On the Osage cuaght this.has a mouth full of teeth. Thinking some type of shad?[emoji45]
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On the Osage cuaght this.has a mouth full of teeth. Thinking some type of shad?[emoji45]
Pic please.:biggrin
Without pic guessing skipjack. They are light colored, long and skinny. Fight really good. The other fish with lots of teeth are walleye or sauger which are dark colored. Other than gar these are the ones I can think of with lots of teeth.
Skipjack. Picture came n after I posted. They grab a lure with vengeance.
Found it online. Thanks. They do hit hard. Drug a noodle plum under. We cuaght two real quick. They are now bait
Actually that may be a gold eye. look at this link for gold eye. Holts Summit angler catches state-record goldeye | Missouri Department of Conservation
MO state record for a goldeye fish was set this spring weighing 2 lbs and 17 1/4 inches.
Sorry I can't get the link for the MDC for some reason. Ok now :dono
Google goldeye fish.. for more pics.
Agree with above we call them golden eyes. Catfish bait. Oh northern pike like them too but not exactly legal as bait.:yikes
Yup mooneye or golden eye. I Catch lots of em every year, as they are great bait. Don't freeze for crap so use them fresh and use a good rod holder!
When the mayflies are hatching in our rivers, you will see all the mayflies clustered on leaves and branches along the bank, the moon eyes are stacked underneath and fishing with a light wire crappie hook under a float, using a couple fat mayflies for bait, it a pretty good time. Another place to get them is when the mulberries are dropping along the banks of creeks and small rivers. They gather under overhanging limbs and gobble up the berries.
Darleen, here is a pic of a skipjack. This one is frozen and from Tennessee but I catch them in the Missouri, the Osage and the Mississippi, too. Skippies , also called Tennessee tarpon or blue back herring. They have a blue-ish purple back, the mouth looks just like a miniature tarpon, and they fight an amazing fight. Lots of tailwalking and drag screaming runs. ... And you often hook 2-3 at a time, and are commonly over 2 lbs, so catching them is a blast! When you get on a really good skippie bite, it is unlike any other fishing around! You better bring some spare fishing line and plan on having to respool because they twist up a line and break you off a lot.
Mooneye and skips have a very similar body shape as they are both herrings, moon eyes are all silver and have the teeth, skippies don't.
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I caught one in Mississippi this year on Sardis and thinking it was some kind of shad, I stuck my thumb in its mouth to get my hook out. BIG mistake. Found out real quick about those teeth. It is a gold eye.
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.
On the Ohio and Mississippi we always did a little better with the mooneye than with the herring or gizzard shad. But they all caught fish. In the Tennessee or Cumberland I always liked the yellow tail shad or threadfin shad. Sometimes the fish would key on something specific. Drift fishing a live yellow tail near the speed of the current is sheer poison sometimes. I got took to school on that one day and I never forgot it.
Lot of guys are just using the asian carp now. Snag one take just a few seconds and cut bait all day. But a live yellow tail wiggling just a little on the end of that line....man
Live herring will catch stripers