Official Fishing Thread. Just a bunch of outdoorsy ballers.

And people don't bleed them out quickly enough.

 

I swear if I'm ever in a last meal type situation, it's going to be fried mullet and swamp cabbage.

 

Snook is the best, but haven't been able to eat it in a couple years. Smoke the mackeral and make fish dip out of it and it's pretty awesome. Flounder is too fishy IMO.

 

There are some deep water grouper (1000' +) that are way better than scamp

 

Whole flounder with lump crabmeat stuffing

 

Flounder too fishy? Flounder is goat. Fresh mullet is great too.

I honestly do not know if they're running right now or not. I havent heard anything in the last few weeks. Inshore fishing is on fire though. It should be picking up again this weekend (wind ) now that the post-spawn is over.

 

nm

 

there's a small craft advisory in Tampa tomorrow, doesn't look good on taking the yak out. Ordered a light for night fishing, should be here next week sometime. I am excite.

 

New to TMB. Any Bass fisherman in here?

 

fish is probably the most dedicated

 

I know, I'm one of the only people I know who thinks that. Just doesn't do it for me like snook, trout, redfish, grouper, etc.

 

caught my first snook yesterday, p small at only 20" but it game my little 2500 Daiwa reel hell.



and the day before that I caught my first shark out of my kayak... on a plastic shrimp



and this fucker right here has been slaying speckled trout for me, just attach about a 3 ft leader with a plastic DOA shrimp and it's on.

 

Congrats on the snook. Goat fish.

Cajun thunders do light the specks up

 

Wish I wasn't stuck in ATL and could fish somewhere.

Miss fishing the Chesapeake Bay

 

3 foot leader seems excessive.

 

Want to keep the shrimp close to bottom. Cajun thunder is all about depth control.

 

I've used the cajun thunder before, just not with that much leader.

 

perhaps I was a little ambitious on leader length, my current one is around 2 ft. I don't think it matters a whole lot though as long as you leave it long enough for good movement and visibility.

 

if it worked, then maybe you're doing something right, and I will try it next time. Next trip for me is father's day, as I told the wife it's what I wanted. I imagine I won't get that option as my child gets older.

 

I adjust mine to the depth of water I plan to fish. I assumed he was in 3 feet of water.

 

you fish snook alley at all, tandn? we were thinking of heading there for the next trip.

 

no I havent, but they kill em there.

 

probably going on fathers day if you care to join.

 

perhaps, I will see if I can.

 

Never been a huge fan of using popping corks for trout/reds.

 

nice day on the water

 

My niece's boyfriend bought a new toy.



He took my nephew and I out for few hours this afternoon at the local city lake. The 16 year old schooled me, caught six to my two and landed this one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5p-7hRrEBz4

6 lbs 7 oz on his favorite shallow diving crankbait.

 

So jealous. Have not been on salt in ages. Went a couple times last year and got skunked. Locked in orlando.

 

Nephew has been killing it lately.

 

22" Red I caught yesterday on a Terror Eyes jig. Let him go because I didn't bring a cooler.

 

16-20" in Tampa, just south of Howard Franklin off Culbreath flats. On shrimp and small pinfish. Rain last night cooled things off and a good outgoing tide this morning.

 

Also got his 16" Jack Crevalle on a bigger pinfish. A lot more fun fighting this one than any of the trout.

 

Poles are for wussies, use spears.

 

gotta move back to Tallahassee, we'd catch 50 trout between 16-20" in a day easy.

 

800 pound mako shark doing backflips on a flyrod

 

Bass fishing sucked over the weekend. Biggest topped out at 17 inches.

 

Starting this company figured I'd post here.

www.southcoastapp.com





http://www.facebook.com/pages/Southcoast-Apparel/400327563348467

 

You need better photos of your 50 dollar polos.

 

Caught about 14 Spanish Mackerel and 1 Tuna over the weekend.

Used a few of the Mackerel to get three Barracudas on the line but every single one of them got off.

 

nice tuna, but why are you keeping that many mackerel? They aren't that good to eat at all.

 

we cooked them that night in the beach house a few hours later after letting them soak in some Italian Dressing. It was pretty damn good.

 

Mackeral is real good if you eat it fresh. If not, gotta smoke it for fish dip.

 

We always kept a few macks for the chum bucket.

 

Mackerel is disgusting as hell. Also, is that a bonita or a blackfin tuna?

 

looks like tuna to me.

 

to me it looks like a bonita to me