Fishing?

[jamesngalveston]

hat muskie looks alot like our spanish mackerel, are more like our king mackerel...
my biggest king was 29 lbs.

 

[jamesngalveston]

we have had a real warm front move in so the flounder run is at dead stop.
next week, cold front is coming and flounder run will progress.

 

[pjd]

got back late last night..
fished thursday evening, friday morning, friday evening, and sat morning.
caught some peacock bass in the 12 lb range, and about 1000 black bass in about the 3 lb range...
peacock bass are slower to come back from over fishing.
the black bass are coming back strong..
nice 3 day trip.
in january im going to florida for the 400 lb groupers.

Where in Florida are you going?

 

[Boatboy24]

got back late last night..
fished thursday evening, friday morning, friday evening, and sat morning.
caught some peacock bass in the 12 lb range, and about 1000 black bass in about the 3 lb range...
peacock bass are slower to come back from over fishing.
the black bass are coming back strong..
nice 3 day trip.
in january im going to florida for the 400 lb groupers.

Pics or it didn't happen.

 

[ShelleyDickison]

My very first speckled trout and I couldn't even keep it.

 

[ShelleyDickison]

And for part 2. My first Red Drum I couldn't keep. I see a theme happening.

 

[jamesngalveston]

shelly, both are pretty in color and look healthy...
the bigger the bait, the bigger the fish.
lol
i use croaker for my big specs. in winter
and 3 to 4 inch crabs for my reds....in winter
and 3 inch gulp live new penny in the summer for both species
and the same for flounder in the winter...

 

[LoneStarLori]

James, maybe you need to take Shelley and I out for a lesson or two. Seems we both have the same luck.

 

[jamesngalveston]

Lori, you fish from the jetties, shore, are do you have a boat.
If you have a boat i can pin point some gps cordinates to you...

 

[jamesngalveston]

forgot....this time of the year the sheepshead are in big numbers.
sheep head is really a red drum (red fish) with black and white stripes..
all drum are the same when it comes to texture,taste,and white meat.
they are excellent to eat, easy to catch.......

 

[RegionRat]

forgot....this time of the year the sheepshead are in big numbers.
sheep head is really a red drum (red fish) with black and white stripes..
all drum are the same when it comes to texture,taste,and white meat.
they are excellent to eat, easy to catch.......

In St Pete Sheep head are found all year round. But, in winter months they are most plentiful

RR

 

[jamesngalveston]

yea..thinking about it, i may go get a few tomorrow fillet them up and fry.
I have a bunch of fillets, Ill save a for a big fish fry.Ill go get some fresh..
I try to keep the ones between 4 and 8 lbs..none bigger

 

[DirtyDawg10]

Haven't put up a fishing pic in a while so here's a Northern Pike I caught back at the end of the summer up in Vermont on Lake Champlain. This is an average size fish from up there. Not a huge fish for that location but still a fun catch!

 

[jamesngalveston]

Nice fish...what it weigh about 9 lbs.
cant tell by the pic angle...looks very healthy...

 

[DirtyDawg10]

Not sure. I didn't weigh it. Judging from others I have caught, I would say around 8 or 9 pounds.

 

[ShelleyDickison]

We finally got a speckled trout we could keep. After about catching 3 dozen of the little suckers ( that's my word, not my husbands . )

 

[jamesngalveston]

we had some good spec fishing last week, and some flounder...now with this cold front, im sure the flounder will head the open ocean, and specs will slow down to a crawl, the best thing about the front, the reds will turn on with some rough water.
do you have redfish there shelly are black drum.

 

[Arne]

Short sleeves and warm weather, fish in the boat. I'll trade you for long johns and coveralls. Will be a while before fishing will happen again here. Mite be able to drill a hole in the ice and catch a few but I think I will stay by the wood stove. Arne.

 

[ShelleyDickison]

Second day of speck fishing and I finally caught one. We got 2 for the day b

 

[ShelleyDickison]

do you have redfish there shelly are black drum.

We have redfish and black drum. It's hard catching redfish to size. Closest I came to a keeper was 15 1/2 inches. Just a bit shy of legal. :-(