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• Kokosing Lover Posts: 1,158 Officer

  May 2021 #2

  You can find them in the deep side channels around Fort D at night.  However, they will all be small and skinny; we just don't get the big fat ones around here.  Technically they will be "halfbeaks" and not ballyhoo; ballyhoo is a particular species of halfbeak.

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• noelg11892 Posts: 319 Deckhand

  May 2021 #3

  Got it! I’ll try to get on em. I see tarpon hitting half beaks on the bridges at night and ballyhoo flies get em going, so I wanted to try the real thing

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• Cabowabo72 Long Boat KeyPosts: 34 Deckhand

  May 2021 #4

  Those maybe tiny needle fish getting busted on

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• clarosa Posts: 942 Officer

  May 2021 #5

  Like will said this time of year there are a lot of the half beaks which are a tad smaller, and a little more round than a ballyhoo. I have caught ballyhoo in the past while chumming for cobia on the grassflats in Hudson. Was catching them on hook and line on little bits of shrimp under a float. They aren't common though.

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