a pain when caught in a net.
used to catch em in mullet net by the hundreds, thats what we called em. very sharp on the belly. and a pain when caught in a net.
Re: Help Identifing this fish
Posted: November 3rd, 2009, 10:48 pm
How did it taste 
Re: Help Identifing this fish
Posted: November 3rd, 2009, 11:05 pm
Looks like a shad to me also. Were you cast nettin' on Lake Jackson?
Re: Help Identifing this fish
Posted: November 4th, 2009, 7:03 am
Walkulla beach to to the right around the oyster bars in the creekJust Fish wrote:Looks like a shad to me also. Were you cast nettin' on Lake Jackson?
Re: Help Identifing this fish
Posted: November 4th, 2009, 7:25 am
Big eyes, little head.... id call it a "dork fish"!!!
Re: Help Identifing this fish
Posted: November 4th, 2009, 7:30 am
Flanders wrote:Big eyes, little head.... id call it a "dork fish"!!!
Re: Help Identifing this fish
Posted: November 4th, 2009, 9:53 am
if it had little eyes and a big head we'd call it an Obama fishFlanders wrote:Big eyes, little head.... id call it a "dork fish"!!!
Re: Help Identifing this fish
Posted: November 4th, 2009, 10:11 am
Re: Help Identifing this fish
Posted: November 4th, 2009, 1:22 pm
That is not whitebait! As the west coasters would call it Scalled sardine, Harengula jaguana!
It is a gizzard shad though Dorosoma cepedianum
It is a gizzard shad though Dorosoma cepedianum
Re: Help Identifing this fish
Posted: November 4th, 2009, 1:38 pm
Gizzard Shad.. Ochlochnee River is full of them.
Re: Help Identifing this fish
Posted: November 4th, 2009, 5:20 pm
Looks like an LY to me.
Re: Help Identifing this fish
Posted: November 4th, 2009, 5:45 pm
It's bait