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Amberjack
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Black Sea Bass
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Gag
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Description: basic silvery color, with 5 or 6 distinct vertical black bands on sides, not always the same on both sides; prominent teeth, including incisors, molars, and rounded grinders; no barbels on lower jaw; strong and sharp spines on dorsal and anal fins.
Catching them!
Porgies are bottom feeders, the best strategies to catch them are bottom and float rigs fished around barnacle-encrusted structures. They do not bite readily on artificial lures so anglers should use live bait such as fiddler crabs, barnacles, oysters, clams or shrimp, sometimes used with sliding sinker rigs.During winter, porgies can be found along deeper artificial reefs at depths
between 35 and 60 feet. porgies have a very light bite and are renowned as
bait stealers, and thus can be a frustrating species to fish. We supply the bait and tackle!
Where found: INSHORE species around oyster bars, seawalls and in tidal creeks; moves NEARSHORE in late winter and early spring for spawning, gathering over debris, artificial reefs, and around navigation markers.
Size: common to 8 pounds, can go up to 15lbs. The North Carolina record is 13lbs 2oz (1987)
Remarks: feeds on mollusks and crustaceans such as fiddler crabs and barnacles; famed nibblers, prompting the saying that "anglers must strike just before they bite."
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