got1on
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Post by got1on on Jun 27, 2023 14:56:37 GMT -5
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Post by joekat46 on Jun 28, 2023 2:43:15 GMT -5
Wow! Nice one.
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Post by JS84 on Jun 28, 2023 7:26:13 GMT -5
Didn't have a measuring tape but my sandal is 13" long tip to tip. Figured he was 30-32"  |
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Post by 4ward on Jun 28, 2023 10:00:21 GMT -5
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Post by JS84 on Jun 28, 2023 10:01:25 GMT -5
Nice one Brian!
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Post by skunkdog on Jun 28, 2023 11:24:15 GMT -5
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Post by skunkdog on Jun 28, 2023 11:26:06 GMT -5
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Post by 4ward on Jun 28, 2023 11:31:59 GMT -5
Yes it is. I sold it last fall. |
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Post by skunkdog on Jun 28, 2023 11:37:08 GMT -5
Yes it is. I sold it last fall. I have an H22, I love it just don't use it enough. |
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Post by fla cracker on Jun 29, 2023 5:43:21 GMT -5
 Jupiter inlet in either 1977 or 78. Caught free-lining a pilchard along the whole in the wall. I'm not sure what my dad was focusing on, as he only got a 95% of the fish! |
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Post by Tarponator on Jun 29, 2023 12:24:17 GMT -5
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Post by JS84 on Jun 29, 2023 12:30:13 GMT -5
That's quite the linesider, even holding it out
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Post by 4ward on Jun 29, 2023 17:08:53 GMT -5
View AttachmentJupiter inlet in either 1977 or 78. Caught free-lining a pilchard along the whole in the wall. I'm not sure what my dad was focusing on, as he only got a 95% of the fish! No doubt that our paths have crossed. The 70’s put me at Jupiter inlet, Juno pier and the Earman river spillway( which was 200 yrds from my back door). I was young with older brothers, these are the places I learned to fish. Snook got in my blood early. |
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Post by fla cracker on Jun 29, 2023 19:35:29 GMT -5
View AttachmentJupiter inlet in either 1977 or 78. Caught free-lining a pilchard along the whole in the wall. I'm not sure what my dad was focusing on, as he only got a 95% of the fish! No doubt that our paths have crossed. The 70’s put me at Jupiter inlet, Juno pier and the Earman river spillway( which was 200 yrds from my back door). I was young with older brothers, these are the places I learned to fish. Snook got in my blood early. Originally from Lake Park. I spent my high school years in Jupiter and Juno Beach. I also spent a good amount of time on the pier, mostly snagging croaker to take back to the inlet. Probably the best snook fishing in mid 70's was off Blowing Rocks. They use to be up there literally by the acre! I would bet we crossed paths more than once. |
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Post by 4ward on Jun 29, 2023 19:57:52 GMT -5
Miss Penny ( shultz??) ran the pier at that time. I would get cold and tired while my brothers were fishing. ( I was 7 or 8), I would go sit in the office with Penny and she would give me mr. Pibb and cheese crackers for cleaning the floaters out of the bait tanks.
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Post by james14 on Jun 30, 2023 22:18:36 GMT -5
I got a 42" off the beach last year. I'll have to try and dig up a photo off my phone.
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Post by dockedwages on Jul 1, 2023 10:30:12 GMT -5
 Not sure this is PB but one on my phone at this time. Shoreline, gulp jig on 10lb braid, near a culvert. |
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Post by lemaymiami on Jul 2, 2023 5:26:30 GMT -5
Here's our best over in the Chokoloskee side of things a few years ago, taken with a leadhead sporting a Mr.Wiffle tail, my anglers were very pleased... We carefully released this big girl back into the shallow bay we found her in....  As Kenny Brown said when he saw the pic... "Not many that size around..." "Be a hero.. take a kid fishing Bob LeMay (954) 435-5666 |
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Post by fishwater on Jul 2, 2023 10:00:18 GMT -5
 this one was 41", spawned out. caught early Aug. 2013 under a bridge. Ate a white gulp mullet on a spro 1 oz white/red bucktail jig I landed one 44", caught back in sept 2003 Pine Island (Hernando County), but drive w pic corrupted. Ate a lg mud minnow netted. Ive had two that were pushing the upper 40's but one broke the net and got away, another was too big to pull up or grab from along a seawall and broke free. And thats why I continue to try. One on Zman and one on Gulp 4" shrimp. 2 weeks ago i lost another real slob, over 40". They all seem to come on 20 lb to 30 lb leader. |
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Post by chronicbreak on Jul 2, 2023 15:04:04 GMT -5
Here's our best over in the Chokoloskee side of things a few years ago, taken with a leadhead sporting a Mr.Wiffle tail, my anglers were very pleased... We carefully released this big girl back into the shallow bay we found her in.... As Kenny Brown said when he saw the pic... "Not many that size around..." "Be a hero.. take a kid fishing Bob LeMay (954) 435-5666 Very nice fish. |
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Post by lemaymiami on Jul 4, 2023 7:33:25 GMT -5
We were actually trout fishing on a bad weather day over towards Fakahatchee in the 10K area. This was their first trip with me... Over along the east coast there's lots of big girls but in the 'glades a big big snook - is shark food all too often...
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Post by flconch53 on Jul 6, 2023 7:55:28 GMT -5
I think sharks are a real problem in managing snook population. Earlier this summer I was catching snook and small tarpon off my dock most evenings. Then 1 evening a saw alot of sharks around my dock and in the creek some small but also a few scary ones. Near as I could tell they were mostly bulls. It maybe a coincidence but I haven't seen or caught any snook since.
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Post by lemaymiami on Jul 9, 2023 7:26:04 GMT -5
A shark can't catch a healthy fish that's not on a hook - mostly... The areas we fish in the backcountry and coastal areas of the Everglades are loaded with sharks of every kind - and every other specie of fish all living in close proximity. The moment you hook a fish in warm weather it's struggles will immediately draw hungry sharks - unless you quickly land it for the release (or the cooler..). I tell my anglers that catching a second fish at the same spot is a tough deal since once they're alerted the hungries are ready to go... Any released snook will usually head for cover while it recovers... An hour or two later it's back in shape but a tired fish is easy pickings for any hungry shark -and most of the ones that eat our reds, trout,snook, or snappers - aren't exactly big fish at all -usually less than seven feet long - but very very hungry...
As far as any "snook spot" goes -they're at that location for a variety of reasons - but bother them (catch and release a few) and they'll find somewhere else to hang out.... In my areas many many great snook spots don't hold a single fish these days - not because of sharks - it's those young goliath grouper (from ten to fifty pounds) that have taken over a lot of snook spots.. Once the goliaths move in - the snook just leave and won't come back as long as the goliaths are there (can't say I blame them...). We're literally over-run with them in the glades - and the FWC still hasn't done a thing to deal with the terrible imbalance that exists only because the goliaths have been protected now for more than 30 years...
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Post by whitebacon on Jul 9, 2023 14:03:35 GMT -5
A shark can't catch a healthy fish that's not on a hook - mostly... The areas we fish in the backcountry and coastal areas of the Everglades are loaded with sharks of every kind - and every other specie of fish all living in close proximity. The moment you hook a fish in warm weather it's struggles will immediately draw hungry sharks - unless you quickly land it for the release (or the cooler..). I tell my anglers that catching a second fish at the same spot is a tough deal since once they're alerted the hungries are ready to go... Any released snook will usually head for cover while it recovers... An hour or two later it's back in shape but a tired fish is easy pickings for any hungry shark -and most of the ones that eat our reds, trout,snook, or snappers - aren't exactly big fish at all -usually less than seven feet long - but very very hungry... As far as any "snook spot" goes -they're at that location for a variety of reasons - but bother them (catch and release a few) and they'll find somewhere else to hang out.... In my areas many many great snook spots don't hold a single fish these days - not because of sharks - it's those young goliath grouper (from ten to fifty pounds) that have taken over a lot of snook spots.. Once the goliaths move in - the snook just leave and won't come back as long as the goliaths are there (can't say I blame them...). We're literally over-run with them in the glades - and the FWC still hasn't done a thing to deal with the terrible imbalance that exists only because the goliaths have been protected now for more than 30 years... Agree 1000% with you about both snook and jewfish. I said this a long time ago, and I will say it again, any Jewish I ever caught, any size, had their throat cut by me. Before I left Florida for the Carribean, even up in Lee and Charlotte we had small Jewish everywhere, and drove the snook of spots much as you described. I imagine it's much worse today. |
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Post by whitebacon on Jul 9, 2023 14:04:53 GMT -5
Not my PB, but a good one.  |
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Post by One Man Gang on Jul 24, 2023 13:59:28 GMT -5
It took a lot of digging but here are a couple decent fish from days past...  |
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