![]() ![]() They also make good live bait for larger species like striped bass and halibut. However, some may actually want to catch them-they are great fun for kids. If you are using small hooks (under a size 4) and small bait, especially pieces of worm, and if shiners are around, you will probably catch them. Shoreline: A frequent catch throughout California’s bays.īait and Tackle : For most anglers, the problem with these fish is how to keep them off your hook, not how to get them on. Piers : Shiners are one of the most numerous fish taken at California piers. Shiner surfperch prefer eelgrass beds in bays and are especially common around piers. Habitat: Typically shallow water bay and oceanfront areas although recorded to a depth of 480 feet. Common from north Baja California, to Alaska. ![]() Range : Punta Baja, northern Baja California, to Saint John Baptist Bay, southeastern Alaska. Size : To 8.3 inches most caught from piers are 4-6 inches in length. ![]() ![]() Females have three yellow bars on the side the males typically only have yellow bars during the winter, in the breeding season they are nearly black. Identification : Their coloring is gray to greenish above, and silvery below. In Mexico called majarra brillosa or perca. Called minnow, shiner, or sparda by 19th century fishermen. Family Embiotocidae, subfamily Embiotocinae.Īlternate Names : Commonly called shiner also 7-11 perch, leven perch, yellow perch, bay perch, yellow shiner. Specie s: Cymatogaster aggregata (Gibbons, 1854) from the Greek root words cymo (foetus or fetus) and gastro (belly) and the Latin word aggregatus (crowded together, referring to the schooling nature of the fish). ![]()
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