![]() ![]() Loves dock and bridge pilings, artificial reefs and any other structure that wears barnacles and/or harbors crabs. Habitat: Areas of rocky bottom, from far up coastal creeks and rivers, to well offshore. SHEEPSHEAD: (Archosargus probatocephalus) Type of Fishing: Casting Drifting Trolling. Novices may fight Amberjack of average size for an hour or longer.īaits: Live and frisky fish. A great deal of stamina matches their strength. Fairly long runs can also occur early in the fight. Game Qualities: A strong, punishing fighter that powers deep and defies lifting. Size: Over deep wrecks and reefs is 30-60 pounds. Dark oblique line through the eye that ends at the dorsal fin. Artificial reefs and wrecks all along the Gulf Coast often harbor huge schools of smaller Amberjack, and many Gulf wrecks are home to big ones as well.ĭescription: Overall brownish or goldish. Habitat: Adults are common at various depths, ranging from reefs several hundred feet deep to fairly shallow wrecks and reefs. ![]() Other Names: Amberfish, AJ, Coronado, Cavilia Type of Fishing: Casting Drifting Still Fishing Trolling. Jacks use their flat sides to good advantage when waging a tug-o-war.īaits: Fresh and frisky live fish. The fight is unspectacular but dogged, the usual pattern being a long first run. Game Qualities: Few fish can out-pull a Crevalle of equal size. Most of the meat is dark red and of strong flavor. World records 57 pounds.įood Value: Poor by most tastes. Hard scutes forward of sickle-shaped tail. Blunt head with yellowish breast, white underside and black spot on rear edge of gill cover. The biggest Jacks often cruise in pairs and are usually found in or near major inlets and around offshore wrecks and reefs.ĭescription: Deep, compressed body. Habitat: Crevalle jacks have variously been described as coastal pack wolves. Fish On Charters Mississippi Gulf Waters Fish Species ![]()
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