2019 Fishing - Bent rods and tight lines

[davidg 4040]

2 hours ago, troph said:

Talking to our guide today he agreed it’s farther out right now. Said second sand bar was far enough. We are going to try and come back down next month and bay fish one day and surf fish end of the day for a week - we will practice the drone shot before we go. Will let you guys know.

Don't know what type of gear you are fishing with in the surf but a couple of surfcasting spining rods and some practice casting them will probably work out better and be cheaper than dunking a drone.

[Lurch 5941]

Gaffs can seriously fuck you up. I had a pretty small one stab me in a knuckle and a solid 6 MONTHS later I could still feel pain in that spot when I pushed on it. They’ve got me good a few other times, but the small one was the worst. I’ve finally stopped messing around with them and use the lipgrip any time I hook one

[Judge Roybeanbag 11829]

3 hours ago, Jiggy-Z said:

We usually just stay in one place and set up a big camp.  3 mile has been good to us.

Yeah, last time I was there over a year ago, we stayed at the LCRA park, got up early, drove down 7 miles or so and ground it out all day, not catching much.  On the way back we saw guys in the surf around three mile catching limits of trout.  Was pissed we didn’t try there first.

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[troph 24929]

Don't know what type of gear you are fishing with in the surf but a couple of surfcasting spining rods and some practice casting them will probably work out better and be cheaper than dunking a drone.

I can cast 30-35 yards easy. Last two days green water was 50 yards or more beyond us. Maybe that’s just due to the storm surge from delta I don’t know. I bet I could get a few more yards but even today the guide was casting crazy distance and I wasn’t that far behind him.

[davidg 4040]

31 minutes ago, troph said:

I can cast 30-35 yards easy. Last two days green water was 50 yards or more beyond us. Maybe that’s just due to the storm surge from delta I don’t know. I bet I could get a few more yards but even today the guide was casting crazy distance and I wasn’t that far behind him.

But that’s not with a 10-12’ surf rod and 4-6 oz of weight, right?  If you want to get out far in the surf you need the right equipment.  

[fattyflattie 4639]

9 hours ago, crash_davis said:

There's no way in hell any of us is going through the extra 20 mins to make fish balls.

I don’t even keep reds anymore because fuck cleaning those things.  
 

5 hours ago, troph said:

Baffin did not disappoint.

It quite literally never does.  Nice trout. 

[Judge Roybeanbag 11829]

2 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

I don’t even keep reds anymore because fuck cleaning those things.  
 

Dude, a 20” red grilled on the half shell, and some cheeks in foil is close to great eating as it gets. 

[crash_davis 23162]

6 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

I don’t even keep reds anymore because fuck cleaning those things.  

dude, what the fuck do you hate everything great about America!!!!!!!!!!!

[fattyflattie 4639]

9 minutes ago, Judge Roybeanbag said:

Dude, a 20” red grilled on the half shell, and some cheeks in foil is close to great eating as it gets. 

I agree, but not enough time for that fancy shit in my life right now.  Figure I’ll get back to better foods when the kids get more self sustainable. 
 

6 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

dude, what the fuck do you hate everything great about America!!!!!!!!!!!

I love to let them go and let someone else have a shot at them. I can still remember when the red fishing was shit, at least compared to today.   I can clean 3 limits of trout by the time I can filet one of those doofy fuckers. 
 

ETA: I only try and keep 3 trout per trip. Keeps me and the wife fed and fresh fish in freezer.   Snapper And tuna I’ll puke away a good chunk and we’ll eat on that forever.  And flounder. Rare I catch then because I throw topwaters until it gets too cold then fish corkys.  Not many flounder between that combo.  But they get eaten without prejudice.  I’m just saving the carp for y’all

Edited October 14, 2020 by fattyflattie

[Judge Roybeanbag 11829]

2 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

I agree, but not enough time for that fancy shit in my life right now.  Figure I’ll get back to better foods when the kids get more self sustainable. 
 

I love to let them go and let someone else have a shot at them. I can still remember when the red fishing was shit, at least compared to today.   I can clean 3 limits of trout by the time I can filet one of those doofy fuckers. 

I’ll admit there were days like these with my boy and my late fil where I did NOT want to clean anymore black drum or reds.  There were more we couldn’t fit on the board.  

[fattyflattie 4639]

One of my buddies takes everything.  Loves him some black drum.  Their family is the type to be out on the water every week, sometimes several times a week.  I dont know how they eat that much fish. 

[Judge Roybeanbag 11829]

I don’t get out as much anymore, but looking back over the last 10 years, it’s amazing the community of fishing and hunting we’ve had here.  The old man I posted in the pic, Capt. Ken took both Texas Ed and Roflbox fishing, then when the whole crew of us went offshore with Justhookit, we stayed at his/our place in Estes.  Guy’s that I’ve been on fishing trips with:

 

Jiggy-z

Snow Dog/Mrmyke

Texas Ed

Roflbox

Doc Holliday (Troph’s brother)

Patrick McHorn 

Tap Dancing Kung Fu Master

TPCJ007

Blain

Hunting you can add in Brisket, Hornian and a couple others.

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[Mac8111 2118]

We gotta put together another group trip. And by we, I mean you.....

[Judge Roybeanbag 11829]

56 minutes ago, Mac8111 said:

We gotta put together another group trip. And by we, I mean you.....

We should, I’ve toned it down a bit the last few years so there would probably be some ground rules.  But it would be nice to rent a house and have a fishathon again.

[4th and 5 4926]

First gut early or second gut thereafter. Cast into the current, along the gut, with a top water. Not across the gut. Parallel to the beach. Super spook or She Dog. White/red heard or pearl chartreuse. If nothing there, then third gut, again into the current. But since you’re not standing in the third gut try for about a 45 degree angle up current. 

[Judge Roybeanbag 11829]

1 hour ago, Mac8111 said:

We gotta put together another group trip. And by we, I mean you.....

Here are some pics from the past couple years.  This is my work crew on PINS, some of the guys that freaked out Jiggy on that one trip.  Most are ex military and have calmed down a bit since then. I’m second from left next to Sasquatch

 

 

some of us at Matagorda 

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[Judge Roybeanbag 11829]

Whiting and trout ceviche on the beach at PINS

[Judge Roybeanbag 11829]

Hunting at my place in Hays, making sausage and music.

Chilling on the porch.

[Judge Roybeanbag 11829]

Those Matagorda gafftop that started this,

[Brew 3049]

3 minutes ago, Judge Roybeanbag said:

Here are some pics from the past couple years.  This is my work crew on PINS, some of the guys that freaked out Jiggy on that one trip.  Most are ex military and have calmed down a bit since then. I’m second from left next to Sasquatch

 

some of us at Matagorda 

That is one big dude.

Got on the Spanish and Jack’s today on the beach. Everything was running including the dolphins which kept it interesting. They were running fish up on the beach with their babies which was fun to watch but a pain for fishing.

On the eating discussion, I’m probably a 99% catch and release person. I’ll occasionally keep something for supper, but lean towards mangrove snapper or sheepshead over reds or trout. I mainly target snook and tarpon, although that’s winding down so I’ll start looking for big reds running the beach. I’m not eating a gafftop unless someone slides it in without telling me. Those slimy bastards aren’t going home with me.

[Judge Roybeanbag 11829]

A cold ass night at Oyster Lake, with lights and limits of trout wet wading at Christmas.

[Judge Roybeanbag 11829]

Earlier this year at Lake Buchanan 

I’m missing a bunch of trips, like the one to the arroyo Colorado where we rented the place at the Y, and one dude fished all weekend dressed like a friar monk.  

[DCA_HORN 725]

Beautiful day on the water today. Got into a couple of schools of dink trout. No reds but caught every other thing. Gafftop, needle fish, sand trout, whiting. Oh well still way better than being inside.

[Judge Roybeanbag 11829]

Fishing at the Nicaragua on pins 

[Judge Roybeanbag 11829]

G&On Justhookits boat back when it was in Port A

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[Judge Roybeanbag 11829]

One of my favorites, fishing the jetty where the shrimp boats come in. 

[Judge Roybeanbag 11829]

Grandpas 1920s Shakespeare skeleton reel and bamboo rod.

 

 

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[troph 24929]

In response to something way up the thread - We gave a bunch of ours to the guide who said he would keep them, eat them or give them away. I hope he does. We took the smaller ones home to eat and we will give half of that away. Not a fan of the larger fish for eating.

And on equipment I’m not sure what we have I think it’s 8-9 foot and I tossed with a 1 oz weight and probably the artificial lures were .5-1 oz. We bought the poles etc all cheap and on a whim just to see if we’d like going out in the surf. I was pretty sure I wasn’t on the money with the set up. I mean the pole and the line test weight were good as confirmed on the web and today with our guide. But weight, floater/bobbers (if any), all of that maybe not so much. I mean I can only absorb so much from the internet at one time. Philosophy of learning some, go out and do it, learn more, go out and do that. Shit the fact I was picking line correctly, tying knots easily and chunking that line out there and pulling in a few fish is miles better than I was doing pre covid.

[troph 24929]

12 hours ago, 4th and 5 said:

First gut early or second gut thereafter. Cast into the current, along the gut, with a top water. Not across the gut. Parallel to the beach. Super spook or She Dog. White/red heard or pearl chartreuse. If nothing there, then third gut, again into the current. But since you’re not standing in the third gut try for about a 45 degree angle up current. 

thank you.

[fattyflattie 4639]

First gut early or second gut thereafter. Cast into the current, along the gut, with a top water. Not across the gut. Parallel to the beach. Super spook or She Dog. White/red heard or pearl chartreuse. If nothing there, then third gut, again into the current. But since you’re not standing in the third gut try for about a 45 degree angle up current. 

I’m a top water fanatic. I fish them too much even, trading off a better lure for the situation in hopes of hearing that toilet flush from a sow, or grenade pop off from a shallow red. But without a doubt, I don’t think anything slams harder in the surf than the OG.





While they are about the most inefficient and dangerous lure to be jacking with while trying to string fish on the 2nd/3rd bar, trout crush these like a freight train. I’m still using new old stock my dad had from when I was a child, with fresh VMCs of course. A classic that still fills boxes today.


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[Jiggy-Z 3469]

14 hours ago, fattyflattie said:

I agree, but not enough time for that fancy shit in my life right now.  Figure I’ll get back to better foods when the kids get more self sustainable. 
 

I love to let them go and let someone else have a shot at them. I can still remember when the red fishing was shit, at least compared to today.   I can clean 3 limits of trout by the time I can filet one of those doofy fuckers. 
 

ETA: I only try and keep 3 trout per trip. Keeps me and the wife fed and fresh fish in freezer.   Snapper And tuna I’ll puke away a good chunk and we’ll eat on that forever.  And flounder. Rare I catch then because I throw topwaters until it gets too cold then fish corkys.  Not many flounder between that combo.  But they get eaten without prejudice.  I’m just saving the carp for y’all

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[fattyflattie 4639]

18 minutes ago, Jiggy-Z said:

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Good catch.  I've been rocking this handle on 2cool and various other sites since I was a kid soaking mudminnows for flounder.  I made the handle so that I could post a picture of two flounder, one 22" and other 24" , that I caught on back to back casts right next to Big Momma's house in Christmas Bay.  Handle seemed fitting for the pic (and I probably thought I was hot shit and had it all figured out then)  Those are still my two biggest flounder to date, both on fresh dead.  Of course I began my artificial only journey a year or two later, and left the backwater drains for the flats.  I used the flounder pounders and whatnot, but then discovered a superspook, good rods, and never looked back.   Don't think I've soaked bait (inshore) more than once or twice since I graduated high school, and don't throw Gulps, so my flounder count is almost nil these days. 

I did specially target them for a sidepot in a tourney a year or two ago , and caught a  solid 16.5" on a white curly tail gulp in mouth of a drain.  The ten years prior, one team would always bank by bringing in a few, and no one challenged them - they'd take the entire $1500 pot.  I showed up having already spent the money in my mind, on cool shit for the boat, and there was like 8 already on the board.  So I guess I can only catch them when anyone can lulz.     I can remember the last one I caught before that (shows you how little I fish for them anymore), but it was on an orange 51MR like I posted above, in the surf about 4-5 years ago.  I remember wondering if I was working it waaaaaaaaaay to slow, or if he came up and nabbed it.  Either way, it was a first for me.  

But make no mistake.  That's one that doesn't get put back for another day, then gets stuffed and baked.  

[Jiggy-Z 3469]

27 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

Good catch.  I've been rocking this handle on 2cool and various other sites since I was a kid soaking mudminnows for flounder.  I made the handle so that I could post a picture of two flounder, one 22" and other 24" , that I caught on back to back casts right next to Big Momma's house in Christmas Bay.  Handle seemed fitting for the pic (and I probably thought I was hot shit and had it all figured out then)  Those are still my two biggest flounder to date, both on fresh dead.  Of course I began my artificial only journey a year or two later, and left the backwater drains for the flats.  I used the flounder pounders and whatnot, but then discovered a superspook, good rods, and never looked back.   Don't think I've soaked bait (inshore) more than once or twice since I graduated high school, and don't throw Gulps, so my flounder count is almost nil these days. 

I did specially target them for a sidepot in a tourney a year or two ago , and caught a  solid 16.5" on a white curly tail gulp in mouth of a drain.  The ten years prior, one team would always bank by bringing in a few, and no one challenged them - they'd take the entire $1500 pot.  I showed up having already spent the money in my mind, on cool shit for the boat, and there was like 8 already on the board.  So I guess I can only catch them when anyone can lulz.     I can remember the last one I caught before that (shows you how little I fish for them anymore), but it was on an orange 51MR like I posted above, in the surf about 4-5 years ago.  I remember wondering if I was working it waaaaaaaaaay to slow, or if he came up and nabbed it.  Either way, it was a first for me.  

But make no mistake.  That's one that doesn't get put back for another day, then gets stuffed and baked.  

I have caught 4 keeper flounder in my life.  One on a rattle trap, 2 more on LSU paddle tail/jig (down south) and the last on  on a popping cork (chicken boy pink shrimp with chartreuse tail), so I feel your pain.  These days I can only hit the salt about three time a year, but I make them count with 5 day four night camping/kayaking trips. 

I throw tops 90% of the time. Bone/glow she dog all day long.  Can't beat the rush.

[4th and 5 4926]

The last couple hundred flounder I caught were all stabbed in the head.

[Lat22 4053]

A Johnson Sprite silver spoon with a shrimp flavored fishbite hanging off the hook was my go to surf lure.  If a fish fry was your goal on that day, you could fill your ice chest with nice sized whiting.

[troph 24929]

I don’t know man three treble hooks sounds like a fucking beat down trying to get out if the slam it hard. Hate those things. Why would you?

[Brew 3049]

9 hours ago, fattyflattie said:

I’m a top water fanatic. I fish them too much even, trading off a better lure for the situation in hopes of hearing that toilet flush from a sow, or grenade pop off from a shallow red. But without a doubt, I don’t think anything slams harder in the surf than the OG.





While they are about the most inefficient and dangerous lure to be jacking with while trying to string fish on the 2nd/3rd bar, trout crush these like a freight train. I’m still using new old stock my dad had from when I was a child, with fresh VMCs of course. A classic that still fills boxes today.


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For top water I fish Mirrolure red/white combos primarily in the surf. I’ve started throwing TerrorEyez pretty regularly if the bait is out in big numbers. Tarpon love the stupid looking things. Past that the standard silver spoon is my biggest go to. Trout/Snook/Spanish will destroy a silver spoon fished off the edge of bait pods. I bet I’ve fished those 3 lures 95% of the time this year yet I still tote a tackle bag full of crap with me thinking today will be the day I throw something else.

[hookemATL 11994]

3 hours ago, troph said:

I don’t know man three treble hooks sounds like a fucking beat down trying to get out if the slam it hard. Hate those things. Why would you?

Pain don’t hurt. 

[fattyflattie 4639]

28 minutes ago, hookemATL said:

Pain don’t hurt. 

The guy I fish with 99% of the time caught a corky to the forearm on the 2nd bar, when we were in high school. Fish still attached, going wild and shit. He just squeezed the life out of it. When he went to get his insurance info, a guy at his mothers work said he could do that trick where you push down and yank it out with line in the other direction.  2 tries later, he had it cut out in the ER. 

[fattyflattie 4639]

3 hours ago, troph said:

I don’t know man three treble hooks sounds like a fucking beat down trying to get out if the slam it hard. Hate those things. Why would you?

If I really get into them in the surf, immediately put on a tout or DOA shrimp.   Something with a single hook that can be rerigged in a second.  But if you want to feel that thunder, 51MR.   I’m sure you could run it with singles if you wanted, I do that with top waters and big offshore rapalas when there’s a lot of wind blown grass or weed.  Still 3 singles in surf would suck too. 

[hookemATL 11994]

If I lose my shit and tell all my clients to fuck off and suck my asshole on my next work call (there is greater than zero percent chance of this happening, I’m heading straight to PINS to surf fish and drink. Fuck 2020. 

[troph 24929]

If I lose my shit and tell all my clients to fuck off and suck my asshole on my next work call (there is greater than zero percent chance of this happening, I’m heading straight to PINS to surf fish and drink. Fuck 2020. 

I told a friend of my I was ready to go back today. Fuck 2020 is right.

[justhookit 4191]

1 hour ago, troph said:

I told a friend of my I was ready to go back today. Fuck 2020 is right.

My (toothless because of cancer) friend that was at the bar Saturday was asking about y’all tonight. She really liked y’all.

When y’all come back in November or whenever we will go to Salty Dog where her friends are. And I’ll still try to steal your pup.

[justhookit 4191]

To clarify Salty Dog is going to try to open Friday for the first time in forever. I’ll update the port a thread tomorrow. They’ve got a large amount of outdoor seating and my favorite bartender on the island.

[justhookit 4191]

No idea what happened there. Just trying to get back on track and post fishing pictures

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[justhookit 4191]

Well ok I guess they stay. Despite deleting on edit pics seem to stay. So in order - me with lightning

collage of marlin 

monkey posing with mom on a mangrove tour in Costa Rica 

Harvey damage

random bad Fishing pics 

idiot sinking boat offshore port O’Connor after hitting shrimp boat

badass place outside los suenos called villa caletas 

random Covid pic I’m sure I posted months ago on here

 

[justhookit 4191]

Wtf. 
I guess this is the weird shit on the banner? @immamac

I can’t post without it inserting pics or vids I didn’t choose

[justhookit 4191]

This could get weird.

[troph 24929]

My (toothless because of cancer) friend that was at the bar Saturday was asking about y’all tonight. She really liked y’all.

When y’all come back in November or whenever we will go to Salty Dog where her friends are. And I’ll still try to steal your pup.

I drank more beer during the OT and at the gaff than I have in a long time. that captain said he was a jolly fella when drinking beer, I guess I’m not as obnoxious as I think either when I’m pounding IPAs. Truth be told she probably liked my girlfriend more. She’s the real keeper. I’m just a tall queer chick with a give-a-shitter that went out a while back and decided the rules don’t apply to me anymore.

 

But we’d make the local news if you stole our Jax. Just say when though and we’ll send you the breeders contact info.

[troph 24929]

What the hell happened to Got’em On?!?