Caught a pile of these this morning...

[Honey Hole]

... not a tributary of the Chesapeake. Correct?

THAT is correct... Check out the rivers in Southampton County, Isle of Wight, etc.

[HOLWACHAGOT]

... not a tributary of the Chesapeake. Correct?

THAT is correct... Check out the rivers in Southampton County, Isle of Wight, etc.

Let's take the knotheads...you let me know when.
Holwachagot

[Graceland]

Next week should be time, might even be able to hook a few this weekend. Big Jim always drags me over there for the shad run, he loves the roe.

[tunachaser1]

hahaha those fish are hitting shad darts because there shad......hickory shad.....they are a huge baitfish supply up here in ct 8 out of ten 50 pound stripers will come on those fish lol

[HOLWACHAGOT]

hahaha those fish are hitting shad darts because there shad......hickory shad.....they are a huge baitfish supply up here in ct 8 out of ten 50 pound stripers will come on those fish lol

I caught some of each(BB Herring and Hickory Shad). The one pictured in the first post IS a Blue Back Herring or and Alewife Herring, not a hickory. The most obvious proof lies in the count of the dorsal rays Think I'll change the name of the darts to Herring darts. By the way, they annihilated a sabiki rig at dusk today. They will be getting fed to the Stripers in the AM. If they live through the night.
Holwachagot

[Animal 1]

I can't tell from the pix.If they are Hickories,you'll fill the livewell faster with a sabiki with a white braid slammer as the weight.I've never successfully chunked them,but as livies,they are sweet for LARGE bass(rockfish to you )

[Capt. Terry]

Your answer is definitely a Blue Back Herring - we catch them and use them for live baiting huge rockfish for this time of the year right now. Delaware just put a limit of 10 fish per man on them. You can catch them at all of the spill ways and damns that branch off of tributaries like the Nanticoke River, the Broadkill River, etc. The spill way by RJ's restaurant in Laurel De is loaded with them at the present. In another week or two the spill way by Norma's restaurant in Milton will be loaded with them and trust me they will slam rockfish in the Indian River Inlet. Catch em up, keep them alive in a live well transport them to an area where you rockfish and dround them with a 4 foot long 50 lb flourocarbon leader and a 8/0 Gamakatsu Octopus Circle Hook through the top of both eye sockets and hold on. Good Luck Capt. Terry

[trollman]

My vote goes for the American Shad.
For what is worth, The scales of the Blue Back Herring are worth more than the fish its self. Very small scales and the main use for it is in womens powder and finger nail polish. You know, like when you see women with sparkles on there skin...dive on in, its Blue Back Herring scales....
Now don't that make you guys feel great!....
Sorry, little light headed tonight... but true fact...

i think we catch tham at all depths up here on bigger sabiki rigs and i call them north atlantic sea herring. awesome for BFT chunking & Stripers galore - a/k/a the New England Trophy Fish.