Spanish Sardine
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| Here's my all-time favorite bait (along with the cigar minnow) for just about everything on the Space Coast! Spanish sardines (Sardinella aurita) are members of the herring family and have a slender body, bluish or greenish back, white belly and very silver sides. They grow to about ten inches - and will fill your bait well with loose scales very quickly. You must have a good water flow to keep them healthy - especially during summer when water temperatures are warmer. Everything loves to eat sardines and they are great bait either alive, dead, whole, cut, trolled or fished on the bottom. They can be caught on Sabiki rigs or with a cast net (3/8 inch mesh) in shallow waters. They are frequently found around piers, reefs, weather bouys etc. Bethel Shoals is a prime hot spot for Spanish Sardines. When you do catch them you should immediately hook one or two on your rods and begin fishing right where you caught them - at least for a little while - because generally there are some predators around feeding on them. Those predator species are generally the fish you’re looking to catch. I don't recommend fishing immediately around the bouys in the summer unless you want to catch barracuda. | |
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This page was last updated January 1, 2004 |
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