menhadden as bait fish

Steve asked: "That was the only fish we used....and we were not very
successful. Was it the bait or just "one of those days"."

Steve that is hard to tell. What species were you targeting? Was the
menhaden AKA porgies kept live and used as live bait or where they allowed
to die?

Porgies work well when targeting red snapper, amberjack, cobia and shark.
Live hardtails work best for tuna, and mahi mahi. Both will work dead or
live but work best when fished live. Most charters in Louisiana use dead
porgies when targeting red snapper but will catch some hardtails to use for
tuna, amberjack or cobia. Hardtails can be caught around buoys or rigs.

There are good days and bad days every fisherman so I would say t probably
was just an off day. The last inshore charter I went on only yield 7 fish
with 4 fisherman. The one 4 days later yielded 150 specks, 30 reds, 22
flounders, 15 mangrove snapper and 1 6 foot black tip shark with 6
fisherman. Both charters were with the same captain and we fished the same
area.

Sarge

Menhaden is Not a porgy, porgy is a scup and very edible.
Menhaden or Bunker is used in fertilizer and wd40.
"Sarge" wrote in message
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Steve asked: "That was the only fish we used....and we were not very
successful. Was it the bait or just "one of those days"."

Steve that is hard to tell. What species were you targeting? Was the
menhaden AKA porgies kept live and used as live bait or where they allowed
to die?

Porgies work well when targeting red snapper, amberjack, cobia and shark.
Live hardtails work best for tuna, and mahi mahi. Both will work dead or
live but work best when fished live. Most charters in Louisiana use dead
porgies when targeting red snapper but will catch some hardtails to use for
tuna, amberjack or cobia. Hardtails can be caught around buoys or rigs.

There are good days and bad days every fisherman so I would say t probably
was just an off day. The last inshore charter I went on only yield 7 fish
with 4 fisherman. The one 4 days later yielded 150 specks, 30 reds, 22
flounders, 15 mangrove snapper and 1 6 foot black tip shark with 6
fisherman. Both charters were with the same captain and we fished the same
area.

Sarge

Sorry for the spelling mistake I meant pogy not porgy.

Any of several species of fish of the genus Brevoortia, especially B.
tyrannus of American Atlantic and Gulf waters, used as a source of fish oil,
fertilizer, and bait. Also called mossbunker, pogy.

Sarge

Sorry for the spelling mistake I meant pogy not porgy.

Any of several species of fish of the genus Brevoortia, especially B.
tyrannus of American Atlantic and Gulf waters, used as a source of fish oil,
fertilizer, and bait. Also called mossbunker, pogy.

Sarge