Fish pics ( everybody )

[Blak bart]

long day and only got 3 keepers.....2 mutton snappers and a turbit !! Nothing special but got dinner !! Also caught and released a shark and a Bonita!!

 

[smallfoot]

Turbit...lost me there

 

[Blak bart]

Well...its also called ocean triggerfish...or ocean tally !! Very hard to clean with leather like skin. Meat is white and very good. It is a very firm fish !!

 

[worldtalker]

HOT sunrise fishing this morning,was pretty hot in the sun so we move back into the shade, it was tropical. I always ask Mike who is going to catch the first one,"Today I am".We unloaded set up rod holders,baited up,flung in out and waited.I really don't know what kind of grapes these are,but,they make you pucker up more than lemons.They look like miniature concord....






I got the only two.





GOD Bless

Chris

 

[Garscale]

Took a friend after a trophy gar today. Bowfishing. 7 ft 6 whopper.

 

[worldtalker]

Heavy rain fall got the fish active,landed 4 this AM.









GOD Bless

Chris

 

[releventchair]

Healthy specimens.
Congrats!

Used to fish carp at night.
Days too , but summer nights were most productive.

 

[worldtalker]

Healthy specimens.
Congrats!

Used to fish carp at night.
Days too , but summer nights were most productive.

I don't particularly care to go night time,early mornings before sunrise is my cup of tea. Telltale of who's fishing down at the Point.

 

[WannaDig3687]

Oh my goodness, garscale! That looks like something from River Monsters! Good for you and your friend! The pic is as close as I ever want to get to one. LOL

 

[WannaDig3687]

My buddy Jr. has a 60th BD tomorrow. I told him I wanted to take him fishing for his birthday. We went this am. Got to the lake at daylight hoping the changing barometric pressure would force a feed. Right away we started seeing schoolers and he caught 2 of those. A little later, he snagged this one....I told him Happy Birthday! We've been building his homestead for 2 years. First the barn, then the house and have not fished. We both needed this trip. Although I didn't catch any today, I enjoyed watching him catch. We didn't weigh it but suspect 3 1/2 to 4 lb.

Nice birthday gift. We built pond first, then barn, then house. Caught a lot of flak over that.

 

[worldtalker]

Nice birthday gift. We built pond first, then barn, then house. Caught a lot of flak over that.

What does a "flak" fish look like Sis?

 

[WannaDig3687]

Nice fishing, Chris!

 

[worldtalker]

Nice fishing, Chris!

Be awful nice if it's like that tomorrow morning,I just mixed up a bunch of pack bait I use on spring feeders,added a bit more than usual,raisin bran and graham crackers.I am going to find out if those carp like a hook full of raisins too.

 

[WannaDig3687]

What does a "flak" fish look like Sis?

LOL! Well, the have really big fish lips , like Mr Limpet, that flap. We call it “ Talkin’ Smack.”

 

[worldtalker]

LOL! Well, the have really big fish lips , like Mr Limpet, that flap. We call it “ Talkin’ Smack.”

 

[smallfoot]

Nice birthday gift. We built pond first, then barn, then house. Caught a lot of flak over that.

Ponds all over out here but if we had to we would have dug one too...

 

[smallfoot]

Nice gar shot garscale! We have bigguns down here too. Alligator Gar with long narrow toothy bill...There's a place in the Withlacoochee River that I call the bone yard. It's an area that splits the river around an island with one side being about 20 feet deep. Tannic acid water there and when on the bottom there it's pretty dark. I remember one day back in 71, scuba diving, fanning the bottom for artifacts and it was sunny out so it wasn't too bad seeing what I was doing. Suddenly, a dark shadow covered the bottom in front of my fanning and I rolled over, knife in hand thinking I was about to get gator got, only to look up a few feet above me and there were 5 of the biggest gar I have ever seen were just suspended right above me. Had the old heart rate going...

 

[worldtalker]

Only got one,what a bruiser,fight like crazy..she lost.



GOD Bless

Chris

 

[WannaDig3687]

Nice one Chris.

 

[Blak bart]

Well guys....its bitter sweet for me. I wish all of you a big congrats on all your great catches. Unfortunately for me its been a really messed up year. Only been out a handful of times since the spring covid outbreak. When I have been out its been slow, and we've caught nothing that was really photo worthy. We're still putting the fishing boat together after its fall in the boatyard. its been a long repair process and is ongoing. So in the meantime ill live my fishing adventures through everyone else. Thanks to everyone for posting on my thread and keeping it current !! Hopefully we will get back on the water for some diving adventures on labor day weekend.