For fun fishing, don’t skip skipjacks

The most notable change in the TWRA’s 2013 fishing regulations is a first-ever limit on river herring, commonly known as skipjacks.

There is now a daily limit of 100 and a possession limit of 200.

The skipjack was once considered a nuisance fish by many fisherman because when a school moved in they beat game fish to lures and quickly depleted the minnow supply of bait fishermen.

In tailwaters below dams, schools of skipjacks often number in the thousands.

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