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LaSalle 155 · Posted: Tue May 22, 2012 4:01 am Post subject: Help with fish ID

Last weekend, in the ship channel a few miles from Port Aransas, I saw two kinds of fish school-feeding on the surface. One was a small silver fish, kind of like a school of pirahanas. I think these were pompano. The others were much larger, dark colored, and with a forked tail, sometimes clearing the water completely. Bonita supposedly make a giant splash while feeding, so I don't think it was bonita. Any ideas what these fish are, and how to catch them? They would not hit a topwater lure or a silver spoon.

ltorna1 · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 17 Apr 2009 Posts: 3240

Those are dolphins. Try I live 10 inch speckled trout with a piano wire leader, and hold on.

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OutCast · Posted: Tue May 22, 2012 6:57 am Post subject:

Hardtails(bluefish) and Spanish macks...jus saying

FishLady · Posted: Tue May 22, 2012 3:33 pm Post subject:

Don't get caught up in this....all Specks have to be at least 15 inches to keep. Do not use for bait..it's illegal
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ltorna1 · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 17 Apr 2009 Posts: 3240

nah I'm just playing with ya. Like the others said, most likely ladyfish and kings/smacks. Could have been bluefish too. All of them are fun to catch, and all but the ladyfish are good eating.

ltorna1 · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 17 Apr 2009 Posts: 3240

if they won't hit the spoon, keep on down sizing and use a flourocarbon leader. You might get bit off but sometimes they are very picky. Also try a gotcha lure or the smallest sized mannolure out there. Then again, I did all of the above on a school of bonita and still couldn't get a hit.

Johninaustin · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 03 Jun 2007 Posts: 1113

Bluefish. The damn things drive me nuts they are so picky. You can drag lure after lure thru the school and not get a single bump.

The only lure I've been successful with is a small freshwater white bass slab spoon I happened to have in the saltwater tacklebox by mistake. 1/4 oz and very tiny tied to a flouro leader.

I missed one and hooked one before it was gone. Crying or Very sad