Braggin Board for Fishing!

[GSPHUNTER]

Halibut and White Sea bass. It don't get better.

 

[NY16ga]

I have only seen one ever, not many in my area, but dang they are an excellent eating fish. Nice fish!!!

I'm lucky to have a buddy who has a nice boat and is totally obsessed with these fish. He's got them pretty dialed in. They're a lot of fun though, partially because you can fish for them a number of different ways. Some people like to soak live bait hoping for a monster. Most of the time we take a run-and-gun or maybe spot-and-stalk approach though. Once we get out into relatively open water we start using binos and then when we spot a bunch of birds diving at baitfish (usually menhaden aka "bunkah" in Brooklyn and Jersey), that usually means the bass are feeding there. We'll run just up current of them and start casting plugs into the middle of the chaos as fast as we can. On a good day its about as exciting as any fishing I've ever done, just have to deal with the occasional bird diving for your lure.

And yeah, I agree. One of my favorite fish to eat. Here in NY we have a slot so they have to be 28 - 35 inches to keep, which adds up to a decent amount of fish. One day during the Fall migration my buddy and I caught something like 30 bass each and they were almost all too big to keep. 40-inch fish just smashing topwaters all day. My wrist hurt for three days after but one of the most fun days I've ever had on the water!

 

[cjdewese]

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Where did you head out of if you dont mind me asking?

 

[GSPHUNTER]

Where did you head out of if you dont mind me asking?

Long Beach/San Pedro. 22nd St. landing.

 

[Stalker69]

Fly rod, 21.6 lbs. My best to date. 36 inches.

 

[GAHunterJim]

Cobia


Grouper

 

[rodney482]

 

[GSPHUNTER]

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One walleye and one sauger????? one on right looks like sauger, dark blotchy patterns.

 

[Tjdeerslayer37]

Couple of peacock bass from last year. Fished with Fish Colombia in Cano Bacon. Peacocks, payara, piranha, wolf fish, and various others. Most of the big fish came on big (musky size) spinnerbaits. Trip of a lifetime!

 

[UncleBone]

Couple of peacock bass from last year. Fished with Fish Colombia in Cano Bacon. Peacocks, payara, piranha, wolf fish, and various others. Most of the big fish came on big (musky size) spinnerbaits. Trip of a lifetime!

Gorgeous fish!! I love to fly fish, and hope to one day get to go to columbia for peacocks. But I am gonna have to settle for a trip to florida sometime soon.

 

[Tjdeerslayer37]

Gorgeous fish!! I love to fly fish, and hope to one day get to go to columbia for peacocks. But I am gonna have to settle for a trip to florida sometime soon.

Thanks! The owner of the outfit I fished with is a big fly fisher and they take a ton of guys out who are as well. Highly recommend going if you're able, it wasn't terribly priced but required a good bit of gear I didn't already have.

 

[Muley Buck]

New Melones

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I'm not a big bass guy, but thats a nice one from there. I'm really looking forward to the kokanee this season. It looks like we should have a good one.

 

[bigmoose]

I'm not a big bass guy, but thats a nice one from there. I'm really looking forward to the kokanee this season. It looks like we should have a good one.

Should be plenty of water this year too.

 

[robtattoo]

We had a great couple of hours on the Spanish this past Sunday. They were absolutely crushing Gotchas right at the mouth of the pass at Orange Beach. We spent the entire day trolling chicken rigs & Clark spoons on planers for Kings & no action at all. Right at 7pm the birds started hitting poagy balls & the water exploded with Spanish.

 

[UncleBone]

We had a great couple of hours on the Spanish this past Sunday. They were absolutely crushing Gotchas right at the mouth of the pass at Orange Beach. We spent the entire day trolling chicken rigs & Clark spoons on planers for Kings & no action at all. Right at 7pm the birds started hitting poagy balls & the water exploded with Spanish. View attachment 547453
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Aji, spanish mackeral nigiri, is some of my favorite!

 

[OXN939]

Couple of peacock bass from last year. Fished with Fish Colombia in Cano Bacon. Peacocks, payara, piranha, wolf fish, and various others. Most of the big fish came on big (musky size) spinnerbaits. Trip of a lifetime!

Nice peacocks! My dad, a friend and I fished the Amazon out of Barcelos, Brazil in 2011. Super weird trip... apparently a single drop of Amazon water got into the drinking water supply for the boat, everyone got violently ill except for my buddy who was already on a course of antibiotics from a triggerfish bite he had gotten on a spearfishing trip a few months before. I also got the worst sunburn of my life after taking my shirt off for as long as it took me to eat a sandwich at lunch, with blisters and pus etc. Looked it up and we were within a few hundred yards of the equator so that tracks

Caught a few pretty decent ones the first three days, and then found this one the last morning on a 9" topwater bait. Won't ever forget seeing a 18ish pound fish become fully airborne on the strike, those things are legit like aquatic velociraptors



If anyone is in the panhandle of FL and wants to get up to chase some reds and trout, shoot me a PM. Good bite near Apalachicola last week. Definitely not getting over this yak fishing kick any time soon

 

[rodney482]

One walleye and one sauger????? one on right looks like sauger, dark blotchy patterns.

Both reg eyes.

 

[PVHunter]

Went up north to work for the week as a favor, worked Monday and the guy I was working with got sick… Tuesday I drove 1:45 minutes to meet him and he was sick and called it, then called the next day, then decided to call the week… crap!

Text my buddy to see if he had any trips the next few days and he did, so I figured I’d work for him and salvage the week, and it worked out really good… Thursday-Sunday, Saturday we had 2 trips, and killed a limit of rockfish and lings every trip (Saturday we killed over 100 lings)

Some crazy good quality too, Saturday afternoon we had 2 vermillion rockfish over 12# including one that was just over 12.5# on an odfw scale which makes it a state record… fun few days, and realized how much I missed charter fishing, so I’m going back for the summer

A 12 pound red is an absolute tank. Unreal.

 

[FLATHEAD]

We had a great couple of hours on the Spanish this past Sunday. They were absolutely crushing Gotchas right at the mouth of the pass at Orange Beach. We spent the entire day trolling chicken rigs & Clark spoons on planers for Kings & no action at all. Right at 7pm the birds started hitting poagy balls & the water exploded with Spanish. View attachment 547453
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In my neck of the woods.
I plan to be sitting on the beach in the AM before sunrise.
Spanish eat good dont they?

 

[robtattoo]

In my neck of the woods.
I plan to be sitting on the beach in the AM before sunrise.
Spanish eat good dont they?

Hands down one of my favorites, especially smoked.
I'll give you a shout next time I'm down that way, if you fancy a trip out on the boat.

I was hoping to be down for Snapper opening, but I'm slammed at work that weekend.