Caught these today

[FLboy3]

Just off Bayport west of Spring Hill, Fl. Spotted sea Trout. Fun to catch and good to eat. 19" to 23"
http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee72/FLboy3_2007/Mattspics199.jpg

[koolj]

no doubt .a good to eat fresh as anything you can catch.real fun to catch as well.just watch out for the bite while trying to dehook as well...were you using plastics or mirolures

[Shakespeare]

Nice!!!

[FLboy3]

I was useing white with red head mirolures to catch most of them. I think I caught one or two on a green back mirolure. Dehooking is fun when they are thrashing around with the lure and 3 treble hooks tangled up in the net. One actually thrashed around and hooked me in the ankle with two hooks and then thrashed around some more and pulled them out.OOOUCH. I have to learn to be more carefull with those bad boys. They are strong once you get them in the boat.

[Willie]

Way to go, the only fishin I'll be doing is ice fishing....................... 010 010

[o2bfishn]

Willie,

I used to ice fish all winter long, loved it. 003 Still got all my stuff, just can't use it down here. 004


o2bfishn

[Dave]

Real purdy trout FLboy 013 Please keep the Florida fishing reports coming. I'd like to pull my CS to the Sunshine State some day.

I’ve used MirrOlures with only the treble hook left on the tail, with the barbs of the hook bent down, to make unhooking toothy bluefish a simple matter of dropping the fish in the bottom of the boat, where the hook would fall out as the fish flopped. Not suggesting you fish for the tasty trout with only one hook but you won’t lose a fish with the barbs bend down so long as you don’t leave any slack in your line – which is fishing rule #1 anyway. The hook removal is super fast and as an added benefit, if you should stick yourself with one of the barbless hooks and it sinks in past the (bent down) barb, it’s no big deal.


Ice fishing, eigh? Northern Minnesota, winters of ’79 thru ’82, driving a mile or two offshore, looking over a sea of baron ice, in search of “just the right spot”. Drilling a hole with a hand-operated auger through 36” deep ice. Sitting on a 5-gallon bucket over a 6” hole. Static temperature 20 below with typical wind-chill of 60 below. Body covered with so many layers of wool I could barely move. Must scoop the skim-ice off the hole every 10 seconds or less or the hole would freeze over solid, within a very few minutes. Still would freeze shut within an hour or two, as the 6” fishing hole became smaller and smaller. Gotta cut another hole. Witnessing a lively fish flash frozen, on its first flop, after being thrown out on the ice - hard as an ice cube. Always frozen in a bent (flopping) shape, with a healthy layer of frost on its skin, within a single minute of exposure. Storing the “whole” fish in lidded buckets and keeping them in the unheated, unattached garage for (sometimes) weeks, rather than use up the limited capacity of the home freezer. Thawing the fish in the refrigerator for 2 days before cleaning them. That’s the kind of ice fishing I remember, and long to relive – aaaaaaaaaaaah, the good ‘ol days… 001

Dave

[1967JRD]

Just off Bayport west of Spring Hill, Fl. Spotted sea Trout. Fun to catch and good to eat. 19" to 23"
http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee72/FLboy3_2007/Mattspics199.jpg


Nice looking trout. I am always fishing in that area but never seem to have the luck you are!
Be careful though, I believe you are over limit & oversize.

In fact we were out there all night last night and wound up with nothing more than a few garbage fish. Sight fished around all those islands due south of the Bayport pier and managed to see a couple of nice Reds, but they had lockjaw. The fog rolled in around midnight and you couldn't see 25 feet in front of you.

I did manage to catch something I never have before, a 30" + Alligator Gar. Caught him free lining cut bait during the slack tide around midnight.
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w21/jdasch/100_4503_1024.jpg

[FLboy3]

Hey 1967JRD, that looks like something that came out of the weeki wachee river. It looks like a fresh water garr. Not sure. We caught the trout about 5 miles offshore from the last bayport marker. Theres a tripod out there called the north rack and a couple of marked rocks. There was 2 of us on board. Myself and my brother. The slot is 15-20" at 5 a day with 1 keeper over 20". Five of those are between 19-20" and 2 are over 20". We could have landed 3 more in the slot to max out our limit for the 2 of us. Beleive me that was a good day for us also. I'v been back to the same place twice since and caught nothing but blues.

[1967JRD]

Hey 1967JRD, that looks like something that came out of the weeki wachee river. It looks like a fresh water garr. Not sure. We caught the trout about 5 miles offshore from the last bayport marker. Theres a tripod out there called the north rack and a couple of marked rocks. There was 2 of us on board. Myself and my brother. The slot is 15-20" at 5 a day with 1 keeper over 20". Five of those are between 19-20" and 2 are over 20". We could have landed 3 more in the slot to max out our limit for the 2 of us. Beleive me that was a good day for us also. I'v been back to the same place twice since and caught nothing but blues.


I have heard people talk about North Rack, but can't recall if I've been there. (you have any numbers you'd share for it?) We were fishing O'Connell Rock which is SW of Bayports last marker and NNW of Hernandos tripod. Usually do pretty well there but the weather was just terrible yesterday. Wound up inside Bayport channel east of the pier and nailed a keeper Spec on a live ballyhoo but I think it was pure luck. The rest of the day was very quiet.

[koolj]

Nice catch - the trout are still doing well in the Morehead City area as well - I just don't have the time to go after them right now

[1967JRD]

I just don't have the time to go after them right now


What the hell man??? You need to rethink your priorities!!!! ;D

[koolj]

I just don't have the time to go after them right now


What the hell man??? You need to rethink your priorities!!!! ;D

I agree but the bank expects me to pay bills and I can't catch enuff trout to get them caught up

[1967JRD]

I just don't have the time to go after them right now


What the hell man??? You need to rethink your priorities!!!! ;D

I agree but the bank expects me to pay bills and I can't catch enuff trout to get them caught up



LOL, I hear ya man. I hate banks myself. I borrow money and they charge me 9%. I give them money to use (our deposits) and they pay me back 1.5%! Rat Bastids!