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<blockquote data-quote="Pilchard" data-source="post: 5303992" data-attributes="member: 19427"><p>Ladyfish are trash fish unless you are after bait like batten-down said. They were my preferred tarpon bait after dark. Fished live along the shadow line of a bridge. </p><p></p><p>MAN, I miss those eats! When a full grown tarpon eats a 20" live ladyfish off the surface it sounds like somebody threw a cinder block off the top of the bridge.</p><p></p><p>I believe the main reason people dislike catching them is that they are notorious for taking a crap when you are unhooking them. They can really make a mess out of the boat in a hurry. I used to flip them right into the livewell and use a dehooker if I was keeping them or use the dehooker over the gunwale if I was letting them go.</p><p></p><p>One story..and I don't know if there is any truth to it at all… I knew a guy who commercial fished a lot and he would often catch thousands of pounds of ladyfish out of pine island sound. He claimed to have sold them to a distributor that sold them to McDonalds for their fish sandwiches.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pilchard, post: 5303992, member: 19427"] Ladyfish are trash fish unless you are after bait like batten-down said. They were my preferred tarpon bait after dark. Fished live along the shadow line of a bridge. MAN, I miss those eats! When a full grown tarpon eats a 20” live ladyfish off the surface it sounds like somebody threw a cinder block off the top of the bridge. I believe the main reason people dislike catching them is that they are notorious for taking a crap when you are unhooking them. They can really make a mess out of the boat in a hurry. I used to flip them right into the livewell and use a dehooker if I was keeping them or use the dehooker over the gunwale if I was letting them go. One story..and I don’t know if there is any truth to it at all… I knew a guy who commercial fished a lot and he would often catch thousands of pounds of ladyfish out of pine island sound. He claimed to have sold them to a distributor that sold them to McDonalds for their fish sandwiches. [/QUOTE]
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