Leave it to a redfish
 

Not sure what kind eel this is but our reds had a bunch of these in them today

speckled worm eel

A nasty one that's for sure !!


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Ribbon fish? I've seen ribbon fish small and long... Let me see if I can find a pic


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BL is covered in them bastards. I caught a big one with shaw a long time ago. Prolly almost 2ft


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This not a ribbon fish, the body is solid round and head is small and flat not thin and long

I hear at.... Wouldn't this crush redfish and prolly trout too? It was in the pics when I looked up ribbon fishAttachment 59519


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How long were the eels? Seems like some bass plastics worms would be killer if they're feeding on eels.

Vudu eels!!!

I fished BL yesterday before the front and I think those dang reds would have eaten my shoe they were so aggressive!

Norton Sand eels come alive.

Can't tell from that pic, would need to see some fins but could be american eels which are pretty incredible fish. They all spawn in the Sargasso Sea and then spend most their lives in freshwater (our only catadramous fish, opposite of anadramous like salmon), even the ones you catch way up in the middle of the country made that trip from thousands of miles away avoiding predators like fish and coonazzes and Asian fish markets:grinpimp:

Eels
 

I have seen the same eels in redfish several times over the years... Always at this time of yr. sometimes as many as 3-4 eels per redfish..

Sand eels. Brown top of the body and tannish/white underbelly. Those little suckers come alive at night in the marshes.

Really? Elaborate... Sounds interesting


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Bow fished our marsh in Holly Beach one year. We had shot a few reds early in the night and as we'd put them on the deck, they would spit up fresh eaten eels. Most of the water was low and chocolate milk that night. Came up to one of our boat trails that was a lil deeper than the rest of em, and when the light hit the water, it was crystal clear and reds and eels were everywhere!!!! These eels were from 2 inches long to 18 inches. All were identical and couldn't swim real well. They just kinda went with the tide. We ended up shooting our 25 reds and a few drum, and every single fish had eaten those eels. Prime example of nature adapting to what's offered at that time. I know a Norton sand eel tapers down in size, but all of these were the same shape across their whole body. Which in my opinion, I think a Lil John mimics these creatures more than a Norton does. I have more faith in a Lil John over a Norton as well.

Makes a lot of sense about the time of year, cause a hard front had just passed and it was chilly when we bowfished that night...

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They look like juvenile sharks.

X2 on a lil john. What bout a senko!!!


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I thought it could be a sand eel but never seen a live sand eel

Anyone have pick?

https://lh5.ggpht.com/74W3tzOVAhFLMb...vshlFmeOA=s580

again, speckled worm eel.

Looks like a winner!


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Interesting for sure hmmmm:confused:

I have been looking through some books and can't find anything on a 'sand eel' in the gulf, the only ones are in the northeast Atlantic (called 'sand lances') but thats just how common names go though (A white perch down here is totally different than one in the north). And not all 'eels' are true eels, could clear it up if we could see the top fins. With what I can see my $.02 I think they are just american eels in the young stage coming in from the sea. The life cycle is that they come in as 'glass eels' (I guess to camoflage them from predators) and once they get to an estuary they begin to grow and change colors (at a young age they are brown on top and light on bottom so kinda goes with what the previous poster was saying about the brown on top and white on bottom?). They just hang out in the sand getting ready for their travels upstream (maybe why they are sand eels?)

young ones on the bottom kinda fit the bill

what was this captioned as? American eel? sand eel? give a scientific name?

I googled 'ashley tubbs eel; and got dis pic:D

That is it

Looks like a good fit on Captcoonazzty

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Yes, that is the exact eel that we saw that night bowfishing. Those little jokers were everywhere.