Thread: What is it?

Speaking of Skipjacks, I was fishing the tailwaters below KY Dam catching crappie. I took the fish to the cleaning site at the campground and while I was there a guy bought in a bucket full of skipjacks, stepped up and started filleting them. Somebody said to him, "Buddy I hate to tell you those things are skipjacks and you can't eat them."

The fellow never missed a stroke and just went right ahead cleaning them and said, "By golly, my mother in law is staying at our house and been there 2 weeks. She told me she wanted a mess of fish and by golly here they are." 100% true story except those are not the exact words he used.

Yep. I see the difference. Don't lip one. Lol. We catch the skippers on the Osage too using small lures.

I would like to catch some skipjack. Where can I find some to catch? Are golden eye as acrobatic as skipjack?

Best places to get skips are below dams on the Cumberland, Tennessee, or Arkansas rivers, in the springtime. Sometimes they gather below Alton (Melvin Price) lock and dam on the Mississippi, they are probably still there now but it has been pretty slow there. In September they can be caught below bagnal, but it is hit or miss. When they are there it is a good time. Mooneye don't put up the fight skips do, but are still fun when they are stacked up.

Watched a couple of guys catch a bunch around the lock and dam on lowers Osage. They had 3 small white jigs on each pole and was jigging up and down. Sometimes 2-3 on a pole at a time.

I forgot about that dam. I need to fish there again soon. That place can be fun.