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Title: Baby Stripers?
Post by: Greg7 on July 18, 2008, 05:59:04 PM
The other night we were out in the metedeconk using a bait net to catch bait. Pulled up 4 or 5 little fish, about 4.5 inches long and nice and thick. They looked like tiny stripers. They had all the same lines running down the side of them.
Title: Re: Baby Stripers?
Post by: gagedylan on July 18, 2008, 06:43:23 PM
last year while seine netting down by mystic island, i found what appears to be the same thing. i took a few to 6 different tackle shops, nobody had a clue
Title: Re: Baby Stripers?
Post by: catfish hunter on July 18, 2008, 08:15:08 PM
white pearch and bass look alike at a young age
Title: Re: Baby Stripers?
Post by: gagedylan on July 18, 2008, 10:17:59 PM
never seen them before....they just start showing up?
Title: Re: Baby Stripers?
Post by: Greg7 on July 18, 2008, 10:36:07 PM
first time I saw them as well.
Title: Re: Baby Stripers?
Post by: seanr8w on July 18, 2008, 10:39:21 PM
Try Them.... could be like Veal of the Sea ...  rofla hhppy rofla
Title: Re: Baby Stripers?
Post by: IrishAyes on July 18, 2008, 10:41:02 PM
Just be sure it is not a species that is size regulated.  t^
Title: Re: Baby Stripers?
Post by: Greg7 on July 18, 2008, 10:46:05 PM
Try Them.... could be like Veal of the Sea ...  rofla hhppy rofla
hhppy

Title: Re: Baby Stripers?
Post by: wink_man on July 19, 2008, 12:30:43 AM
The other night we were out in the metedeconk using a bait net to catch bait. Pulled up 4 or 5 little fish, about 4.5 inches long and nice and thick. They looked like tiny stripers. They had all the same lines running down the side of them.

They could be either baby stripers or white perch, that area is more brackish than salt, same as Kettle Creek area and both species tend to be in there. When seining in the Kettle Creek area in Augusts of years past, in addition to cathing the fish you mention, we've also often caught baby weakfish about the same size, and there's no mistaking them for anything else.

Garry