fishing reports

[Bill]

First Tarpon!

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Nice!

Never caught one but hooked one under the Sanibel FL. bridge with real light tackle. We were grouper fishing. he spooled me...but it was cool watching him jump as he did it.

Were you jigging? need some details.

 

[swat1018]

Nice!

Never caught one but hooked one under the Sanibel FL. bridge with real light tackle. We were grouper fishing. he spooled me...but it was cool watching him jump as he did it.

Were you jigging? need some details.

We were fishing in the Caloosahatchee river near Ft. Myers. They were on the bridges the day before, but not that day. Spooked a couple in the river on a pretty shallow flat. Threw out 3 lines with big chunks of mullet. 10 minutes later I was hooked up. Mine was about 110-120 lb., I would guess. Got back to our spot and threw out the lines, 15 min later my buddy was hooked into a giant. Took him an hour and 20 to get it boatside and probably a mile and a half. His was a fish of a lifetime, around 200#. He was shot after that...

 

[swat1018]

Buddy's fish. Buddy on the right, with our guide. 2/2 on tarpon, not a bad day.

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[Bill]

Boat left dry ground last weekend. 2 hours to home port normally but in the mid Atlantic spring south east winds mean
FOG. thank God for Radar. The trip took a bit longer.

A casino in Atlantic city leaving the inter coastal waterway.


got worse in the Ocean. But we made it.

 

[H20fwler]

I've duck hunted right there in the bay at Atlantic City a couple times! Cool area, serious tide shifts. ^^^^^^

 

[Telemark]

Got a bunch of pollock Easter weekend. Made Norwegian fish cakes, which were incredible.

 

[bigbendmarine]

Been super busy work-wise of late, but snuck in one pond-management bass fishing trip with a good buddy last week. Ended up with a pretty nice stringer of fish though we didn't land any giants -- had one or two nicer bass jump and get unbuttoned.

 

[Bill]

I've duck hunted right there in the bay at Atlantic City a couple times! Cool area, serious tide shifts. ^^^^^^

I've spent hours, 45 minutes south in the bays duck hunting over the years. It's kinda cool shooting birds in sight of beach houses..

And tides.....yes they are serious. Can't lie, I parked the john boat up a ditch during high tide once and walked to hunt the bank of the bay. When I got back to it, it was 400 yards from any water

Good thing I had a sandwich because we had to wait for the tide to come back in.

 

[woodyjeremiah]

8lbs 11oz and 28”. Might be the biggest bass I’ve ever caught but not the heaviest. She was pulling me wherever she wanted in the kayak.

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[H20fwler]

My oldest son is on his annual bass fishing trip, he just caught this one.

I haven't caught a banded bass or walleye in 25 years.

 

[Telemark]

I can't see any of your photos

 

[Catscratch]

I can't see any of your photos

Same...

 

[Bill]

I can't see any of your photos

Same...

I’m working on this but not getting far. The image host “Imgur” seems to be throttling back out server. I had to join Imgur to see if I can get support from one of their mods. So far I can’t log in because their system is to busy??? At least that’s what it says when I try.

H2, upload the pics directly to our server and any Imgur issues are taken out of the equation.

 

[H20fwler]

I can't see any of your photos

 

[Telemark]

No way! I've never seen that before. What's the story with that? Did you report it? Are you allowed to keep it?

 

[swat1018]

Lots of tagged fish on St. Clair this year.

 

[Catscratch]

Get a prize or something?

 

[BuckSutherland]

I planned a trip to the BWCA in NE MN for myself, my brother and my 2 nephews (12 and 17). We went from May 29-June 3. First time for all of us. We were fishing east of Ely on lakes connected to the Kawishiwi river. We caught:

300-350 walleyes (biggest was 26", second biggest 25", a couple dozen from 20-23", 100s from 15-20")
100-125 smallmouth bass (biggest was around 20")
25-35 northerns
1 lake trout (3lb)
1 bluegill

We ate about 40 walleyes in 4 nights. Baked in tinfoil twice and fried in peanut oil twice. My brother and I made it nearly 25 miles out from our entry point to fish lake trout (our base camp was 18 miles from EP). I did the most miles in the canoe. Probably put on 75 miles in 5 days. Went through 1.5# of leeches (about 50 dozen). Had spectacular weather. Had a great island campsite all to ourselves and rarely saw another person fishing anywhere close to us. Cant wait to go back. Still looking for my first lake trout.....

 

[H20fwler]

No way! I've never seen that before. What's the story with that? Did you report it? Are you allowed to keep it?

Yes, you report them kind of like a waterfowl band. The DNR of whatever state or province does studies on certain species at times on survival and migration. They are made out of some kind of stainless or monel material.

I’ve got a few floating around in my tackle box from years ago. I’ve gotten fish tags/bands from Ohio, Michigan and Ontario fishing Erie and St Clair off of bass&walleye.

 

[H20fwler]

Get a prize or something?

Nope, just the tag.
Our local lake has done dorsal tagging with crappies, then they run a summer long Crappiethon for prizes from local businesses on specific tags like coolers/BBQ grills/fishing gear ect…with the grand prize being $10K or something like that for a certain tag. People pay to enter the contest and local economy gets a boost from the fishing traffic.