Mississippi Silverside

Fish in the Bay – Special Report: Lower South Bay Broodstock Trawls, Jan 2025 – Return to Oz.

Longfin Smelt Broodstock trawls continued over numerous days through January, February, and even into the first weeks of March.  I...

Fish in the Bay – February 2025, Part 2. Bottom Fishes & Bugs in the Valley of the Heart’s Delight.

This is the rest of the February report – Fishes, bugs, plus a few other items that didn’t fit into...

Fish in the Bay – January 2025. Crappie Shaduary!

January 2025 was a very disappointing month for Longfin Smelt.  Longfin spawning season started well enough.  November and December numbers...

Fish in the Bay – Merry Fishmas, 2024!

Merry Fishmas everyone!  I fell horribly behind in my fish reporting, so I am combining Fishmas with the November blog. ...

Fish in the Bay – September 2024. Upstream Invasions.

A belated September report … The overall raw fish count increased, but this was not good news.  Almost 50% of...

Fish in the Bay – September 2023, Summer’s End.

A belated September fish report:  I missed September trawls, but Sami, Niko, and Janai sent me some photos. I got...

Fish in the Bay – August 2023, Starry, Starry Summer!

The big story for August is that another 464 baby Starries were caught.  When added to all the Starries caught...

Fish in the Bay – August 2022, Bat Ray Bonanza.

A slightly belated report from August trawls.  At the time of this report, we were not yet aware of Red...

Fish in the Bay – November 2021: Winter Fish Transition.

Happy New Year 2022. I am thinking about 2021 in review, but at the same time, I am still catching...

Fish in the Bay – October 2021: Longfins Returned. Non-native Silversides & Shimofuris were still out of control.

Trawl map. The results from October trawls were a mix of good and bad news on several levels.   Bay-side...

Fish in the Bay – September 2021: Operation Guadalupe, Part 3.

Operation Guadalupe trawl stations. Operation Guadalupe. Continued.  For this third and last installment, we surveyed the upstream tidal end of...

Fish in the Bay – August 2021: Red Ceramium, Boogers, a Nudibranch, and other Summertime Oddities.

Trawl map. We are continuing to experience a very good Anchovy year.  The 2021 total is on track to possibly...

Fish in the Bay – November 2020: Cold Snap – Winter Arrives.

Trawl map. November trawls confirmed that winter arrived in Lower South Bay:  Total fish counts dropped from over 7,900 in...

Fish in the Bay – October 2020: Anchovy Spawning & Silverside Tsunami Increase.

Trawl map annotated with Anchovies and Silversides. Anchovy spawning locations are circled in pink. Two major trends continued in October: ...