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Put in LH at 8:00am, went to fourth pole of stake line, so smooth for so long, water was not moving vary fast, caught a few shorts, some rock bass, huge trout swallowed one and spit it out at the boat. At 1:00pm started back in, stopped by buoy in front of LH in 12' of water, for about15-30 minutes they were all over, some shorts, 1 15 1/2 keeper. Tide had was strong here, wind had picked up, don't think this was a lady fish, but partner had it leap about 20 yards out, shook it's head and said bye, any small tarpon come thru there ? Lost something heavy, never got it to the boat. Think he had a good time, don't think he wanted to leave. Anyway, lot's of fun and learned a few things.

Good report Powell.... that musta been some trout ...but if I'm think'n straight it woulda been ilegal since rockbass was the bait?? Somebody else who's better up on the regs needs to jump in here.

I still have to get familiar with which fish I can use for that sort of thing
and not, but partner had just hooked the small rock bass, was reeling
in when this trout tried to swallow it up. If we had got it in the boat,
guess we could have released the bass and kept the trout ?

Powell,

I'm just hav'n a bit of fun with a technicality. I'm sure most of us would have extracted the rockbass and kept both of them as long as they were legal length. You weren't actually using the rockie for bait.

I almost broke into a sweat, do want to try and get some pin
fish next time out though, haven't tried that yet, still seem to be comiing
back to those read and white curly tailed grubs, so far. Do the frozen ones work at all ?

Powell, sounds like you had a blast. No telling what ya'll had hooked. A stray Tarpon does roam through there ever now and then. Ladyfish do get pretty large. The very large ones thinks they're tarpons sometimes. Never had much luck with frozen Pinfish. Tried it many times with very little catching to show for it.

Powell, don't let Sir Reel bother ya. He gets all carried away with those little technicalaties.

Sounds like you had a good trip.

We got into some ladyfish in the 30" range a couple of weeks ago. Coulda been one of those. Or, it could have been a small tarpon.

You never know what you might hook out there.