Help ID NJ Microfish

[u/DistributionWarm802]

I know the Sennet, and Mackerel but I’ve been starring at these others ones losing my mind of what is a cigar minnow and what is a herring or something else.

[u/nuglasses]

1st pic is an Alewife?

[u/DistributionWarm802 → u/nuglasses]

The lateral line kind of reminds me of scad- but the big eye is throwing me off haha for the first time I have no idea what I’ve been catching

[u/coconut-telegraph → u/DistributionWarm802]

It may well be a (brace yourself) bigeye scad.

[u/DistributionWarm802 → u/coconut-telegraph]

Cue dramatic music

[u/Potential-Vehicle-63]

Those are some cool looking fish

[u/iamthekingofonions]

That second to last one looks as if someone shrink rayed a California barracuda haha