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Saltydawg wrote: ↑Yesterday, 5:16 pm Cool post and great pics both under and above water. As a poor ole Ga boy 200+ miles from where I love to fish( just not often enough) I really appreciate these posts. Can sorta live vicariously!

Thanks, Saltydawg. I look forward to seeing your post after your next outing.

Slight clarification….. in the 4th pic down from the top, those are big gags, the one that are endangered. 3rd pic down has a nice RG in the front to the left, others are gags. Gags are like that everywhere 😡 I figured that some of the grouper were gags, but the distant fish are so far away that I ...

flatsbroke22 wrote: ↑July 24th, 2024, 8:11 pm Who has the squid strips? I haven’t found anyone selling them lately.

We got our squid strips at Crum’s. They stay on the hook much better than whole squid.

doomtrpr_z71 wrote: ↑July 24th, 2024, 7:42 pm Looks like that'll be the same story when gag season opens in September too

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If a fisherman tells you that this is the absolute best way to catch a particular fish or the guaranteed way for fishing success, he is probably selling you a bunch of nonsense. You have every right to demand proof. Pics or it didn’t happen. So, I’ve got pictures that prove the truth of what I am go...

Single dark red fish mark off the bottom… I have screenshot but have never posted photo…. How do I do that? I post pictures using the Tapatalk app on my iPhone. I don’t know how to do it any other way. Once I have the cursor where I want the picture to appear on the post, I click on the insert pict...

boomhauer wrote: ↑July 18th, 2024, 2:43 pm The trees are usually smaller fish , at least in our areas…. May be different to the west

If the snapper trees on sonar indicate smaller fish, what should one look for to find the bigger ones--if this is not too secret?

That’s what we see back east some. There will be one or two sows on a spot…. We are divers so don’t fish them too much. With all that bait I can see why they wouldn’t bite. Where you see the numerous smaller RS, you probably won’t find big ones there. You are correct that the sows dominate the reef...

Cool shots with all that bait, makes me feel better about not being able to get them to bite on our last trip. Part of my reason for posting about Monday's trip was to see if anyone has some ideas on what I could do differently aside from spending more time fishing and less time fiddling with camer...

fishinfool wrote: ↑July 18th, 2024, 6:47 am Always some great photos. Keep up the fine work.

Thanks, Jim.

It was great chatting with you at your rod and reel repair shop in Midway by the Talon range a few weeks ago.

How far and how deep do you need to go to find and catch red snapper is a question on my mind this time of year. Many think that when there’s heat, you must go deep. However, some friends recently caught fish in less than 100’. Being tired of 30+ mile runs offshore, I decided to do the same last Mon...

I second the recommendation for a knocker rig and a chicken rig, which is two hooks on a line with a sinker on the bottom. On the reefs out to 6 miles, you will likely catch a lot of grunts and some seabass. If you are lucky, you might also catch a mangrove on the knocker rig.

:-D Nice haul. Do you eat bonito? Didn't think you could. :-D The plan with the bonito was to cut them up for bait and freeze them for a future trip. However, we found someone who eats them and we gave the fish away. Both of the fish had been bled, one had its gills cut and the other took a gaff to...

Yesterday, July 13, was an offshore seafood buffet—for the SHARKS. We hooked a huge variety of fish, but it seemed like the sharks took every other one from our lines. After launching the boat at Apalachicola, we loaded the livewell mostly with cigar minnows that we caught in 60-70’ with Sabiki rigs...