Yes I think that's more likely, your Pic looks just like what I was seeing for a month or two they were quite thick at this beach. Seen from top down the head looks almost blocky with distinctive bulges at each side for the eyes.
I'm still steep in the learning curve on the beach.
I think so but I was mostly looking down on them from a top view and the eyes bulged out on the sides, they would flash or turn when startled and they looked like the pics. I need to tie some up with grey thread around the heads vs olive.
Thanks for pics
Last summer and early fall on one beach I fished regularly I was surrounded by large schools of a type of baitfish very slender with bulbous heads/eyes don't know if they were sandlance or? The Herons were lined up chowing down every morning. An attempt at some imitations from memory, the...
I'd be up for something like this I've got a drift boat stashed over in the canyon and have been rowing DB's and rafts continuously since the mid 90's all over the place.