True enough but a few of the places I fish would be near the mouths of rivers but still in the ocean proper. So if I jig up a few herring knowing if they are ocean herring or river herring about to head upriver would be important.
My experience tells me that Hickory Shad look dramatically different from herring. I am not sure of the difference between American and Hickory Shad but the shad I have caught have a very large hinged mouth unlike Herring that have a regular mouth. Don't know if this helps.
I was fishing with Crafty last year and he caught a Hickory.It was a pretty cool thing to see and was big at least twice the size of the one in the photo.
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