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Get on the water at around 8:00 and are greeted to perfect conditions. Decided to go straight to doghead and nothing was happening so we decided to move. And finally got into some trout around 10:30. Tried topwater and had some blowups but could not hookup. Tried to hail members on the radio for a headsup on the color of the day. Got 1 responce I think he said it was Seachaser but I'm not sure and I didn't get him again. Gulp newpenny 3" shrimp were the only catcher of the day. Had 5 trout to 18" in the box when I put on a 6" live pig fish on my bait pole. 30 seconds later something tries to rip it out of the holder. I'm about to get spooled and holler to get the other poles in and crank the moter(forgot to mention that the battery was dead all day, thank God I have a pull start also) So I'm thinking big cobia and the chase is on. 1 hour 18 minutes and several miles out to sea later we finally get it to the boat on 20 pound test. It's a big old 6-7' shark. But it was a memorable fight and I won. Pulled it along side snapped some pics then I thumbed the spool and broke him off. Bad thing is we were in trout and probably could have caught a limit. Water was mostly clear and 74-77 degrees.
Yes, I am going to Keaton in two more days. I can't wait. To all, I appreciate the fishing reports. Sounds like everyone had a great time. We will be staying at the OLD Pavillion at KB, fishing all day, beer drinking and good ole fellowship in the evening.
Hit-n-Miss wrote:
But it was a memorable fight and I won. Pulled it along side snapped some pics then I thumbed the spool and broke him off.
Well....lets see some pictures !!!
When I am trout fishing, I usually hang a live pin-pig over on a stout spinner with 30lb. test and just let it sit. The other day at anky, I had it almost ripped from the boat, and NEVER saw what it was. spooled me and left without even slowing down for a second. And FAST.
Dubble
The more I know about something, the more I know that I did not know as much as I thought I knew that I knew.
We fished May4th, 5th and 6th. Friday the 4th was some hard fishing between the 4 of us, but we did manage to limit out on trout that evening. May 5th was a little better fishing out from grassy island in about 6 to 7 feet of water. We used Berkley gulps natural and new penny. We all limited out and had two gator trout 21 and 22 inches. May the 6th started out slow but when that backdoor cold front came through and brought some thunderstorms in we went in for about 1 hour and came back out to just south of the keaton beach channel markers and started drifting. Man did we start catching some big trout. We caught two 24 inch trout and two 22 inch trout. we made our limit in about an hour and a half. We also caught a couple of keeper flounder and three keeper black sea bass. We had a great time.
Hit-n-Miss wrote:
But it was a memorable fight and I won. Pulled it along side snapped some pics then I thumbed the spool and broke him off.
Well....lets see some pictures !!!
When I am trout fishing, I usually hang a live pin-pig over on a stout spinner with 30lb. test and just let it sit. The other day at anky, I had it almost ripped from the boat, and NEVER saw what it was. spooled me and left without even slowing down for a second. And FAST.
Dubble
It will be a while on the pics...in a disposable camera.
Get on the water at around 8:00 and are greeted to perfect conditions. Decided to go straight to doghead and nothing was happening so we decided to move. And finally got into some trout around 10:30. Tried topwater and had some blowups but could not hookup. Tried to hail members on the radio for a headsup on the color of the day. Got 1 responce I think he said it was Seachaser but I'm not sure and I didn't get him again. Gulp newpenny 3" shrimp were the only catcher of the day. Had 5 trout to 18" in the box when I put on a 6" live pig fish on my bait pole. 30 seconds later something tries to rip it out of the holder. 
I'm about to get spooled and holler to get the other poles in and crank the moter(forgot to mention that the battery was dead all day, thank God I have a pull start also) So I'm thinking big cobia and the chase is on. 1 hour 18 minutes and several miles out to sea later we finally get it to the boat on 20 pound test. It's a big old 6-7' shark. 
