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An 8 pound red is a nice one. Never caught a legal 8 pounder. Been close, but not quite.

My 2nd oldest son Than, won the jon boat !! yeah boy he's happy !!

onefishtwofish wrote:An 8 pound red is a nice one. Never caught a legal 8 pounder. Been close, but not quite.

Keep trying grasshopper.

Or keep trying finger mullet.

I'm getting old and my memory is failing, but I think there were 2 reds over 8#s that won the redfish side-pot in NFGFC tournies last year. One of them came from my boat and it ate a replica mullet.

Yup. Those replica mullet are hard to beat.

I confess that I used the real thing.

Doubt I'll ever get a legal one that heavy again. It tapered so quickly from dorsal fin to tail that the back end looked more like a largemouth bass shape. I actually thought it was 27 and 1/8 inches, based on my own crusty tape measure. Brought in a backup 26" red with the biggun, and requested a courtesy measure. The weighmaster ruled 27 flat. Can't ask for more courtesy than that!

I probably caught some close on finger mullet, but we were so busy catching, we were not even thinking about weighing them.
You must not have fished that one JT, I saw Gary's name at the top, but not yours.