Hello Friends
It’s Friday, so it must be time for name this fish.
I’ve caught a few of these with my castnet, in a creek off the Wando
About an inch and a half, distinct spot next to the gill.
Kinda tame, genteel almost, compared to the mud minnows and pinfish
thanks for any replies
Menhaden
Also known as a pogie
kinda crazy thought occurred when I brought a few of these in, but I was thinking sardine, as in, I wonder what these little guys might taste like.
In any event, thanks for the answer to what probably seemed like a pretty clueless question
Vegas Dave
Bait. Good bait.
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I wonder what these little guys might taste like.
Ask liveaboardG. I couldn’t tell ya 
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Originally posted by Vegas Davekinda crazy…I wonder what these little guys might taste like. - Vegas Dave
</font id=“quote”></blockquote id=“quote”>I was fishing in a restricted fishing community. It was a transitional area. Public and Privately owned waterways.I was hauling in a 36 inch plus redfish on a 8 pound fishing rig.
Guy showed up and said, “Wow”.
He threw his cast net and caught a good batch of menhaden.
I said, “Nice fish/(bait).” I released my fish and HE took his ‘bait’ back to is house.
Next time I saw him at the same fishing spot I said, “I can put you on some nice fish if you want?”
He explained to me that he was a retired Doctor from another country and had NO interest in whatever I was catching in relation to his dinner. He then caught a net full of menhaden and went home to serve his family to a fresh fish dinner of ‘fatty menhaden’.
What do menhaden taste like? I don’t have a doctors’ degree in THIS country or any other. He never asked ME to come home to dinner.
They are plum full of Omega III oil. The same thing your Doctor prescribes to fight chloresterol. The Omega fleet in the Chesapeake bay has really put a hurting on them thereby limiting the Striped Bass feed. Puts crabs and oysters higher on the food chain for the Rock fish. Rockfish fatten up on them on the way up to spawn and feed on them on the way out. Taste oily but some people eat carp, too.
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it may be splitting hairs to many, but that’s not a maaanhaden. looks very much like a threadfin shad (which are typically found in lower salinity)… position of dorsal fin, visible outlines of scales, and a trailing dorsal element help differentiate from menhaden. can’t see it in your pic or the one below, but the dorsal “thread” is often hard to see laying along the back.
threadfin shad:
atlantic menhaden:
just my $0.02
Hahahaha good one
Wow! I said Menhaden immediately. Assuming salt water. But sure nuff, Shad. Must have been up the creek a ways. Nice call barbawang.
mr wang with the knowledge as always!
“mr keys”
Well, Ill tell you this; those Shad didnt last but two minutes in the bait bucket with the mud minnows and pinfish. When I went to pull them out, their eyes were gone and the little savages had started eating into the Shad’s bellies and spine. Little bite marks all up and down.
Anyways, since they do look like sardines, the next ones I catch are getting fried up in olive oil, salted and squirted with some lemon juice.
Report to follow
Vegas Dave
Shad? A great winter bait. Tight Lines?
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Originally posted by barbawangit may be splitting hairs to many, but that’s not a maaanhaden. looks very much like a threadfin shad (which are typically found in lower salinity)… position of dorsal fin, visible outlines of scales, and a trailing dorsal element help differentiate from menhaden. can’t see it in your pic or the one below, but the dorsal “thread” is often hard to see laying along the back.
just my $0.02
Terrific. Thank you. Pay Bonzo no mind
Threadfins don’t have to be up a creek/river in lower salinity. I’ve caught plenty right smack in inlet mouths and outside in the ocean.
Barbawang is right, that is a threadfin shad, not a pogie.