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Today I put in at the Newport bridge. Went downstream past the old boatworks . There were boats fishing in every channel that had been dug out. Seems they were catching keeper sized sheephead throw backs trout and reds. I talked to a couple that fished from the boatramp last night and caught keeper sheephead, trout and reds. They brought their boat back tonight for more. I talked to a fellow yaker who caught a keeper red a a couple of trout on live shrimp.

Those I talked to that went upstream from the bridge caught a few bass.

Oh what did I catch? well I caught snags 3 times a few bites by unknown fish (kept switching to smaller hooks but still didt find out what they were. Had a good time though.

Way to chase after them BD.....

Good news - my last few trips have been nothing but shorts and Butter/Sugar/white trout. Does anyone know what their "real" name is?
I hope the cold has run them up the river....

You know i always heard them called "bait stealers" I understand they are pretty good to eat. I have never seen them anywhere else.

Sure would like to buy poperty on one of those basins just down stream from the Newport bridge where they used to build boats (ships?)

They do eat great! scale em, gut e, fry em!!!
You others chime in...

One tip- use a jighead with just a 1" piece of white GULP on the shank.
Fish it on a "bass" rod- very stiff graphite so you can feel the bite.
They cant get it off and you will catch them.

bman wrote:Good news - my last few trips have been nothing but shorts and Butter/Sugar/white trout. Does anyone know what their "real" name is?

I believe it is "silver trout".

I hope the cold has run them up the river....

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bman wrote:Good news - my last few trips have been nothing but shorts and Butter/Sugar/white trout. Does anyone know what their "real" name is?
I hope the cold has run them up the river....

Yep. It is Bairdiella chrysoura, usually called Silver Perch. They move up into the rivers during the cold months and you can catch them like crazy on corks and pieces of shrimp. Great fish for the kids, and if you catch a bunch they make a nice panfish to fry.

See http://myfwc.com/marine/FishID/drumyt.html for a description and picture by Diane Peebles.

They don't get very big, though.

EJ

Keep this between you and me but, I've heard the grouper like'm

Saturday me and a buddy caught about 15 bass up river from newport...only 4 would have been keepers, but we threw them back! I saw a couple people catchin reds!