Glad I saw this thread......................haven't been fishing in forever, but certainly not out of losing interest. Y'all need to come up here and do the world's best smallmouth fishing.
Glad I found this thread- I mostly freshwater a fish a private pond on my hunting land (bass, bream, catfish, sacalait).... but I've been fishing all over and love it. I'm going to the Florida Keys next week (been a few times before) but I've scheduled a backwater fishing trip with a buddy- we're going to go after tarpon mainly, but might go after bone fish, or permit- really told the guide we just want to catch fish. So I'm really looking forward to it. Depending on the weather / seas we may take the boat out another day and go look for some yellow tail snapper, or mahi-mahi
i went in the lagoon last saturday hoping to find some on topwater but i coudlnt get any to strike. BamaNug its going to be extremely windy tomorrow. but if youd like to give us a report...please go for it.
Pompano - If you haven't eaten fresh Pomps, you are missing out. Just a great, great meal. Probably my favorite to catch on UL tackle as well. Take a cooler to the beach, catch sand fleas and bar fish. Fresh Tuna Grouper Snapper Cobia
if anything, I would have assumed an issue with snapper not grouper. show me your list, so I may point and laugh.
better fish that can be caught off of Florida: snook snapper (yellowtail, mangrove, and red) pompano tripletail hogfish tuna wahoo edit: triggerfish additionally, there are species not available wild in florida that I prefer.
sorry, that's a matter of taste. I cannot imagine, however, that many would choose flounder over grouper.
it's probably next tier down with grouper and cobia for me to be honest, should remove. still, the great majority of those fish are preferred by most native floridians I know. I have friends who mock people that order grouper.
triggerfish is interesting because many think it is the best in the world, and many think it is a tier 2 fish. I think it is better than grouper, but same tier. scamp, meh.
Yea we've all but canceled the trip due to the weather, not looking good. Hopefully I can still hit up some piers and shallow water while I'm down there. Are the cobia still running down there? None of my friends live there anymore and haven't heard any updates from this season.
yeah, but you have a lot of cunty friends. haven't seen snook on a menu in a while, and tripletail and hogfish are pretty rare too. in jax, the fish I mentioned, sans tuna, are more prevalent in our waters than the ones you listed. perhaps my tastes have isomething to do with that.
were we only discussing readily available fish at bonefish grill? I thought we were discussing the best tasting fish. regardless, I'm going to continue to call grouper 'tourist fish'
I agree that there are a lot of fish better than grouper, but snapper isn't one. And, I think you'd have a tough time finding any serious fisherman that would disagree.
Scamp is the king of the grouper. While it is indeed a type of grouper, you're never going to see it listed as just "grouper."
I know plenty of serious fisherman who do. seeing as how my uncle has been a guide and charter fisherman for the last 40 years, I've lived and fished Florida my entire life, I was in the fishing club at FSU and fished practically every tournament in the region, etc.
Killed the trout out on the Sabine jetties this morning.. Texas / Louisiana border.. Every cast with chartreuse tail
Wasn't thinking about yellow tail. Admittedly, I only fish in the gulf/panhandle. But, from my experience, red snapper is treated/considered pretty much the same way y'all are talking about grouper.
Anybody like sheepshead? Grew up catching the fuck out of those in the canal and eating them at my grandparents.