Thread herring

(Zool.)

the gizzard shad. See under Gizzard.

See also: Thread

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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Caption: Kelly Miller with a Big Bend gag grouper out of Homosassa, caught on a frozen thread herring.

This could be true of the Pacific thread herring Opisthonema libertate (Gunther, 1867), a species widely distributed from northern Peru to the western coast of the Baja California Peninsula and the Gulf of California, Mexico.

Detecting Opisthonema libertate (Gunther, 1867) phenotypic stocks in northwestern coast of Mexico using geometric morphometrics based on body and otolith shape

The species composition varies among landing port: Guaymas and Yavaros: Pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax caeruleus), northern anchovy (Engraulis mordax), thread herring (Opisthonema libertate), mackerel (Scomber japonicus), bigmouth sardine (Cetengraulis mysticetus) round herring (Etremeus teres) and Pina sardine (Oligoplites spp.) (Cisneros-Mata et al.

Spatial distribution and species composition of small pelagic fishes in the Gulf of California

Along the northern Gulf of Mexico and southeastern Atlantic coasts of the United States, the Atlantic thread herring, O.

Biology and fishery for Atlantic thread herring, Opisthonema oglinum, along the North Carolina coast

Caption: Hook set forward in thread herring for slow-trolling.

Purpose Built Bait Rigs: Different hooks in different places

In terms of production, as well as Brazilian sardine, another pelagic species such as the Atlantic thread herring Opisthonema oglinum, Atlantic bumper Chloroscombrus chrysurus and chub mackerel Scomber japonicus accounted for, respectively 13.2%, 6.0% and 4.5% of the total landings of the purse seine fleet in Santa Catarina between 2000 and 2012 (UNIVALI/CTTMar, 2010, 2013).

Overlap of the reproductive cycle and recruitment of the four main species caught by the purse seine fleet in Brazil

The thread herring tend to work the surface starting at sunup.

Beach Blasts

Live baits like pinfish, medium-size blue crabs and finger mullet will get the job done, but chunking with mojarra or thread herring will work as well.

World Class Action

Live baits like pinfish, large pilchards or thread herring are some of the best baits in the beginning of tarpon season.

Get the Jump

With a livewell pulsing with shrimp, crabs, thread herring, scaled sardines and such, we were rigged and ready with light to heavy spin rigs in the console rod holders.

Clearwater, near and dear: in a city with a bay, Intracoastal, barrier islands and a legendary pier, great fishing is never far from home

Two weeks after the deployment cobia were caught on the site and divers reported that thread herring, Spanish sardines and other baitfish already were established on the attractors.

Pyramids down under at Canaveral

It's a hunt because you'll Be sight fishing for the cobia, which means first you must find the pods of menhaden, mullet, thread herring or the rays.