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03-31-2018, 03:03 PM #1Senior Member
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any bait around the pier yet?
Just wondering on the live bait catching if any is available yet?
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A few days have passed since I tried, but when I tried a Sabiki I had no luck. I did not try yesterday as it did not look promising at all.
We just need some dang warm weather.ironman172 and eym_sirius like this.People are shocked to see sharks in the water around here.
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All the down lights working will help also.
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03-31-2018, 11:06 PM #4We are there! Let's go fishing!!
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All I've seen so far is a few squid, some large glass minnows (anchovies), and bunches of silver perch ("sweet trout")...
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Today on the pier a guy offered me some dead and half dried out LYs as bait.
I was intrigued cause I hadn't seen any 'bait fish' other than small Pinfish, White trout and Croaker.
Jeff Bearden stepped over and said they caught some LYs on sabikis yesterday too.Pier#r and ironman172 like this.Ragnar Benson:
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04-01-2018, 09:44 AM #6We are there! Let's go fishing!!
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Winter is only slowly releasing it's chilly grip ;-)
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New comer to pier fishing. Coming down 4-17-18. Confused. What are LYs? I thought that was short for Looney jigs? Any help appreciated. This is a great forum and thanks to all who contribute!
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LY=Scaled Sardine
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LY is slang for alewife which is a northern Atlantic baitfish which looks somewhat similar. That’s what I understand anyway. Someone correct if I have it wrong.
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People USE "LY" (pronounced "EL WY") to describe, like CarlF said, a scaled sardine. The name comes from a corruption/mispronunciation of a misidentification. It's not an alwife, but the term dates back to before people could just look these things up online. For no good reason (other than common language) , even though almost everyone knows better, folks keep calling the scaled sardine by its colloquial name. Maybe since the pier is a "fishing and education pier", they can put up big picture-signs of the scaled sardine, with all of the scientific information about the species, since the species figures so prominently into The Gulf Shores Pier Fishing Experience.
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