But it is these little fish that fuel the food chain ... Spanish sardines and Atlantic silverside minnows – best known here as a live bait especially popular with flounder anglers.

That’s why we catch or buy them for bait or chum ourselves ... On the U.S. Atlantic coast, an easy-to-gather candidate is the Atlantic silverside, also known as spearing. These little fish, which grow ...

Trout/Striper/Bluefish Lure to Imitate Silverside Minnow. Break the radio antenna off an ... Take a torpedo weight of the size appropriate for the depths you’ll be fishing in. Heat it momentarily with ...

Generally, these traits go hand in hand with lower success, so once fishing stopped, the silversides were naturally driven to reverse the changes. On the other hand, the populations that became ...

One of my favorite fluke baits is a fluorescent green or white plastic squid rig, baited with a squid strip. And, depending on what the fish want, a minnow or silverside and/or a strip of fluke belly.

Just like fishing in general ... sardines, ballyhoo, silversides, shrimp, herring, mackerel and butterfish. They also carry live eels. It's a lot of bait. But it is not selling like it used ...

Local fishing action continues to improve with the warming water temperatures. Black drum action is now occurring on both ...