great day on Econfina

yukondon · Post by **yukondon** » May 12th, 2005, 9:07 pm

Took a couple workmates to the favorite spot today,we ended up the day with 15 keeper trout,2 14in flounders a blue and 1 rock bass,fished 5 ft of water,temp was 76* favorite style was a Electric chicken under a CT,very warm and a little choppy but not too bad at all.Largest fish was 24 smallest was 18.5 Only downside to the day was the one that got away

I was trolling a rather large dead pinfish behind the boat when the largest trout Ive ever seen gave me one hellova fight,got her to the side of the boat after about a 10 minute fight but the net was too small to land her,fish had to of been 30+ inches long after trying a couple times to land her with the net she rolled and threw the hook.I was sick.That was one for the trophy room.

Maybe next time. [/b]

dave7 · Post by **dave7** » May 12th, 2005, 9:16 pm

Smallest was 18.5" !!! ?? Ya'll done well!

Post by **tin can** » May 12th, 2005, 9:19 pm

That's a heck of a box of fish.

I know how you feel about the big one. I've lost thousands of them.

Post by **rocket** » May 12th, 2005, 10:06 pm

Loosing that big one will make you sick!

Post by **RodBow** » May 13th, 2005, 6:19 am

I'm just getting sick

thinking about all the super big ones that I will lose in the future!!

dstockwell · Post by **dstockwell** » May 13th, 2005, 6:45 am

next time on the one that got away.

Post by **mjsigns** » May 13th, 2005, 7:02 am

Excennent Catch !

Good Reports are always good news....

Hit-n-Miss · Post by **Hit-n-Miss** » May 13th, 2005, 7:13 am

So where exactly is that secret spot?.........

Any luck on other colors? How long a leader?

Sea Gurl · Post by **Sea Gurl** » May 13th, 2005, 9:06 am

Isn't that the way it goes - the largest always is the one that got away! Sounds like a great day!

Thanks for sharing

Sea Gurl

yukondon · Post by **yukondon** » May 13th, 2005, 12:32 pm

Hit-n-Miss
We also used Candycorn and New penny,thats about the only three I throw. The leaders were about 24 inches long.Electric chickens were getting more strikes by far,some floating grass and the green looked more natural in it to me.

Post by **DixieReb** » May 13th, 2005, 4:35 pm

You did a lot better on trout than we did. We got 2 big ones, only one short. Also got a flounder, blue, and all the sharks we wanted to catch. Kept 2 sharks. I got a 22'' cobia, took picture and released him. It sounds like you had their number for sure!

Post by **Jumptrout51** » May 15th, 2005, 8:43 pm

tin can wrote:That's a heck of a box of fish.

I know how you feel about the big one. I've lost thousands of them.

Are you guys going to let him get away with this?THOUSANDS? BIG FISH? THOUSANDS? THOUSANDS, maybe BIG FISH ,NO.