+I wondered about the presence of spanish mackerel elsewhere this summer.
My only firsthand was two hours at a platform a couple of miles south of the old Dauphin Island Pier.
There, numbers and...
Be very thankful for that bumper crop of little lys at the pier. They have done a bang-up job of concentrating the Spanish for pier fishers. Elsewhere, I would describe the spanish numbers as...
I concur Tom.
The specific species is named Broad-striped anchovy Anchoa hepsetus
And their numbers do typically suffer in drier years.
Also, lack of water flow into and out of Little Lagoon this...
I'll need some help from #'r on this one, but has anyone else noticed a shortage of what I call rain minnows or red minnows this year? I think they are a type of anchovy. Anyway, I just never...
Are you seeing many sailfish out there Tom? I wonder if all the small ballyhoo we had earlier this year helped with the nibble!?
Rain/Red minnows shortage this...