My wife is pretty cool, she lets me hang 'em in the living room. She loves to fish too.
Albacore 45#
White Sea Bass 50#
Calico Bass 8#
Leather Back Grouper 22#
Albacore 45#
White Sea Bass 50#
Calico Bass 8#
Leather Back Grouper 22#
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A thread about fishing.....just for the halibut.....
- Thread starter hal9000
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Since we're shifting over to bragging rights, here's a couple of mine. 
Calico 10 LB. (26") caught at Starlight, Catalina on fresh dead squish. Crumby pic of the mount.
White Seabass 52.25 LB. (55") on BAC's certified scale. Caught on 20# test with live sardine 1 mile off of RJ's on the sh!t pipe.
Calico 10 LB. (26") caught at Starlight, Catalina on fresh dead squish. Crumby pic of the mount.
White Seabass 52.25 LB. (55") on BAC's certified scale. Caught on 20# test with live sardine 1 mile off of RJ's on the sh!t pipe.
nice steve!
We've had a continuation of a nice calico bite down here. My son is getting better at throwing swimbaits and he got this nice surprise last time taking him.
no tuna yet since my buddy's boat is down and I'm not exactly excited about getting on a cattleboat with covid right now.
We've had a continuation of a nice calico bite down here. My son is getting better at throwing swimbaits and he got this nice surprise last time taking him.
no tuna yet since my buddy's boat is down and I'm not exactly excited about getting on a cattleboat with covid right now.
Dude...we get blues here, and they'll aggressively hit surface plugs at all times of day.
lot of the good spots are at the point breaks I surf.
keep the gear rigged up and when the schools move through hitting bait I'll come in, grab a couple, put in rock pools and continue the surf.
get a feed to bring home and a surf.
Mulloway are a prize (White Sea bass).
This forty pounder hit a large plug retrieved dead slow in shallow water on the top of a full moon tide at the base of a local point where I'd seen mullet staging up.
Who knows whats up with the best trout fishing? I'm over the flashy stuff, belly fulla ankimo and back to heart, trout is the fish of kings. If kings are just me. Which they aren't. But kings eat shlt fish i'd imagine, you know how rich folk are. I don't. I've never met a king. Met Tank Abbot once.
Gettin' some davy brown on the rainy times, exploiting my poison oak immunity, but whats up here in dry summer time?
Gettin' some davy brown on the rainy times, exploiting my poison oak immunity, but whats up here in dry summer time?
Haven't been doin' much. Been kind of sorting out gear for the mullet run so not really fishing the correct thing, just getting a rig and making sure it casts and cranks and the drag is fine. It's gone kind of dry, whereas back in June and early month, it was raining like clockwork every day. Also quite a bit of Southerly which has dirtied up the water in addition to making it windy, currenty, and wet for light tackle lure casting. I have some ideas for that though.
But if you're talking about spotted seatrout in North Florida, right now, I'd try early/late with whatever I liked to fish with. Trout are good about hitting lures and will hit live bait as well. Maybe try any bridge you can fish from around a slack tide, or the creeks in the middle of the falling tide, or deep holes at low tide.
Those could easily be 'release mounts' where you come up with species, length, and circumference and they make the mount. Not sure if the taxidermist responsible for these posters' stuff wants or was supplied with the fish in question. They might have released it into the cooler, measured it at the dock, and ate it.
Since your avatar is Gardner Minshew, I might assume you are talking about seatrout in North Florida. If Davy Brown means brown trout and poison oak is something you're running into hiking, I have no idea.
But if you're talking about spotted seatrout in North Florida, right now, I'd try early/late with whatever I liked to fish with. Trout are good about hitting lures and will hit live bait as well. Maybe try any bridge you can fish from around a slack tide, or the creeks in the middle of the falling tide, or deep holes at low tide.
If you are not a fisherman, you don't get it, nothing wrong with that.
Just like a surfer, you would like a picture of yourself on a bomb to show off on the wall.
Once again nothing wrong with that.
You have no idea how much fish, me and the wife and all my friends and family eat on an annual basis.
Wifey and I are headed up to Alaska in 3 weeks to stock the freezer once again.
Those fish I posted on the wall are special. It's just one of those things.
Like I said, If you don't fish, you don't get it.
Keeno, help me out here!
Not skin mounts.
Nobody does that anymore.
Only one that is a replica, the Calico.
The others were hot sand molds taken from the actual fish I caught.
Sorry, the meat is lost.
Lyon's & O'Haver down in SD have the molds of my fish for anyone that wants a reproduction.
It cost a bit more, but I wanted a mount of my fish. Unfortunately, I just found out that L&O closed shop.
With out a doubt, THE BEST taxi's in the world.
I am so stoked to have these mounts
Funny story...
When the Thomas Fire came knocking on the door a few years ago, the first things I put in the boat and trailer were my fish mounts along with all my tackle and surf boards, then important papers and photos.
Funny where people's priorities rest
hahah, no need for the jab pal.
Fished my whole life. Fed my family and neighbours since I was 10 years old. Worked on boats all over the Pacific.
There's two things that are never out of my car: surfboards and fishing gear.
Just a different culture, I guess.
My neighbor just sent a scout by to tell me the cows are on the way down to the beach from inland via the river bank. We’ve had two nights of rain and he says the river is up, will break out on the next rain, like tonight. He’s been doing this for 50+ years and is a good judge of when snook season is gonna start. I hope he’s right.
going left and fishing snook off the beach sounds about like heaven to me. You keeping well El.O?
What is it about the rain that makes snook season start? Is it just fish previously dispersed on surf and nearshore structure concentrating at the river mouths, or is it fish stuck in the lagoons/rivers coming out?
if its anything like around here snook would come in to feed on bait washed out the river mouth.