| Description: The Ballyhoo has an overall silver appearance, with a greenish black back, silver flank and underside and dark fins. The beak of the Ballyhoo is 16 to 20 percent of the body length. It is characterized by a ridge before the eyes, 10 to 13 anal fin rays, a deeply forked caudal fin with larger lower lobe and unscaled anal and dorsal fins. The tip of lower jaw and upper lobe of the caudal fin is orange-red. It has short pectoral fins. The pelvic fins extend past the beginning of the dorsal fin. Ballyhoo is an excellent bait for many game fish. |
