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Saltwater Home | Baitfish Index
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Threadfin Herring
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Threadfin Herring
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Another of my favorite baits is the Threadfin Herring (Opisthonema oglinum) or commonly known on my coast as the greenback. It has a very long thread-like fin at the back of its dorsal that accounts for its name. Again, like most baits, it has many regional names depending on where you live. It grows to 12" according to the books, but I have never seen them over 8". The greenback is usually found only when the water is fairly warm and is easily seen when on the surface. It has been my experience that they do not come to chum like whitebait, but you can occasionally net them in the same cast as whitebait and even on gold hook rigs. Usually to net greenbacks, you need a netter and a boat driver. The driver should maneuver the boat over the school and the netter should throw when the bait is seen on the fish finder. It takes a large, heavy net with a mesh size of 1 1/4 inches to 1 1/2 inches stretch mesh to catch full grown greenbacks. My net radius is12' and I would not suggest one smaller than 10'. As with whitebait, you need a great turnover of fresh sea water in your well as greenbacks are very tender and will die quickly in and overcrowded well. You can hook them through the nose in the same place as whitebait and they make a very good cut bait when bottom fishing with dead bait.
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Tips for using Threadfin Herring
Great bait! We use them off the Port Canaveral Jetty. We have been free swimming them just under the Pier and hammering the Spanish, Blues and an occasional Snook. Tail hook them with no weight very carefully as they are like paper and will easily come off. Ten feet in front of the pier will produce good action. Good luck!
Becky and Ben
I kayak fish the mangroves between Sanibel causeway and deep lagoon area (up river) and everything loves these. I found hooking them in the back very tricky but if you do it right, they’ll kick and swim naturally for while for you. If you do it wrong, you all but kill it.
Hook them about half way between the eye and top fin, and half way between the green/silver divide and top of the back. Too close to the head and you kill or stun it and have to go grab another one. It’s definitely a ‘sweet spot’ but I set my hook almost every time when the fish bite this bait. Free line - no weight, no bobber Snook & Redfish all day.
Paul
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