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Although the take home catch was modest, forum member eat_mo_crawfish (aka Shaw) and I had a great day on the water yesterday. The day started out with a little setback as no live shrimp were to be found at either of our regular bait stops. However, after a shot of espresso and rounding up some fres...

Well the catch was modest but the day very enjoyable. Got to St George State Park about 8:30, they still had a few East End passes so my buddy and I got one. The wind was blowing pretty hard but there was 3-4 groups of folks fishing when we got down there already. The surf was really boiling around ...

Had a great day surf fishing this morning at Bald Point State Park in spite of a constant strong S/E wind and ugly brown water. Three of us each took home a redfish, 25", 21" and 20", and we caught numerous rat reds mixed in with good sized croaker. Of course a lot of catfish too but ...

Water is clearing but still has a way to go. Couple of trout my buddy and I caught were practically brown!

A friend from Pensacola and I kept a couple of small bonitos once. We cut the tail off immediately, bled them overboard, and threw them on ice ASAP. I seem to remember Vic Dunaway's book says "not bad when boiled for tuna salad" or something like that. Couldn't be worse than canned tuna, c...

Sorry this post is a bit late but I went with a friend to the Dog Island reef on Saturday and we caught all the spanish we wanted trolling little banana spoons up and down the sand reef off the island. Stopped at one limit between us because thats all we would eat. Stopped on the inside flat at Turk...

I am sure this has been discussed here before, but I drove all the way out there Sunday only to find that they only sell 20 off road passes a day, which you need to get down to the cut if you don't have a boat. This is a local park rule, and is not posted in any of their pamphlets that I've ever see...