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I am a Florida native. I chase everything with fins!
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Charter Captain/ Dockmaster/ Outdoor Writer
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if you are fishing on the docks, you need to use a stout setup and fish directly underneath your dock and any other dock within casting range. snook, jewfish, grouper, snapper, and all the rest of the gang post up underneath the docks for cover and ambush. if there are flats nearby that you can wade, throw small plastics or gulps at the grass or edges of channels. you will get your pole bent ALOT!
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Bonita Springs - April need advice on the Fly
Aaronsusername replied to BeerandFly's topic in Florida Fishing
small white/yellow clousers will catch pretty much everything on the beach. if you can find a grassflat to wade, throw something small, brown, and crablike and the redfish will fight over it. -
Captain Joe, those grouper fillets are what it is all about!
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Key West - Sushi Sashimi Information
Aaronsusername replied to STRIPERQUEST's topic in Florida Fishing
so lawyer and FDA approved misinformation say I should not eat raw fish. The FDA also says you may get salmonella from raw vegetables. I don't live like that, I live off the land and the sea. I guarantee the FDA would not recommend eating vegetables that were grown with true organic fertilizers, because of the risk of "bacteria". That will never stop me from burying fish carcasses in my garden! eating raw and fresh foods allow your body to process stronger antibodies and boost your immune system. killing the parasites/bacteria/pathogens. That is how I roll! -
South Indian River Fishing Report - 1/23
Aaronsusername replied to Captain Charlie Conner's topic in Florida Fishing
the super cold weather has effected us down south as well. slow and low is the way to go! -
Key West - Sushi Sashimi Information
Aaronsusername replied to STRIPERQUEST's topic in Florida Fishing
First off, proper icing and bleeding is critical. when filleting your catch the surface should be sanitary. half water/bleach and a good rinse does it. after that freezing is not necessary, though A light freezing can be done, not frozen like a brick, just partly. The list of delicious sahimi, sushi, and ceviche fish is long. Here are the best! Cero mackeral ranks high, as do the hog snapper, wahoo, triggerfish, porgies, yellowtail, Blackfins, bar jacks, king fish, and cobia to name a few. Your bigger bottom fish will be a bit more coarse, but make great ceviche, like mutton snapper, blacks, amberjack. I like to cut the bloodline completely out of all fish that are going to be done uncooked. it keeps the strong fishy flavor down and gives you the sweet texture of the fillets. some people even love the loins of a fresh and well bled bonita -
The A-team assembled at stump pass marina at four am. We loaded down our "chariot", 31 Bahama with twin 250 4stroke yammies. We ate fried chicken in the dark as we loaded the well with livies and punched in numbers for the glory holes. We were loaded for bear, I counted at least seven 6/0, one 9/0, a 50quad Avet, only three 4/0, and a handful of spinners rigged for jigging. Patrick, Travis, Cole, Mark, and I were pretty fired up because the weather was looking prime and we had some quality numbers to hit. First stop, 150 feet. We set up with anchor, and I caught a yummy eight pound scamp, which I handlined in, because the pinion on my 6/0 stripped. Out comes my favorite digger, old painless comes into rotation. We swung off the spot when the wind shifted a bit, and we developed a new gulf bottom fishing technique. I call it "anchor assisted power drifting". One outboard in reverse idle kept us close to the number, and we started hooking up big time. I arched up a powerful fish that managed to stick its head in a crusty hole and break off right above the knot. Travis, Cole, and Patrick all had the business handed to them. Travis caught a solid six pound mangrove, we boxed a six pound gag, released a few stud red snappers, and then the big fish bite stopped. I went to anchor duty and it was off to the next spot, in 177. I went big right off the bat and sent down a black mullet. I connected with a solid fish and when it went for its first dig, the fish came unbuttoned. The crew started hauling in STUD red grouper. We had some sixteen pounders, and Travis exclaimed exhasperated "I will be darned if I weigh in a red grouper". Very quickly a limit of reds all over ten pounds were on ice. My technique altered at this point. Foot and a half mullet were not allowing a solid hookset. I dropped a nose hooked mullet to the bottom, left my reel in freespool, with a foot of slack pulled off for drop back. The hit came, several brisk thumps, followed by unmoving weight. Line began peeling off my spool, and I locked up and cranked the stretch and slack out. The fish was on, and I focused on turning the handle. Always cranking the handle, no pumping of the rod, always cranking. The tug of war was intense, and soon a brown blob of color appeared from the inky dinky deep. The Rusty belly surfaced, Travis gaffed it, and I chugged a victory beer! My next bait down was a butterflied mullet, back bone removed, fins cut off. I fed the Gag some line when he ate. Cranking tight to the fish, I felt the solid weight of quality, and the grouper squalled bursts of drag. And really quick he was in the stuff. I pulled VERY hard once, and went to free spool. I think I counted to fifteen or twenty before I locked in and cranked like mad. It worked! I felt my adversary surge and dig down deep. Very gingerly and slowly I coerced this grouper to the suface. Travis gaffed it, and I chugged another beer! Patrick was ordered to deploy a jig, as we had seen some Bonitas feeding. He did two drops, and hooked up a drag burner. I was looking forward to dropping a big strip of Bonita, when Travis calls "Blackfin!" Boatside, gaffshot, picture, bled, iced We landed a few more gags in the twelve pound range, and the fish box was looking pretty full. We booked in over calm seas, and made the weigh in without incident. My 34# Gag took the biggest fish trophy. The next largest fish weighed was a beautiful 31# Black from captain Joe Miller. We also took the money prize for largest three with 72 pounds. ANd Travis really didn't want to weigh in that sixteen pound Red Grouper
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I had one track my little brown tuft of hair, but it didn't eat... I am still a zero on the sheep.
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Nice! Jason has been fired up about those fur eating sheepshead!
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One of the best lakes in sarasota is the apac lake. it is a maintained park, the entrance is on Honore ave on the outh side of the meadows. It is a 40 acre lake and is very deep. there are many submerged trees and the shorelines are dense cattails. I have always done best with the largemouths by boat, throwing white swimbaits along the cattails. There are huge schools of shad in that lake, so crankbaits, swimbaits andspoons work very well. Apac lake also has huge channel cats, and monster specks/ bluegill. All of the fish I have eaten out of there were very clean (cept the catfish) You can shore fish it easily enough, and there is a ramp for boats/ Kayaks. Combustion motors are not allowed,and the kayak may be a bit scary beacuase the gators there are HUGE!
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that is pretty sweet!
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should be some good action at the el jobean bridge that time of year, the resident tarpon would be coming out of the river and moving out front to join the party.
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They may not be in full force migration during late April, but there will be fish present. The first thousand or so that show up hang out inside Pine Island sound. Freelined live bait will get them, Shrimp, Crabs, or Threadfins under a cork. Throwing lures like DOA baitbusters or mirrolures will get strikes as well.