Florida & Georgia - What type of Fish? -(KEYS)

We catch and released these in the Keys... Lady fish?

Anyone know what type of fish they are?

lady fish

Lady fish....big ass eye is a dead giveaway

They are supposed to be good snook bait. (live)

They are supposed to be good snook bait. (live)

Ladyfish, you can tell as the one is the first picture is $hit'n on the boat. Great bait both whole and in chunks.

Great bait!

Ladyfish, aka skipjack.

the larger ones put on a nice tarpon like show.

Lady Fish, never heard them called skip jacks. We have skip jacks here and they look nothing like lady fish. Fantastic live snook bait in the 10-14" length. Make great chunk bait as well.

wrong........ not a ladyfish....

wrong........ not a ladyfish....

So what is it?

sorry, I was in the middle of cooking dinner.

The fish in question belongs to a deepwater species on long-scale threadfin.
The eyes and HUGE clear nose gives it away. They come to florida during
storm season. ladyfish do not have the huge eye and clear nose like a
pilchard/greenie.

in stuart we will catch them on the beach when a hurricane rolls towards the
carolinas. they live in 600 + feet of water generally but storms mess them up,
and they come into shallows.

hope this helps.

Could of had a IGFA world record if you documented it.

[QUOTE=fishkill_98;4826944]sorry, I was in the middle of cooking dinner.

The fish in question belongs to a deepwater species on long-scale threadfin.
The eyes and HUGE clear nose gives it away. They come to florida during
storm season. ladyfish do not have the huge eye and clear nose like a
pilchard/greenie.

in stuart we will catch them on the beach when a hurricane rolls towards the
carolinas. they live in 600 + feet of water generally but storms mess them up,
and they come into shallows.

hope this helps.

Could of had a IGFA world record if you documented it.[/QUOTE


:rofl::rofl:

sorry, I was in the middle of cooking dinner.

The fish in question belongs to a deepwater species on long-scale threadfin.
The eyes and HUGE clear nose gives it away. They come to florida during
storm season. ladyfish do not have the huge eye and clear nose like a
pilchard/greenie.

in stuart we will catch them on the beach when a hurricane rolls towards the
carolinas. they live in 600 + feet of water generally but storms mess them up,
and they come into shallows.

hope this helps.

Could of had a IGFA world record if you documented it.

You catch them in Stuart when a hurricane is in the Carolinas.;?

It sure looks like a ladyfish to me. Here's one
http://schadt.typepad.com/photos/march_7_fishing_and_selby/mar_7_lady3.jpg

it's a friggin lady fish for gods sake not some creature from the great depths......

Hurricane passes florida on way to carolinas which creates a bottom swell
that pulls the fish to our coast instead of its normal home deep in the
Atlantic.
Amd I still say it is a member of the Threadfin species.

Ladyfish with PMS :grin:
http://www.dinosoria.com/poissons/poisson_abysse_03.jpg

It's a ladyfish... and my favorite bait since we can catch them any time we want them in the rivers that drain out of the Everglades. The only reason I'm not catching fish with them in blue water is that I gave up on that scene in the late eighties.... Everything, and I mean everything eats ladies. We fish them as live baits (up to about 14-15") and cutbaits (in little bitty pieces or great big chunks). I never try to keep them on ice overnight since they deteriorate quickly. You have to catch fresh ones every day. Here's a partial list of the species we catch on ladies... snook, redfish, speckled trout, tarpon, snapper, grouper, sharks, sawfish, cobia, triple tail, and I've probably left out a few.....

Every year my anglers will take the biggest fish of any species on nothing but cut ladyfish.... redfish to 35lbs, snook to 25lbs, tarpon to 150, tripletail up to 18lbs... and so it goes. Here's two pics of fish that ate ladies, the first was just last week on cutbait, the second was last winter on a live lady....
[img][IMG]http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee111/lemaymiami/fishpics/47d9fb44.jpg
[img][IMG]http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee111/lemaymiami/fishpics/547d78ef.jpg

I do lots and lots of light tackle lure fishing and love to fish guys with fly rods.... but when we want to tangle with something large and cranky - pretty hard to beat a ladyfish....

sorry to re-visit this but the upside down picture reveals more than the 5,000 ladyfish I have
caught over my 45 years of fishing in florida. sorry I am a 4 th. generation cracker.

the "smile" Mouth of the fish is not one of the "Ladyfish" it's large "DEEPWATER" eye
is also a dead giveaway. smile on that freak is closer to a bottom feeder not a top water.......

It has a small slanted mouth not a "tarpon-like" mouth. sorry. to large of eyes to
be a shallow water species kind-of like a escobar/swordfish/tilefish/queen-snapper etc.

don't mean to be argumentative, but open your minds that it might not be a ladyfish.

5 years ago we thought that there were only 4 snooks in south florida and 1 bonefish
species now we now there are 5 and 2.....

have fun ;)

it's a god damn ladyfish already.

Your all wrong, its a poor mans tarpoon :rofl::rofl::rofl:

settle down.

it's a god damn ladyfish already.

Those are small barracuda's

lol.......they are fun to catch. very acrobatic

So how do I use this lady fish as live bait? What method and location? ..sorry for the newb questions...

So how do I use this lady fish as live bait? What method and location? ..sorry for the newb questions...

Any way, any where. Chunk them, live, dead, tarpon and snook eat them, inshore or offshore. They smell like crap so they attract everything.

Is the a size limit or # you can catch?

no limits or size regulations in fla.

Ladyfish... ton of fun on a flyrod.