Fishing 2-11-10

[rclark12]

were did you catch those im dying to fish for tilapia!
any chance your any were near fresh water shad/herring because i dont think thats a big shiner

 

[CHOMPERS]

What is that first fish? It doesn't look like a shiner, more like a herring.

any chance your any were near fresh water shad/herring because i dont think thats a big shiner

It has to be a herring. However everyone there was saying it was a shiner (I planted the idea, so maybe they were just agreeing). This was in the St. Johns River in Central Florida. We have threadfin herring but they don't get larger than three inches in the river. This one didn't have the thread on it's dorsal.

 

[CHOMPERS]

one word "bait"

I was saying that we could catch a 30 lb large mouth bass with it.

It was too big for a twenty pounder.

 

[CHOMPERS]

I noticed the really bloody fillets so one tip for a better taste to the fish, bleed them as soon as you catch them. Just cut the vein in the gills and leave in water.

Great idea. We've done that with sharks but it never occurred to me to do it with FW fish.

 

[spotfin]

Kinda looks like a gizzard shad. Would catch a really big bass.

 

[rclark12]

Kinda looks like a gizzard shad. Would catch a really big bass.

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your rite deffinatley a gizzard shad that didnt come to mind at first, and they can even get bigger then that!

 

[fobrinkle]

I noticed the really bloody fillets so one tip for a better taste to the fish, bleed them as soon as you catch them. Just cut the vein in the gills and leave in water.

Brilliant idea. Never thought or heard of it.

OP-great catch

 

[Cakilla]

I catch shad like that and cut them up into chunck best catfish bait I have ever found

 

[likestofish]

Great idea. We've done that with sharks but it never occurred to me to do it with FW fish.

I do that with bass ,if you dont they get a funky flavor when frozen

 

[TeChris]

Sweet haul chompers, what did you catch the tiliapia on?