Re: {Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} American or Hickory?

The underbite is the best way.  You can't just go by the size as you can occasionally catch some very large hickories.  I caught one back in March that was bigger than most of the Americancs I have caught this year.

You can also generally tell pretty quickly after hooking them though.  Hickories will often come to the surface pretty quickly after being hooked whereas americans rarely do. 

On Wednesday, April 19, 2017 at 11:47:54 AM UTC-4, Rob Snowhite wrote:

Very nice American. 

Hickory have an underbite. 

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On Apr 19, 2017, at 11:37 AM, Anthony Olson <anthony...@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm sure there are a bunch of posts about this but just wanted to get a quick answer. Fished fletchers last night from about 6-830 and caught well over 30 fish with the first one of the night being the biggest. Is this an American shad and what's the easiest way to identify (I'm assuming it is more than just the size of them?) 

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