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9/9 SI report

Raginpyro — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 19:33:46 GMT

Had a lot of fun fishing on yesterdays trip to sebastian inlet. Saw many anglers having their luck around the inlet and a few slot snooks were landed while I was out there, however; we still haven't got ours :banghead . The first 20 minutes out at the inlet my dad landed this 42 inch slob redfish = P and boy did it put up a fight. Took him 30 mins to bring in the fish on the incoming. With a party of three we all broke off once each in our trip. My dad lost his rapala x-rap ($14 bucks down the drain = ( ... and so did my cousin. Only thing i lost was a homemade bucktail).

After the fishing slow down we started to fish for ladyfish the poor man's tarpon, but they are still a hell of fun to catch on every other cast.

In the process of uploading a the 42 inch redfish video.

My dad caught this on 30lb suffix 832 braided line that we wanted to test = )

Here's the pic of my Dad's big goldfish:
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8/29 SI report

Raginpyro — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 00:36:28 GMT

Rushed from UCF to get home so I can go fishing. We left orlando at about 3pm and got to Sebastian inlet at 5 pm. Started to fish at 5:30pm after catching a live well full of finger mullets. Fishing for about 2 hours we managed to catch 3 keepers and 2 oversized redfish.
The biggest redfish was 28 inches and the other overslot one was 27 1/4 inches.

Keepers measured: 21 inches/ 24 inches/ 25 inches.
Also kept a big ol lady fish to make patties/ meatballs DON'T judge me if you havent tried it:rolleyes

Anyways here are the goodies:
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Someone at the inlet was kind to snap the shot of all of us.

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Another SLAMIN’ year at Mogan Mania!!!!!

fish4reds — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 15:31:48 GMT

I Headed down to Mogan Mania in Jensen Beach for our annual get together and friendly tournament Saturday morning. I was on the road by 3:00 and at RPC in Jensen by 5:15 to pick up my card (for tourney pictures) and headed back to Ft. Pierce to meet Jim (freeflofisher) before sun up. We launched at the north causeway and worked the mangrove lined shorelines during the last half of the out going tide. First up was a 30”+ snook that took out my chugbug but after a good 5 minute fight she spit the hook leaving me slightly pissed off at what just happened. After continuing north Jim and I started working some of the exposed grass lines and I picked up a rat red on a fiji cal on an 1/8oz jig head.
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…..step I
Not mush after that other then a few short strikes and Pins chomping off the tails so we headed for a culvert that was moving some major water. We both posted up and after several casts I had a dink snook take a my glow/gold cal for a ride.
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…..step II
With the tide quickly falling we made a last ditch effort at the north causeway shoreline. I was fan casting and working the edge of the grass line as Jim proceeded in front of me in the same fashion. We had several hits but no takers which was very frustrating seeing how everytime you’d turn around a gator trout or big momma snook would high tail it out from the grass edge. I did have a sweet snook hit my cal and did a little tail dance or a few feet to only spit the hook….Ft. Pierce heard a few choice words from me at that point. A few minutes later I looked up to see Jim holding a samich size flounder which got the skunk off the boat for him but that was his first and only fish of the day.
I continued down the shoreline and picked up this little fellow…
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…..step III
I GOT MY SLAM!!!!!!
From that point we never got another bite and we called it a day as the tide was now completely out around 10:15am…..not the banner day both of us were looking for but a good morning never the less.
By 10:30 Jim was headed home and I still had 4 ½ hours till weigh-in so I headed to Stuart in hopes of finding a hungry snook at the Roosevelt Bridge. I unloaded at the foot of the hill between the Roosevelt and the RR tracks and paddled east towards the sea wall to find bait being smashed but had no takers. I worked over the entire sea wall with no luck so it was off to the pylons at Roosevelt. After several attempts to make a cast and fail to reel it in before being swept completely under the bridge by the heavy incoming tide and a strong east wind I gave up on that idea and headed in for a bite to eat and then back to RPC for the weigh-in.
With pictures turned in before the clock struck 3:00 I proceeded to my room and crashed for an hour seeing how I was working off 2.5 hours of sleep from the night before. Woke up around 5:30 and proceeded to have to many adult beverages and found myself enjoying the party and friends that I haven’t seen since to previous year. The pot luck dinner was at 8:00 which was followed by the awards ceremony for the tourney. My buddy Paul (fishNnut) took home some goodies for biggest snook of the day with a 30”er. Then another buddy took home the award for traveling to furthest (Pensacola) and never even wetting a line during the tourney but recovering from the White Lightning from the night before.
Then came the expected, and the winner is……”To the guy that drove down the day of the tourney and was in the water before anyone, to the only one that got a SLAM with a red, a trout, and a snook, and was his own camera man for the day”…….by this point I was excited seeing how last time I managed something for this tourney was 4 years ago with the biggest trout of the day.
Kevin (producer man!) called me up and asked me a few questions about my day before handing over a sweet new Flat Blue Blair Wiggins Signature Series 7’9” rod, a Sabalos 3500 reel, two spools of FINS (150yds 20lb XS and 300yds 10 Wind Tamer), a new Minn Kota visor, and a pack of Cal’s……FREAKING AWESOME!!!!
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Needless to say I was stoked and surprised that I took home the top spot this year, now I just have to do it again next year!
After more and more drinking and talking with old friends I was off to the room around 1am to try and fish Sunday morning before I headed for the house. I did manage to wake up and hit the water Sunday morning with a nasty SW 10+ wind. I decided to hit a known snook hot spot even though the winds were not in my favor on that east shoreline. I paddled out towards my spot but couldn’t keep the chop from coming over the bow so I turned back and made a few attempts with a DOA new penny/glow shrimp under the mangroves. It paid off, but one day to late….
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This little thumb sucker measured in at 28” and was the cherry on top of the sundae to say for the weekend!
Thanks again to the entire AF crew for putting on one hell of a weekend!!!!!
~Austin

titusville redfish

Hendy — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 23:10:43 GMT

Took out my friend from UF who is down for the summer out fishing one day. Said That he had caught a lot of trout and ladyfish but never a redfish. So I took the boat up north to see If I could find any reds...
Got out real early and started fish around 7-7:30am. Fishing was slow though and only managed a few nice trout and a ladyfish. We spooked up one nice red so I decided to throw out a few pieces of ladyfish. Then BAM fish on.[IMG]http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa218/CamHendy/coonreds2.jpg[/IMG]
After that we got a double bite on the ladyfish.[IMG]http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa218/CamHendy/coonreds4.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa218/CamHendy/coonreds3-1.jpg[/IMG]
It turned out to be a great day and my buddy got his first redfish.

Sebastian Inlet

midnightrider17 — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 15:45:28 GMT

Live croakers on the start of the outgoing tide.
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Mel Bch dockin

midnightrider17 — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 15:49:11 GMT

Live shrimp freelined on a rock pile off of my friends dock. caught a lot of smaller trout and redfish but these are the biggest.

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Scottsmoor 06-11-11

fish4reds — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:31:35 GMT

Met up with Cracker11, his cousin Bill, and my Bro-In-Law Shawn @ the Scottsmoor ramp Saturday morning. We headed over to the boat house point area and let the NE winds drift us down the east shoreline. Tom yelled out "we've got tails" as Shawn and I were on a sweet topwater Trout bite in 2' of water. Shawn and I both got a 19" Trout a peace and decided to move in shallower but by then the tails had disappeared. After cruising the flats in less then a foot of water now past boat house point with only dink trout and to many lady fish to count all of us decided to head to the west side. Cracker and Bill headed south as Shawn and I stayed due west of boat house point. Once there we found some nice looking bottom but it was loaded with bait killer pin fish. There was a fly fisherman working tight to the shoreline near us, I noticed a tail pop up a few yards from him and I watched as he snagged one with the buggy whip. That gave us a little insight as to where the fish were.....SKINNY!
I made my way into less then a foot of water with a muddy murky bottom and started to see tails! First hook up was to a nice 22" cruising around with his back out of the water in less then 8" of water.
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Shorty after I released him into the cooler I noticed a massive Trout with all but his head out of the water in the middle of a grass mat. I made one bad cast that came to close for her comfort and she took off, I quickly reeled in and made a blind cast in the direction she was going and my DOA got hammered but not by the Trout....
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Measured in at 24.5" and put up a great fight with most of the fight being in and out of the heavy grass mats. Both reds where caught on a DOA holographic 1/4oz shrimp rig weedless on an Owner Twist & Lock 3/0 wide gap hook.
That was it for me for the day, Cracker and Bill were heading north as we decided to call it a day with them finishing off the day with Cracker getting him a red from what I hear.
Till next time,
Austin

Manatee Cove 05-29-11

fish4reds — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:22:08 GMT

Launch a little after sun up on Sunday and had trout on the mind and that's what was a poppin!
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23.5" fat daddy Trout!
Poppin was the key for today, all but one trout fell for a pearl white gulp shrimp rigged under a poppin cork. The trout in the picture looked like a juvenile tarpon rolling as it came in to see what all the commotion was about then quickly turned on the shrimp and hauled a$$ with it.
The water way very mucky so the loud clacks from the brass beads did the trick today!
Tally for the day 7 trout plus one spitting the hook boat side.

Just another day on the lagoon! 4-30-11

fish4reds — Sun, 01 May 2011 17:19:50 GMT

Headed over to Manatee Cove Saturday morning and found Andy (tikiweaky) had beat me there and was already fishin by the islands. After working several pods of mullet on my way towards the islands all I had to show for it was a nice keeper trout spitting the hook in my face boat side. The sun was on move so I knew it was time to make a run for the flats in search of some reds before they scooted to cooler water when the got high.

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As I made my way around the Island u saw Andy working the shoreline, I headed over to introduce myself. So far both of us had about the same luck that morning so I made a beeline for the docks while he continued working the grass flats on the south side of the docks. I started fan casting to all of the huge pods of big black mullet. The trick to my day was a DOA shrimp rigged weedless on a 3/0 1/8oz laser sharp bounced off the bottom. Around 8:30 I made a cast that must have landed right on a reds head. The strike came so fast that I did even have the bail closed by the time this bad boy was peeling line off the spool! I quickly closed the bail and set the hook....that pissed him off a little and he took about a 70 yard long run taking me down to about a 1/3 of a spool.
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Not much of a belly on him but it was a solid 29" red!
About a 1/2 hour later on the same flat I snagged this little guy on a DOA Cal screamed across the flat.
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My bro-in-law showed up with his 2 boy but the only one that could get something going was the young brother with his first red, a sweet 16"er! Sorry no picture of the little guy, I didn’t know he got it till an hour later. One I finally convinced my bro-in-law to work a little shallower on the flats the sun was already getting a little high and the mullet pods were starting to thin out a bit.
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Where we were the water was very low which made it a trolling motor free fishing area. With trolling motor high out of the water we polled and paddled our way across the flats in search or fish.
I headed back to the same flat in front of the same docks and sat and scanned the water for a few minutes till I saw a nice little red tail waving at me. No more then 15' off the side of the canoe was a nice looking slot red waving and saying hi! I slathered on a quick coat of pro-cure on my shrimp and made my cast, one twitch and it was FISH ON! After a nice little fight she was in the boat and then off to the cooler dinner measuring in at 26"
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Not knowing at the time but that would be the last fish of the day for us. We just couldn't aren't o find anything for the rest o the day and finally called it at 1:30 and headed in. I'm not sure how Andy made out, last time I saw him he was making his way towards Rinker Canal after I got the 29" red.

Indian River Trout fishin

Hendy — Wed, 25 May 2011 12:49:39 GMT

Haven't posted on this forum in forever.... surprised I still remember my password lol.:D
Anyway, I have been having a lot of luck lately trout fishing in the indian river. I use alot of soft plastics casting around docks and some shallow areas along with a pinfish under a cork trailing behind the boat.
Had a friend come from out of town and was able to take him out fishing one afternoon despite the wind. After a bumpy ride we got to our spot and started fishing. Caught a few smaller trout about 13-18inches all on the soft plastics. After 2 hours of nothing we both hooked up at the same time. One trout was about 21' the other about 23'.[IMG]http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa218/CamHendy/trent.jpg[/IMG]
Fished a little longer and played with some smaller trout before we called it a day.
All the fish were released.

River Monsters.

midnightrider17 — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 21:40:29 GMT

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Creek Monsters

midnightrider17 — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 16:20:06 GMT

DOA Terroreyez deep inside the creek :)
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South Goon 4-18-11

Cracker11 — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 18:38:50 GMT

Me and Bill,met Steve and Mike,first light,at eddy Creek :D

Gator Trout,Flounder,and huge Ladyfish....On Plastics and Gold Spoon :w00t:

This was the smllest of the bunch

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When the guys post up thier pics,I`ll put them up for ya !

Manatee Cove "super moon" 3-19-11

fish4reds — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:37:11 GMT

Figured I'd enjoy the "super moon" on Saturday by a little late afternoon into the evening fishing at the cove. I launched around 3:30 and made a b-line for the river cause of the manatee sex fest that was happening in the cove, just didn't feel like getting knocked out of the canoe and becoming a casualty of there fun :P
Once on the flats I found the winds due right out of the east and with the sun very low and at my back it made it very difficult to see the reds hangin in the potholes till I was right on top of them. I must of spooked a dozen or so till I started blind casting in hopes of picking one up but it never happen.
As the sun was setting I started heading for the launch and made one last stop to fish a sweet little trout hole to have at least some fun before the moon rose over the IRL.
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As I made my way towards my spot so did the dolphins, there was 10 to 12 of them that decided that they wanted to play in the same spot that I planed to. Not sure of the dolphins finally tally but I managed to sneak about a dozen trout out of the hole while they circled my canoe trying to steal my catch.
Here's a video (if it works) of some of the competition that I had to deal with. In the video I had just cast out my Mirrodine Mini and just let it rest in the water column when I decided to grab my phone a take the video. All was well till I turned and the "dine" twitched and a trout inhaled it.....
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By the way if you couldn't tell my wiener dog has got it in for the sea life, for some reason he wants to bite every fish and I think he would have taken a chunk out of a dolphin if it came closer. All of this lasted for a good half an hour before I called it quits however the dolphin were still hangin out enjoying what now was there honey hole.
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Before I headed in for good I hung around to grab a quck but poor quality picture of this so called "super moon", the picture didn't do it justice, but it was cool to see on the water.
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Hope you enjoyed the moon yourself but I wasn't that impress, it looked like the same old full moon to me.

Let me know if the video worked, I've never posted one up before.
~Austin

3/26 SI snook and blues

Raginpyro — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 02:37:44 GMT

Went out at there at about 5pm and fished for a while. Fishing started to pick up once the tide switched at about 7pm, once the tide started to kick in we were hitting blues non-stop.
I managed to land a catch-n-release 30 inch snook, but only got the picture with the iPhone = (.

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First Tourney in Two Years

RockinNReelin — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 11:25:06 GMT

I fished the South Shore Anglers Largest Trout tourney on Saturday. The largest trout I could muster was only 20 1/4 inches. It was cold and foggy when we launched and, of course, I started the day off like a typical girl.... had to rearrange the boat after taking off so back to the launch I peddle only to get out of the boat too soon and have the COLD water go over the top of my hip waders!! Brrrr. Now I'm cold AND wet but off I go. Get out to the flat and it's too shallow to peddle so in true CookNCrew fashion I have to PADDLE 8 miles to our trout hole!!!! Okay, so I exaggerated the mileage but it sure felt like 8 miles! My shoulder is SCREAMING at me today!!! Any way, I managed a couple of trout, a few flounder and the FIRST redfish in the NEW boat!! All in all it was a fun day on the water! Now I just need to get rid of the "girly" stuff and start fishing like a guy again!! lol Mark ended up tying for 2nd place but ended up getting 3rd because the other guy got there first.[img]http://www.myfishingpictures.com/data/500/medium/sharon_red_031211.jpg[/img][img]http://www.myfishingpictures.com/data/500/medium/redfish_release1.jpg[/img]

Snook and Goliath SI 3/12/11

midnightrider17 — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 15:20:11 GMT

Finally went back to the Inlet after a few months break. loaded up on pins pigs and mullet and got up on the jetty. after an hour or so of nothing on the pigs or pins i hooked a mullet on and cast him out, 10 seconds into my drift and BAM fought this beautiful 39" snook in snapped a pic and released her. the day before got hooked up to this nice jewfish.
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Peacocks 1-15-11

fish4reds — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 11:59:20 GMT

Headed over to the pocket after work on Saturday with my buddy Jerry. We met up with Tom (Cracker11) at the launch, he got out before dawn and finish off the day with us. Cracker is one crazy dude seeing how he was there before the sun came up and left with us after the sun went down.
The trout bit was on most of the afternoon but with the light winds it made it hard to do any sight fishing. We slowly made our way out of the pocket and over towards the creek. On the way over to the creek we made several casts at cruising reds and managed to catch this guy as he flew right through my line at the wrong time. Its hard to make it out but it’s a cormorant that is trying to swim away in the picture with his head under water heading to the left.
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He wasn't a happy camper and took a little of my skin with him in his return to the wild.
once at the creek mouth we found a few trout along the way but nothing spectacular. Once in the creek mouth he hit a few holes and found plenty of schooly trout with a few in the 17" area.
We called it quits just before dark and headed back towards the pocket to load up and head home. As we made it to the north side of the creek we spooked a very large school of Blacks. Tom was the 1st to hook up, or I should say “snag” a Black.
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he snagged it in the side of the head, he said the hook came out of his mouth and he got lucky and it caught him in the side of the head.
Next was my turn and with around a hundred fish in this school it wasn’t hard to find a group to cast to but it proved quite hard to get one to bite. After several casts I came up with this bad boy.
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After that the school made a run for the hills and it was getting pretty dark so we headed for the trucks.
~Austin

Titusville 1-31-11

Cracker11 — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 08:25:54 GMT

Got to the launch area about 7:15am,my Uncle Ronnie and Uncle Don were right behind me,and it was the first time for Don on a yak,he was hooked quick.....I think we were 10yrds into the paddle when he said " I`ll have one of these things before the weekend ".....lol

I took them straight to the Trout Hole, I figured I`d ware thier arms out a little before moving on to the large Reds and Blacks in the area.......but Ron found a slot red just before we got there,so he was stoked ;).

Once in the hole,we found nothing but 20" to 23" Trout ready to hit anything in the water,so we sat there for about two hours,catching trout after trout...I should have taken some pics of them having a blast,but the action was so fast,I hardly had time to take pics at all

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When everyone got wore out from all that action,we slow drifted back to the north,looking for Tails....we found them 20 minutes,they started popping up everywhere :w00t:,and we had the whole place to ourselfs,but the wind picked up a bit,and they would pop up for a second,then vanish,making them hard to keep track of......we finaly found a Lee-Side of an Island where we found a few very large Tails,and I noticed a Red smashing mullet,so I pulled out the Box,and tied on a secret weapon....The CHUG-BUG....I waited for the huge tail to pop up,then I tossed the bug about a foot in front of the fish,it Bowed Up,I popped it wonce,the fish started after it with a huge wake,I sped up the retrive,the red came up behind it,and missed it 4 time,I stopped it for a second,the fish circled the bug,then I popped it once,then....KABOOOOOOOM,the water opened up,and the bug was GONE.....FISH ON GUYS....I`ll see yall in awhile,this may take some time :P.......It ripped out 30yrds of line,then went round and round,as I was thanking God for making me tie on a Leader,something I seldom do when fishing the flats,but a great fight produced a sweet 32" Red,on TOP-WATER....This is what I live for !!!!!!!!

As I took this Pic,the red slapped me in the face with it`s tail....talk about a Smack Down :P

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The wind picked up a bit more,but the huge Red and Black flags were still flying,and I actualy reached over and touched one it was so close,but they wouldn`t touch anything we offered,I tried for the next two hour to get my uncles hooked up,but sitting on a yak that long takes it`s toll on the Butt,and we left them tailling to head back to the launch,talking about the days adventure :D

Price of lost tackel........$10.00..........Time spent with family,Priceless ;)

Titusville 1-30-11

Cracker11 — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 07:22:59 GMT

The day started out without much hope of fishing,I told my Cuz that I`d help her move into her new place,but we knocked it out by 1:00pm,so I decided to Pre-Fish an area that I`d planned on taking my Two Uncles to the following day.

Got to the launch area about 2:30pm,and got to the Spot as my buddy Austin and his wife Becca were finishing off thier day,and taking pics of thier catch

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They didn`t even get thier anchor up before I was catching fish

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Then a guy that I`ve seen out there several times,paddeled up and asked if he could bring in two friends he had out there,and I told him there were way more here than I can catch....More The Merrier :D...so they sat there and caught thier limit of Piglet Trout.

The sun was about to set,so we all decided to leave and head back to the launch,and I told them to keep an eye out for the schools of Black Drum that like to pour out of the creek at sun-set...........I found them and hollered,but nobody stopped but me :w00t:.....These fish were so big,and in such shallow water,that thier backs were well out of the water,and actively feeding,.....so my first cast was sucked up by the Runt of the bunch,and the Ride was on

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After putting that fish under my leg to take home,I pulled out the Video,and tried to catch one on video.....hooked 4 others that came off before I gave in to the Dark....I double timed it back to the launch,where the other three yakers were just finishing loading thier yaks,and I asked if they`d like a small Black to add to thier Trout cooler.....thier eyes buldged when I flopped it in thier cooler,and Said " Should have stopped " :cool:

Slam.......TROUT,REDS,BLACKS.............God I LOVE DOA CALS :D

x-mas break cobia

SnookSlayer08 — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 21:05:54 GMT

Well cobia season is in full swing down here in jupiter and we all fished a lot over christmas break I personally went 1 for 9, I just couldn't get hooks to stick and finally got a short fish yesterday but it felt good to atleast get one to the boat. After I missed 5 fish in one day at Juno Pier all over 30lbs and one over 50. Went on the boat twice and we caught fish both times and we got some nice fish at the pier including the new pier record 71lbr that my buddy ryan got, here's pics of all the fish:

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71lbr caught 12/21/10

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22lbr by my buddy chase off juno

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two fish that we got on the boat, saw them as soon as we started looking, i just couldn't get he line on the roller of my stall quick enough since the jig got ate as soon as it hit the water but kyle and steve caught fish

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kyle's 22lbr he got on juno the next day

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Fish we got yesterday on the boat (we had 6 people on the boat, but everyone else got shorts)

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Fish austin got new years day, he showed everyone on the boat how it's done and single handed caught their limit of 5 fish

By the way all fish were caught sight fishing on jigs

High Flying Snook Wrangling Day!!

sp ultracast — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 22:17:01 GMT

Today was my day off from work so I made sure it was well worth the trip out. Around 7am it was around 44 degrees :jawdrop: out but yet Matt and I still proceeded to go fishing. We decided to fish a flat but with no luck out there we decided to paddle to some canals and what a great idea that was. We found a nice little area of sand/mud and jumped out to wade. As we start looking around we bumped into a big school of snook. All big females for sure. With a few missed blow ups on skitter walk I tried a few other lures. Matt and I tried like 4-5 different lures till we found the right one. Rapala Xrap was the one. As soon as one snook passed I made my cast and WACK I'm hooked. After the battle I had a nice 33" snook kayak side. I had to chase this guy down but it was not as big as a fight as the other 2. I paddle back to my spot jump out and sure enough I hook up again to another snook I sight casted with the Xrap. After she burned off 30 yards of line from my Stradic CI4 I had to jump back into the kayak and chase him down. Luckly I was able to get her tired quick as my leader was under her gill and was close to be cut with just enough tension. Sure enought a nice 32" snook is kayak side. Now I paddle back and about 20 mins later I see a big explosion I cast all the way out there and sure enough THUMP Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Booom big snook leaps out of the water and make an amazing tail walking jump. This fish must have burned 40 yards of line off before I could chase her down. I could not believe I was able to catch this fish. It took me everywhere. Mangroves,tress everything. It was one of the hardest fish to land from the kayak in a long time. But I did land this fish and it was a beautful 35" snook :woohoo: . A nice release and its back to fishing.Go figure I hook two more nice snook but sadly the hooks pulled and I lost them since they both gave me some wicked head shakes!!! :bang: Well its around 1pm and Matt needed to be home so as we paddle back to the launch we find another small pod of snook and sure enough I make a extra long cast and my lure must have not hit the water till I hear ZzZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzz fish on. These fish fight so hard during the colder months its crazy. Like the rest a 10 min battle and I had this healthy 31-32" looking snook kayak side for a nice pic and release. It was well worth the trip and I cant wait till another. :sweet: :sweet: :sweet:

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1-1-11 Manatee Cove

Cracker11 — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 19:26:44 GMT

Went looking for Reds to start the year off right,but found hundreds of Trout stacked up in the cove.......none large,but every cast ;)

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Great time to take the kids,fish from shore,catch a limit quick :cool:

NMZ BLACK DRUM BABY!!!

fish4reds — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 17:25:09 GMT

I headed over to the NMZ today to meet up with Cracker11 and a few other friends for the 2nd Annual TommyGun Camp-out expecting rain but got more!
The conditions at dawn were better then we expected.
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After spooking a few schools I started heading further north and picked up this little guy along the way...17"+-
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The water remained like glass even when the rains moved in later in the morning but this is what it looked like most of the morning.
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The rains moved in around 10ish and never let up, but that was a good thing today. The Black Drum where tailing everywhere on the flats, most of which were in the 30lb+ range. One cast after another all of out baits were being turned down. The rain started in a bit harder and I soon realized I was the only one left stalking the blacks as everyone else made where way back to the launch. I stuck it out for another 45 minutes when I finally got one to eat. It was fish on and my heart was pumpin! After a 10 minute fight I got this puppy to the boat.
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This was my first Back I'd ever got IN the boat. She measured in at 32" and was a pig of a fish!
I had quite a few more shots at tailing drum but only one more taker only to spit the hook and take off like a bat out of hell!!! After that I called it a day, the winds were next to nothing which made it nice for the long haul back to the launch. I was loaded up and back at the guys camp by 11am.
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Lots of firsts today, not only was this my 1st trip out to the NMZ (and I was solo on the canoe) it was also my 1st BLACK DRUM!!! Big difference paddling compared to using the trolling motor, I quickly realized how far 2.5 miles really is!
-Austin

If only it was a tournament day!!!! 10-20-10

fish4reds — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 09:42:34 GMT

I met up with Cracker11 Wed. morning at the sticks in the south ML. We headed out pre-dawn and started north so the slight winds would push us back by the end of the day.
Here’s a shot about a ½ hour after our launch.
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And sun up finally.
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The winds were out of the north west and not blowing hard at all. We started working topwater plugs (ChugBug) that the fish were absolutely slamming. The only problem was they would hit the POO out of it and almost always seem to miss the hooks. After several misses it became apparent that you would just have to let them take it rather then even try and set the hook. Both of us hooked up to some small Trout and some did manage to make it to the boat but all were undersize until later in the a.m.
Tom started working close in to the shoreline and with in a 10 minute period had a sweet 21” Trout and a nice 22” red to show for it.
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I at that point was feeling like it wasn’t my day, another hour went by and still no fish for me. I started switching things up a bit by drifting slightly deeper and working any grass edge I could find. But it still seemed as if it wasn’t my day until I spotted a push in the middle of one of the bait pods. I tossed my chugbug out and it slammed it…FISH ON I yelled to Tom!!! I was hooked up for 3 to 4 minutes when I felt this red bury its nose in the shell and grass bottom then my line went slack. I reeled in my chugbug only to find both trebles were covered in shell and grass, that fish had played this game before and knew exactly how to get that hook out of his mouth. So it was back to working the bait pods again after letting that fish know how I felt about him, needless to say the south lagoon learned a few new words yesterday.
Once again I found myself with a large swirl in front of me, pitched out my chugbug which got smashed and smashed and smashed…..but that’s is no hook up. I dropped the chugbug and grabbed the rod rigged with a weedless white gulp crazy legs and made a cast and got the hook up, but only for 10 seconds. Next cast to the same spot and I hook up again, this time he was hooked and hooked good! After a 10 minute fight I finally got my first nice fish in the boat.
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27” on the dot!! This thing was a pig and must have weighted in close to 8lds.
By this time its getting pretty hot and the winds have died down to next to nothing. The fish have moved deeper and there wasn’t very much sight casting going on seeing how the fish were only in the murky 1.5’ range all morning. Things started looking tough till the bait rolled in again and with the bait came the reds and trout busting up the pods again. We located one fairly large school of mid to upper slot reds but they seemed to be in over drive and didn’t care much for our offerings. Every time the school settled down we’d get a few casts off and a few spit hooks. Tom gave up and moved shallower again till I yelled that school was back in session, as he started making his was over I had a momentary hook up. I let my crazy legs settle back to the bottom and gave it one little twitch and it was fish on again!
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This girl measured in at 26” with 6 spots.
I must say batting clean up is a sweet thing! Now if only that hook up to spit hook ratio would change!

On a side note, Cracker11 is missing the forum bad but has limited access to the internet due to having to cut out some bills. The man is always looking to go fishing so if you want to get in touch with him just hit me up and I'll pass the word on.

-Austin

1,000 Islands Dec.1st

fish4reds — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 09:44:53 GMT

Met up with Paul (shiman-iac) from OKFC at 1,000 islands Wed. morning to try our luck as the front rolled through, needless to say it was a very slow day.
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The sky's were all clear till around 7 when the front showed up. It rolled through fairly quickly and never really dumped any rain. We fished in and around all the islands on the southern end and only managed a few short strikes and for some reason the only thing that seemed to be hungry was the cats which couldn't leave my poppin cork/gulp combo alone, 5 cats later that set up was put back in the tackle box for another day.
Finally around noon Paul got his skunk off the boat when a nice Trout tried to take off with his MirroDine.
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After a quick picture she was released and it was back to working the mangroves for me while Paul continued on his way on the flats. After 30 minutes of nothing still for me I finally called it a day and started for the ramp while working some groves along the way. I got my hopes up as I worked my last mangrove lined shoreline when I spooked a mess load of cats and very large mullet and a sheepshead that I would have loved to take home for dinner, this guy must have been upwards of 18". With in 10 yards of where everything got spooked I pitched into a pocket and got nailed by something with some shoulders...
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She measured in at 22" and joined my wife and I for dinner that evening.
Besides being on the water 7 hours before I got a "real" fish it was relaxing day on the way despite the high winds and lack of fish.
To my best efforts I still couldn't keep worm from the winds....
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Till next time, tight lines everyone and I hope you get on the bigguns! thumbs-up
-Austin

Scottsmoor 11-20-10

fish4reds — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 09:43:51 GMT

Met up with shiman-iac (Paul) and Thorn (Keith) from the OKFC @ WSEG Sat. before dawn with plans to head over to the troll & pole zone but that plan was scratched real quick seeing how the winds were already kicking pretty hard form the NE at 10 -15mph. We made a quick decision and headed for the north end of Scottsmoor and arrived just before sun up.
This is about 30 minutes after we hit the water.
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The 3 of us started working the east shoreline and found plenty of bait and some very spooky reds. Between the 3 of us we had plenty of short strikes but Keith was the only one to hook up which I found out later, so if you got a pick post it up Keith. Paul headed deeper and found a few trout while I stayed skinny working the grassy edges. I saw some promising water and made a cast and it paid off. My jerk bait got smashed by this little guy.
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After that red we continued down and past boat house point only to find more spooky reds. Keith headed towards the south east pocket behind grassy point while Paul and I hung around boat house point only to find one dink red and a dozen ladies with a few dink trout in the mix.
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By this time it was already about 11:30 and I need to call it a day and get home seeing how I had a few freinds headed over later. I hooked Paul up to a line and we proceeded back the launch in record time. I think Paul will be more then willing to hit the water with me in the future seeing how he didn't have to make the 2.5 mile paddle back and all he had to do is sit back and relax and let my trolling motor do the work. We never did see Keith again after he headed south east so I'm hoping that he had a better late morning then Paul and I did.
-Austin

9/18 Sebastian Inlet Monster Snook

Raginpyro — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 18:24:10 GMT

On Saturday 9/18 my father and I made a trip to sebastian inlet from Orlando, FL and we had the opportunity to fight monster snooks.
My father landed a 46 inch snook and I landed a 41 inch snook, the choice of bait used that night was a a homemade chartreuse bucktail. Both fish were handled properly and released to fight another day.

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Raginpyro

John* — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:52:11 GMT

I see you and your Dad made the inlet report , way to go !! :cool:

Its gonna be a couple weeks before I can make it over that way.

Its been a while since I've posted a report

chumhead — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:34:19 GMT

Many of you may remember my report from Dec 16th, 2008 when I took a young man that worked for me fishing and tied into a bunch of grouper....

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Well, last week he completed Basic Training at Paris Island and returned home for some much deserved leave.
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Before he left I promised to take him fishing not knowing that my boat would be back at the factory when he got back, so my friend, neighbor and fishing partner Capt Jim Haisten agreed to help me take him out on his boat and stretch his arms a bit after a long period of no fishing.

When I asked Kevin what he wanted to do, he said he wanted to "pull on something", so we headed to "the bridge". With the new moon, there was absolutely no moving tide and we sat there for a while waiting and waiting for something to happen. Capt Jim noticed a bunch of birds and activity downwind at the other end of the bridge, so we headed over to investigate. As we pull up, there are ladyfish, bluefish and jacks literally busting baits out of the water next to the bumpers installed to keep barges from hitting the bridge supports. Kevin tosses in a jig and lets it hit bottom (in 50 feet), on the 4th jig his rod doubles over......
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As Kevin pulls the redfish close to the boat, we see he has another 8 or 10 following.....as fast as we can snap a few pictures and get a line back in the water, he's hooked up again.....
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He lands this fish, and as you can see in the backgroud, Capt Jim can't stand it any more.....
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The action was hot and heavy, I'm not sure, but I think Capt Jim passes the rod off to Kevin so he can "pull" on another one.....
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Toss in countless ladyfish, bluefish and "other species" (meow) as well as watching several sharks join in the frenzy, it was a very visual fishing trip.....its not very often we get to sight fish big bull redfish in 50 feet of water, lol.....Kevin even had a HUGE redfish try to eat a catfish he was bringing up, but I'm guessing that a fin found its mark in the redfishes mouth as he let go and didn't return.

A special thanks goes out to Capt Jim for helping me fulfill my promise to take Kevin fishing, and deciding to check out the other end of the bridge we have never fished before, saving the day!

Another thanks goes out to Kevin, for helping to preserve our Freedom! Joining the Marines during wartime takes a very special person....and for that I am proud to say I know and fish with him.

Pull on something.....he did!

chumhead

South Mosquito Lagoon 09-08-10

fish4reds — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:37:11 GMT

Met up with Kayak 4 2 (Mike) from the OKFC forum at Eddy Creek this morning in hopes of finding some quality fish. We launch before sun up and made our way out to the last island before the lagoon opens up just as the sun was starting to pop over the trees.
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The water is way up and the bait is everywhere, everything from finger mullet, giant black mullet, to glass minnows everywhere. We worked the west side of the island with mirrodines and poppin corks rigged with gulp shrimp. I was the first to hook up with a massive 10" red. After a quick release I hooked up again on the very next cast to a sweet 21" red that would make his way home for dinner.
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After a release into the cooler I looked back to see Mike hooked up to what turned out to be his 1st red ever!!!!
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CONGRATS ON THE 1ST REDFISH MIKE!!!!!:w00t:
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As for the rest of the day it was slow! I managed one dink trout and saw quite a few sheephead but no takers.
And what would a day be on the lagoons with a little rain on the way home.
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NIRL 09-15-10

fish4reds — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 15:59:42 GMT

[b]Headed over for an early a.m. solo trip this morning to a well known Cracker11 hangout. Launched pre-dawn and headed for my first spot which was loaded with bait but void of any predator fish. After fishing numerous bait pods with no luck I moved on to one of Cracker11's favorite honey holes and got a little lucky. I first tied into a nice 19" Trout that slammed my ChugBug.
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Next was the MirroDine’s turn which produced a sweet 18" Trout.
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Those turned out to be the only quality fish in that particular hole, tones of dink Trout later it was time to move on.
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I couldn't get another nice fish after 8:30 and figured the bite had died off. By 10:30 I was heading back to the launch and figured I'd take one last chance on the mangrove shoreline....BAM FISH ON!!!
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24" RED BABY!

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Hanger AF 9-11-10

Cracker11 — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 09:20:05 GMT

Put in at hanger AF saturday with my buddy Steve,water levels were up,mullet were everywhere. I chose a top-water Chug-Bug to match the mullet,within 15 mintes I had a 22" Red smashing my lure
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released it,then moved on to the next school of mullet,where I seen a tail pop up,landed my lure on it`s head,and a 24" red clobbered it
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Called Steve over,and he released a nice 30" Red,and I had a 26" Trout jump all over chug-bug
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Bite shut down about 10:00am,but seen a school of snook,several Sheepheads the size of Trashcan Lids,along with several more 30" + Reds milling around........Beautiful day !
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Not a bunker day,but any day in the NE Corner of the Banana River NMZ,is heaven to me:D
PS. Had a Gator almost crawl in the Yak with me....closest I have ever been to being eaten,and was damn SKEERED :w00t:

NIRL 9/19

psj nick — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 11:23:57 GMT

decided to go for the big ones today.....we got one b4 a local capt screwed us over.

Timmy's 47"er:

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made a move and found some slots....

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Shrimp Dunlawton bridge

impatient — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 18:23:48 GMT

Just got a report of a good shrimp run going on at the Dunlawton bridge. They are being caught in daylight hours with castnets. I was told you can pick them up on a quality depth finder that cast your net over them. I hope someone here gets out and catches themself some. I have to work this week or I would be out there.

40 inch shnook caught on mull head at beach

glitzyfishy — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 11:29:26 GMT

Sebastian 7/21

midnightrider17 — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:28:00 GMT

Live mojarrah off the north jetty on the outgoing tide. Been awhile but I'm glad the fish are back and willing to eat.
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Redfish / June 2010

midnightrider17 — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 22:02:15 GMT

Not posting where I caught them anymore because my places are getting way to crowded for my liking, but everyone who knows me on here already have an idea of where I got them. Past 2 times fishing caught nice reds. this one caught on jumbo shrimp heads was 38"

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and this one was lastnight on a half blue crab and she measured 42"

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also probably 100 dink trout.

Lots of sheepshead

backwater bandit — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 11:04:10 GMT

Got out with a buddy of mine early this morning before the rain rolled in. It was fairly overcast, so I knew that we had a good chance of catchin some fish. Fishing docks on an outgoing tide we pulled out 10 sheepshead. One of the sheepshead was 17" long. We kept a few for dinner as well as a black drum. I don't really like eating black drum so my buddy took it home. We used a small circle hook and a split shot. Tipped with a piece of shrimp. It was a good morning to be out, especially when you start fishing at 6 am and you are done at 9 am. here is a pic of some of the sheepshead and the bdrum.
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Thanks for readin along.

snook in the river in june.

snook fenders — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 16:16:10 GMT