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Originally Posted by jimmythegreek
thats a river herring, a common alewife that is found all over these parts. U can tell because it has a little yellow under the grey on its back and the spot is usually not there or very faint. The bait we buy which is 90% out of hopatcong is a blueback herring, dont grow as big as the river herring. As Mark B. pointed out, there are restrictions on those fish, dont remember exactly what but its in the NJFW book u get for free. Great bait, sabiki rig a few of em and bring em for bait  |
Jimmy,
The herring from Lake Hop. are the same species, alewives.
Referred to as land locked alewives, they reproduce there, and as you pointed out, do not grow nearly as large as the ocean going bluebacks or alewives.
The only river herring that you can legally possess, are landlocks. The ones that you buy, and the ones that you are allowed to capture from some NJ lakes.
See the link, above.
