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Goggle-eye (bigeye scad)
Photo: SEFSC Pascagoula Laboratory; Collection of Brandi Noble, NOAA/NMFS/SEFSC., Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Selar crumenophthalmus · also bigeye scad

How to catch Goggle-eye in Florida

Goggle-eye feed in 0–0°F water and bite best at 0–0°F.

Bait · in the book, no points

About

The big-eyed scad of the South Florida bridges at night: the sailfish bait, worth its weight in the winter, sold by the dozen at the marinas at dawn.

How to fish it

Sabiki under the bridge lights and around the anchored boats at night; keep them in a big, round, dark well.

What it eats

the Sabiki at night

Getting it, rigging it

Getting it

Sabiki at night under the bridge lights and around anchored boats.

Rigging it

Bridled through the eye sockets for sailfish and kingfish, kite-fished or slow-trolled.

What it's for

What to fish it with

the sizes that fish it
Hook#8–#1
Braid10–15 lb

The rule

not confirmed here

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