Fishing Megathread: Looking For Big Girls Who swallow

[Deej 76796]

Decent morning. Wind was cold.

 

[Zwylde 812]

A little running of the bulls action yesterday afternoon for my son.  
 

 

[Braff Zacklin 13575]

Edited November 1, 2022 by Braff Zacklin

[Armybrat 40849]

[Judge Roybeanbag 11819]

Last night under the lights was ridiculous.  I personally must have caught 20 trout in a couple hours, some sandies we kept for ceviche, only a couple keeper specks, but the redfish and drum were hitting plastics and top waters.   
 

 

gonna do it again tonight.

Edited November 3, 2022 by Judge Roybeanbag

[Masshole Horn 773]

This is all at the place listed above?

[Braff Zacklin 13575]

6 minutes ago, Masshole Horn said:

This is all at the place listed above?

Uh, piers to be so, sir.

[Judge Roybeanbag 11819]

39 minutes ago, Masshole Horn said:

This is all at the place listed above?

Yeah.  Cooking ribs right now on the provided smoker.  Highly recommend this place particularly if you want kids to catch trout.   The bite at nite is crazy.  

Edited November 3, 2022 by Judge Roybeanbag

[Judge Roybeanbag 11819]

47 minutes ago, Masshole Horn said:

This is all at the place listed above?

🤘🏻

[Judge Roybeanbag 11819]

I has fish.  

I also has nice evening.

 

[Braff Zacklin 13575]

10 minutes ago, Judge Roybeanbag said:

And that's why they call him a hangin' judge.

[Masshole Horn 773]

Pics of the ribs?

[Judge Roybeanbag 11819]

35 minutes ago, Masshole Horn said:

Pics of the ribs?

Here’s what’s left this morning,  fixing to pull the meat and eat on tortillas.  

[Deej 76796]

First bass out of the pond on Camp Mabry this morning.

 

[Deej 76796]

Nice little chunks at Mabry.

 

[Deej 76796]

A guard drove by and told me to go fish a certain corner with a Texas rig worm. 

"There's a 6 or 7 pounder in that spot we keep catching."

Went over and threw a worm. Third cast something heavy starts moving off with my bait, and I miss the hook set. 

Back tomorrow. 

 

 

 

[Born to Run 6569]

Whacked em between fronts. Kept these for the freezer, released prolly 40 keeper trout in 2 hours today barbs ground off.

[Born to Run 6569]

2 minutes ago, Born to Run said:

Whacked em between fronts. Kept these for the freezer, released prolly 40 keeper trout in 2 hours today barbs ground off.

[CoTex 1160]

Big girls are swallowin in Louisiana.

 

 

[CoTex 1160]

Our final score was=
 

5 in the boat.  4 reds over 33”, 1 black drum.

1 broke off at the boat.

Had bites/takes with about 10 fish but somehow or another fucked up a lot today.

Had good shots at about 20 fish.  Drum wouldnt bite and we suck at fly fishing.

Casualties - 1 Winston 9 weight, 12 beers

[CoTex 1160]

Pescado Rojo you’ll like this.  

Buddy is casting - sees two big fish together.  Casts and hooks the small one.  It takes out a shitload of line.  By small I mean probably a 34” red.  Big one swims right behind the boat and is just sitting there.  It’s big.

Guide is snapping his fingers and saying “Cotex grab this other rod and bust the big one.”

So 1 fish on up front, guide trying to get off poling platform, and me trying to get rod out and get behind guide and “snap.”  I broke dude’s expensive ass fly rod, right in my hands.

Then buddy breaks off the small fish.  0-2.

Sorry for partying.

[RMac5 1551]

@CoTex ouch!

[Pescado_Rojo 19416]

2 hours ago, CoTex said:

Pescado Rojo you’ll like this.  

Buddy is casting - sees two big fish together.  Casts and hooks the small one.  It takes out a shitload of line.  By small I mean probably a 34” red.  Big one swims right behind the boat and is just sitting there.  It’s big.

Guide is snapping his fingers and saying “Cotex grab this other rod and bust the big one.”

So 1 fish on up front, guide trying to get off poling platform, and me trying to get rod out and get behind guide and “snap.”  I broke dude’s expensive ass fly rod, right in my hands.

Then buddy breaks off the small fish.  0-2.

Sorry for partying.

Hahaha….cockpit chaos, gotta love it. Where were you guys? Who were you fishing with?

[CoTex 1160]

Port Fourchon - not much here.  

Steamboat Flyfusher has some guides down here for the winter that had a last minute weekend opening so, mountain river guys at the bayou.

[Pescado_Rojo 19416]

1 hour ago, CoTex said:

Port Fourchon - not much here.  

Steamboat Flyfusher has some guides down here for the winter that had a last minute weekend opening so, mountain river guys at the bayou.

Nice. Never fished out of Fourchon, but I've fished out of Leeville and Golden Meadow several times. Mostly tow my skiff over and fish from Cocodrie these days. 

[CoTex 1160]

4 hours ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

Nice. Never fished out of Fourchon, but I've fished out of Leeville and Golden Meadow several times. Mostly tow my skiff over and fish from Cocodrie these days. 

I’ve fished out of Hopedale twice and Fourchon once.

Fourchon was a ghost town.  Only other fisherman we saw were sitting on a bucket on the bank on the side of the road.

Today - clouded out.  1 big ugly in 5 hours of poling and staring at our reflections on the water.  Drank 6 beers.  No gear lost or broken.

[deadshank 24653]

My FIL’s fishing guide took another customer out on the South Holston in eastern TN today. The customer landed this 35” 20 lbs brown.  What a pig!

[ohchaucer 1443]

Good lord that’s a monster.

[MalibuSheriff 1090]

Didn’t know if the fly fishers on this thread had heard the news but we lost one of the greats of the sport Thanksgiving night, Dave Whitlock passed from a stroke.  Dave was the consummate gentleman, one of the most talented people I’ve met in life - art, science, writing, fly design - you name it.

For the fly fishers, thought you all would enjoy these videos - Kelly Bostian, the former outdoor writer for the Tulsa World, spent a day with Dave at his home in Eastern Oklahoma a couple of years ago. He did an original video on Dave instructing proper roll casts: https://youtu.be/Pb47tNX6yvw He released two additional videos recently.  The first is Dave going through an excellent breakdown of a four-part fly cast ( Dave catches a huge rainbow from his spring-fed pond at end of the video): https://youtu.be/XCwBn9YYfx4 The third is Dave going through his fly boxes talking about his favorite flies for fishing in Oklahoma: https://youtu.be/2fl7RC_jfYA Hope you all enjoy. I learned a couple of new things from the master. RIP Dave.  One of the very best of the good guys.

Edited December 12, 2022 by MalibuSheriff

[Johnny Chimpo 478]

I have his book, Guide to Aquatic Trout Foods. Sorry to hear that he has passed on. 

[Masshole Horn 773]

Damn… one of my most prized possessions.

[troph 24805]

Christmas Day catch, mama is very happy!! 
 

 

Edited December 25, 2022 by troph

[Pescado_Rojo 19416]

Spent the week before Christmas in Punta Allen Mexico. Slow week overall. 3 tarpon, a couple snook, fed 2 permit and landed one…and a bonefish to close out a Grand Slam on the last day. 

[troph 24805]

I should neg you for one-upping me.  congrats on the GS though (heard you caught a snook too (4 for 4)).

Edited December 27, 2022 by troph

[DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt 12301]

Where did you catch the perm @Pescado_Rojo?

[Pescado_Rojo 19416]

36 minutes ago, DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt said:

Where did you catch the perm @Pescado_Rojo?

That big flat that runs between Cayo Calebra and the south point of the bay. On the inshore side. 

[DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt 12301]

7 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

That big flat that runs between Cayo Calebra and the south point of the bay. On the inshore side. 

No shit? I always feel like they stop there at the end of the day before crossing so they don’t show up at the lodge early.

Always feels like a throwaway spot to me.

Can’t tell what time you landed it…late in the day or early?

[Pescado_Rojo 19416]

25 minutes ago, DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt said:

No shit? I always feel like they stop there at the end of the day before crossing so they don’t show up at the lodge early.

Always feels like a throwaway spot to me.

Can’t tell what time you landed it…late in the day or early?

Yea, no shit. I always thought the same thing, but whaddayouknow? I caught it around 2:30 or so. Caught the tarpon in the morning at Cayo Calebra. It was cloudy, so we were hanging out there waiting for the sun. There were so big Permit cruising around there earlier in the week, so we were hoping for some sun to look for them. 
I wasn’t even thinking about a slam, but Oscar remembered I had the tarpon already, and we ran up onto that flat after we released the permit, and it took longer to rig a bonefish rod than it took to find and catch the bone. Then Oscar and I sat up front and smoked a joint while his new Jr drove us home. 

[troph 24805]

Very nice two part video on fly fishing from the lower laguna madre up to Sabine pass. Travel by skiff, camp on islands in tents. The guys are on the young side so their pontificating about life is… I’ll say cute. But mad props for doing this trip and for filming it. Quality is good. 
 

I’d do this trip in a heart beat and yeah I’ve ridden around all day fishing hard in the heat so I know at times it would be a miserable experience.

anyway, the extreme adventure and doing in our home waters makes it kinda special.

worth a watch if you can’t help watching fishing videos. 

 

 

[fattyflattie 4639]

4 hours ago, troph said:

’d do this trip in a heart beat and yeah I’ve ridden around all day fishing hard in the heat so I know at times it would be a miserable experience.

Having camped on Matagorda island many times after days of fishing (as a yoot), I can unequivocally tell you that the camping would be the most miserable part.   Even in the easy spots like the air fields, just miserable sleeping with the rattlesnakes, mesquitos, and pirates.  Some of the locals that live in those shacks are worse than the rattlers.  But fun to remember those times. 

[troph 24805]

By day two they were in port Mansfield. So that far south - which I’ve not been south of port Mansfield - would be one night.  The entire trip would have miserable parts but as I tell my kids it’s the memory and being able to say you did something that makes it incredible. I’m pretty sure I could avoid the snakes pirates are another thing I’ll give you, I wasn’t thinking about that. Doesn’t matter I’m not doing it, my first adventure as a middle ager will be crossing the ocean, which I would argue might be more dangerous. 

[fattyflattie 4639]

3 hours ago, troph said:

By day two they were in port Mansfield. So that far south - which I’ve not been south of port Mansfield - would be one night.  The entire trip would have miserable parts but as I tell my kids it’s the memory and being able to say you did something that makes it incredible. I’m pretty sure I could avoid the snakes pirates are another thing I’ll give you, I wasn’t thinking about that. Doesn’t matter I’m not doing it, my first adventure as a middle ager will be crossing the ocean, which I would argue might be more dangerous. 

Don’t get me wrong, I hope to do something similar, seems awesome. Was just stating how the miserableness of the camping is what stuck with me out of all those trips.  Only time I’d worry about the pirates, is matty. It is, after all, pirate country out on the island. 
 

We used to do a lot of evening fish, night gig, attempt to nap, then hit the bay again in AM trips. There are windows in Oct and December you can make it work alright, but the rest of the year, oof. But was always pretty fun, and definitely memorable.  The air fields make convenient spots to camp, but are also snake havens when the Wx is enjoyable.   Once I was old enough to have a boat capable of this, I had made fire a with houses up and down the coast, which would also be a cool trip to try and plan.  

[troph 24805]

Just for the record I think tent camping anywhere at near 50 years old is miserable even if fishing is the reason. 

[Judge Roybeanbag 11819]

15 hours ago, fattyflattie said:

Having camped on Matagorda island many times after days of fishing (as a yoot), I can unequivocally tell you that the camping would be the most miserable part.   Even in the easy spots like the air fields, just miserable sleeping with the rattlesnakes, mesquitos, and pirates.  Some of the locals that live in those shacks are worse than the rattlers.  But fun to remember those times. 

 

3 hours ago, troph said:

Just for the record I think tent camping anywhere at near 50 years old is miserable even if fishing is the reason. 

Yep, I've camped many, many times from Matagorda down to Port Mansfield.  It was tolerable when I was young but now it's just a beating, particularly when you have to haul everything in and out like on PINS.  Also slept in my truck numerous times overnight on Matagorda and at Oyster Lake, sometimes in freezing ass weather.  These days I am all about a VRBO or cheap hotel room.  If you HAVE to sleep on the beach, a tent-cot is the way to do it.  @troph your brother knows it’s a beating even when you’re youngish, if you drink too much.  I’ll never forget him waking up that morning realizing his prized custom rods had been eaten by the surf.  

Edited December 29, 2022 by Judge Roybeanbag

[troph 24805]

He’s still doing extreme shit up north in the cold.

[Al Czervik 1229]

Black Bass out of Onion Creek is black. Bigger ones to be found. 

[hookemATL 11736]

Warmer temps bringing them up to surface to eat?

[Al Czervik 1229]

3 hours ago, hookemATL said:

Warmer temps bringing them up to surface to eat?

Shallow water and hunger. 

[troph 24805]

Achievement unlocked, trout on a streamer. That was a lot of fun! Caught 6-7 this weekend on a float trip nymphing and with streamers, my buddy caught what he called a donkey, pretty large male. I had some males too but they were beat to hell, two looked like the were in a street fight with an osprey, one had a bone protruding from the osprey incident. Anyways… 

 

 

I love this sport. I can’t describe how awesome it is. 

Edited January 8, 2023 by troph

[Zwylde 812]

Finally nailed this pig who has been evading me for the past week.  She and a few friends have been showing up right after dark in the green lights but haven’t been real agressive.  Musta been a little hungrier tonight.  Looks to be between 27” and 28”.  Soon to be grilled 😋.