Post by Aquaholic V on May 31, 2024 17:06:06 GMT -5
A moment of silence please!
Most of you know we have a pet dog, Buster, I would never consider eating him! I love fishing and I love catching Snook, but I rarely kill one to eat, maybe one every year or two. I fish for the sport, not my groceries. I don’t frown on those that like to catch, cook, and eat, that’s just not me. Pelagic fish that I catch, Mahi, Cobia, Grouper, Spanish Mackerel, Snapper over 18 inches, I eat when caught.
Now that I said it, Paul (Kush) and Ron came up from Hollywood to fish with me today, the last day of Snook season and wanted to take home two Snook. We met Stuart Live Bait at 7 for 4 dozen pilchards and it was off to the inlet. Paul landed 1 Snook and Ron landed a small, okay medium Nurse Shark. It was slow and really the wrong tide to fish where we were, I prefer an incoming tide and we were at the beginning of the outgoing tide. We fished outside “The hole in the Wall” where Ron cast over a log and the bait went under the log and got boiled on…..missed fish. He also missed one on the oyster bar on the east side of it. They were sight casting to Snook, that would look and swim away, maybe wrong flavor of Pilchard? We worked our way North and fished some docks where the Snook were chewing really well. Paul put 2 Snook in the boat, including one slot that took an icy bath, I was sad! Ron put 3 Snook in the boat, luckily no slots! We even had a double header on at once. Paul also hooked and fought a Barracuda, which bit him off near the boat. They probably lost more than they landed which is normal, either missing the hookset or pulling the hook. It was definitely busy and fun, although like a visit from a mother in law……we overstayed our welcome and had to move on. We fished the Manatee Pocket without a bite, wrong tide, it was now incoming. Hell’s Gate wasn’t much better although Ron landed 1 Snook and he missed two, including a huge Snookasaurus. We ran out of bait and attention span at 3 and called it a day. Had a great day with Paul and Ron landing a total of 7 Snook, 1 Nurse Shark, almost landing of a Barracuda and Paul got his slot Snook to take home on the last day of season! I’ll be in mourning for days.
Most of you know we have a pet dog, Buster, I would never consider eating him! I love fishing and I love catching Snook, but I rarely kill one to eat, maybe one every year or two. I fish for the sport, not my groceries. I don’t frown on those that like to catch, cook, and eat, that’s just not me. Pelagic fish that I catch, Mahi, Cobia, Grouper, Spanish Mackerel, Snapper over 18 inches, I eat when caught.
Now that I said it, Paul (Kush) and Ron came up from Hollywood to fish with me today, the last day of Snook season and wanted to take home two Snook. We met Stuart Live Bait at 7 for 4 dozen pilchards and it was off to the inlet. Paul landed 1 Snook and Ron landed a small, okay medium Nurse Shark. It was slow and really the wrong tide to fish where we were, I prefer an incoming tide and we were at the beginning of the outgoing tide. We fished outside “The hole in the Wall” where Ron cast over a log and the bait went under the log and got boiled on…..missed fish. He also missed one on the oyster bar on the east side of it. They were sight casting to Snook, that would look and swim away, maybe wrong flavor of Pilchard? We worked our way North and fished some docks where the Snook were chewing really well. Paul put 2 Snook in the boat, including one slot that took an icy bath, I was sad! Ron put 3 Snook in the boat, luckily no slots! We even had a double header on at once. Paul also hooked and fought a Barracuda, which bit him off near the boat. They probably lost more than they landed which is normal, either missing the hookset or pulling the hook. It was definitely busy and fun, although like a visit from a mother in law……we overstayed our welcome and had to move on. We fished the Manatee Pocket without a bite, wrong tide, it was now incoming. Hell’s Gate wasn’t much better although Ron landed 1 Snook and he missed two, including a huge Snookasaurus. We ran out of bait and attention span at 3 and called it a day. Had a great day with Paul and Ron landing a total of 7 Snook, 1 Nurse Shark, almost landing of a Barracuda and Paul got his slot Snook to take home on the last day of season! I’ll be in mourning for days.
