Jacksmelt?

What is this?  There were lots in the kelp by the red buoy in HMB.

Yep, that's a jacksmelt.

Yum! 

Those bad boys aren't too bad if you fry em up!


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  I got them in the oven with oil, salt and pepper at 350 degrees.  Trying to figure out how long to cook them.  They were hitting my sabiki right next to the yak before I could turn around from putting the last one in the cooler.  Next time I'm going to bring my bluegill set up with a castmaster.  I bet that would be fun.

Drop 'em back down, that good Hali bait

  I got them in the oven with oil, salt and pepper at 350 degrees.  Trying to figure out how long to cook them.  They were hitting my sabiki right next to the yak before I could turn around from putting the last one in the cooler.  Next time I'm going to bring my bluegill set up with a castmaster.  I bet that would be fun.

Cook em till they are done.

Twenty minutes was perfect, to me, at least.  My wife came home and exclaimed unhappily "What did you do to the fish!?"  She says they should be fried.
  Luckily I saved her a Mackeral  , a rockfish and a red crab, so I was forgiven.

those jacksmelt are decent bait for big fish butts and other preditors

  I got them in the oven with oil, salt and pepper at 350 degrees.  Trying to figure out how long to cook them.  They were hitting my sabiki right next to the yak before I could turn around from putting the last one in the cooler.  Next time I'm going to bring my bluegill set up with a castmaster.  I bet that would be fun.

Oh yeah, they are a blast on ultralight gear.
mackerel and jacksmelt on 6lb gear whiled away many a summer afternoon for me when I was a pier grom.

jacksmelt on 6lb gear whiled away many a summer afternoon for me when I was a pier grom.

Yep same here. Balloon bobber with a couple squid strip baited hooks below led to many a jacksmelt to 21+"  Watch out for worms in the flesh

I'm sure the worms just add taste.

Yup its that time of the year! We fish for them on the shore with surf rods rigged sabiki style below a foam float. 3 hooks, fun as hell to bring in 3 at a time cranking back in slowly. Gets old but I do it at least a couple times a year.

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