Also I got a bill for $4500 for various repairs /maintenance yesterday that I thought should be about $3k max. I never dispute bills but I disputed this one. 6.5 hours to fix my light bar on the front of my ttop. I could buy a new one and have it installed for that. That was like $700 worth of work alone. 4 hours to install an on board battery charger. $120 an hr isn't a bad rate but they charged me like 36 hours of work and it shouldn't have been near that.
My plan is to get into tuna fishing. It's 80 miles to the Horseshoe Rigs from Ocean Springs. This boat will have an 140 gallon tank. I want to do some live bait chunking for yellowfin tuna. I'm going to have to figure out trolling for pelagics. Wahoo will be high up the list. Then I'm going to need to find some good grouper spots in deeper water. Finally, I'll have the range to get to AJs.
Just have to survive a few more days. It will be like a 2nd fishing season Need the rumored mild and wet September to hold true
First pic shows the route to the horshoe rigs. 2nd pic shows the depth near the rig but you can see the ledge where it turns purple. That’s the drop off. Goes to 3000 feet. Nuts.
Haven’t been fishing near as much with baby two due soon but had this is the time of year I catch bigger fish inshore. I casted my savage gear shrimp near an oyster bar and after a few bumps I caught the oyster bar. I went to start getting the line tight to try to break it free and I felt a thump thump and slack. Dang red slurped it off the oyster bar. Set the hook and it was coming right to me and thought ot was a smaller red. Then it realized it was hooker and started peeling drag. Ended up being a 28in red.
Gump, why don’t you just get the new 28 Freeman? Floats shallow enough to go trout fishing anywhere. Enough room and fuel to pick me up too.
My 2 yr old has been dunking on me all week with the help of my wife. “Dada go fishing” “Dada no fish” “Dada bug bites” 30+ shitty big bites from trying out a new spot last Sunday.
i have only had redfish freshly caught, but snapper ive only tried at restaurants or catered somewhere.
snapper is vastly superior to redfish. There’s a reason the most famous redfish recipe calls for seasoning the shit out of it and cooking it in a pound of butter
Snapper is my go to but there's a redfish special at one of my favorite restaurants tonight. Can't recall ever having it but it's blackened and served over red beans and rice so probably delicious.
Flounder>redfish>trout as far as taste wise for what I catch. I bet that baby Goliath grouper i caught would have been delicious tho
there’s nothing wrong with it, especially if fresh. It’s just not even in my top 10 of what I can catch and eat
Apparently the fish weren't as excited by the cold front and 20+ degree change in temps as I was but it sure was peaceful
Redfish was considered a trash fish for a very long time until Paul Prudhomme came out with his recipe, which essentially would make anything taste good. No sense in keeping any that aren’t near the minimum size limit
Hooked 2, lost 2 First was a dink I half hooked dropping a senko thru the branches of a fallen tree Second I felt the hit but then nothing until about 3 feet away and he's dink and half ass was some how partially hooked but when I went to flip it onto the dock he fell off Short week coming, they better be ready
Hot and windy Worked a brush pile for far too long Finally think I'm hung up so I give it some extra lift and this bad ass mofo looking a loaf of bread shaped like a football largemouth comes slowly sauntering to the surface. I shit myself. Fish is also shitting itself and starts to turn back to the logs. I try to tighten down and steer him away from certain fuckery in the pile and ploooop goes the hook. Fuck. Cold drank and AC time. Stupid fish.
Unfortunately ran into 2 different otters and long stretches of no activity on this little brook trout stream
As my week submarined into the weekend I allowed the thought of fishing to creep into my conscienceness. Predictably the weather app mocked my undeveloped plans and revealed certain rain for the foreseeable future.
A shop that went of business brought some of their remaining stock to today's TU meeting. Bought a Tenkara USA The Rhodo rod for real cheap to try out.
Back 2 back cold fronts, while great for swamp balls, has really tightened mouths up And we've dried up and lost another ft or so of water
Was originally going to help DNR with a brook trout stream restoration last week until they said they had enough people down from GSMNP. So my girls and I went out and checked the upper part of the stream out this morning. The upper part of the stream had been owned privately and the owners had put a pond in. The random fish they'd put in there had escaped over the years and put a hurting on the brook trout population. The land was bought by a trust to be given to the public. They went in and took out the brook trout, removed the dam and are now treating the river to remove the creek chubs, etc. Next they'll put the brook trout back in. Will end up with 4 miles of brook trout stream again.
I lost my PB redfish that was 30”+ all day. Fought it up to my kayak and when I went to grab my net, the knot at the jighead failed
Went and helped with National Hunting and Fishing today, teaching people how to cast a fly rod, mostly kids. We have the lawn trout so we can tie a piece of velco on the fly line and they can "catch a fish".
Leaves are starting to change colors. Found a really dark unique one today. And had a big one break my tippet on the strike.