Skipjack

They are thick below Guntersville Dam right now. Bigguns too!

Poor mans tarpon...good eatin...for a whiskerfish

Catching from the bank? I am shooting blanks this year trying to catch them.

Good to know. I need to stock up my freezer

What does a "skipjack" even look like and is that the actual name of them or just a nickname? I don't think I've ever seen one.

Coosa, google Skipjack herring

Colds not many more in black warrior or tenn

They look like a baby tarpon in every possible way.

That about sums it up. Oh, and I don't remember ever seeing any on the Coosa or any of its tributaries.

Gotta go early morning....they are stacked from the turbines to the restroom. 1oz carolina rigged yellow spoon reeled at a moderate speed

That would probably be why I haven't seen one. I don't fish much away from the home turf.

I was under Nickajack and couldn’t catch bait to save my life. No shad to be found. Some fairly young girl, late teens, was in a flat bottom running up to the turbine and riding the current down river. She was whipping a rod sorta like a fly rod, but casting out and had prob 10 jigs tied on her line and was pulling 6-8 skipjacks at a time. She would have them all off the hook and thrown in the boat in just a second, then 6-8 more. Never seen anything like it. Idk how many she had, but there couldn’t have been much place to stand in that boat.

Richard Gene was below G Dam wearing them out on pearl colored 4" Zoom flukes. Some of the biggest Skip's I've seen. He was fishing for hybrids and striper.