2016 bait found in fish
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Aces
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goingView attachment 29021 to give some of theses a try and see if one can match the hatch
Been slaying the slabs on a 3 inch 50/50 ch/brass tom mack
Birdsnest
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I did good with a half and half crome/gold coho killer.
Agreed, that is definitely a juvenile rockfish.
I'll bite on agentaqua... that is a pacific sandfish with the herring in your picture.
Well done Bugs! Wish I had prizes to give-out. Guess the best I can do is a "like" - and maybe another challenge:
hambone
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goingView attachment 29021 to give some of theses a try and see if one can match the hatch
Here's my attempt to match the hatch, maybe a bit big.
wishiniwasfishin1
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We fished Sangster last weekend and were on the hook using live bait. We did ok with herring but I kind of wish we had shiners. Of the Three nice mid teens fish only one had a herring (and we think it was stripped from one of our lines) the rest had shrimp and shiners.... [/ATTACH]
There have been a couple mentions this year in this thread and elsewhere of folks finding "shrimp" in their Salmon stomachs. Krill (Euphausiids) are a major food source for juvenile and adult salmon and they show up pretty often, particularly in Coho stomachs. We are doing research with juvenile Chinook and we are finding true shrimp (not Euphausiids) in a few stomachs (Pasiphaea pacifica). These are shrimp that spend their whole lives in the water column unlike most familiar species. I am curious if some of the reports of shrimp observed in salmon stomachs this year could also be these pelagic shrimp rather than krill. In the attached picture the critter in the box is a euphausiid (compact, bigger eyes in proportion to body), the rest of the critters are pelagic shrimp.
Anyone seen these pelagic shrimp in stomachs this year?
Anyone seen these pelagic shrimp in stomachs this year?
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Olde School
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I understand that they're known as, "Squat Lobsters."
lordofthesprings
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Peahead
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I have used their 'text book' name "Galathied Crab" as I used to do alot of underwater photography years ago and would search out every species I captured with my camera. They do come into shallow water where scuba divers can reach them but quite common in deeper prawn traps. "Squat Lobster" as they are commonly called, certainly is appropriate considering how they appear. Aparently they like to eat sunken wood !
https://www.google.ca/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=GXHdV5jTFafP8gekk4L4CA#q=galathied+crab
wishiniwasfishin1
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I am always shocked at how the bait fish are in a 'whole' condition when you look in the salmon stomach. The salmon really inhale the bait....
Peahead
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I find them in salmon more often in the winter time ( at least locally to Van.) when the salmon are feeding pretty much right on bottom. This is why a spoon in the winter that resembles a shiner shape and colour often produces well. Shiners in summer are more plentiful up in shallow reef areas and dock/pilings. This summer I found chinook often much tighter to shore and shallow locally, in part due to the plentiful anchovy schools in tight but perhaps that would also bring salmon into where there are lots of summer shiners. What is nice is salmon are opportunists and survivalists - if no herring or anchovy can be found, they will just eat what's readily available !
Go.Fish
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Thank you! I searched endlessly last year trying to find out what they were.
Looked exactly like this....
Cuba Libre
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Squat lobsters are frequently found in prawn traps at 500 ft.
