Show off your fish

Caught this brute Father's Day weekend. Measured 83" long but we didn't have access to a scale to weigh it. According to our tide book chart for halibut, it's around 311 pounds. I don't think it was quite that big, but it's easily over 200 pounds. Amazing fish either way!

 

Holy Barn Doors! That's a nice fish!

 

How much do your guide services cost?

 

Well I'm not a guide but I think the going rate up here is 225-250 a head for a charter.

 

You catch big fish though. I'd rather go with you haha.

 

Haha the fishing was actually really poor all weekend. Only landed one other keeper. We were just about ready to call it a day and then I hooked that fish. 45 minutes later I had a dead arm and back.

 

Two dinks up in palomar mtn in San Diego

 

Didnt bring my scale but had a tape...measured 19" best large mouth bass this year...

 

We just cut this bad boy on the laser. I figured you guys would enjoy seeing it.

 

Need

 

X2

 

LOL were going to have a whole line of laser cut wall art very soon.

 

Mini cast rod and reel and a live night crawler... I was night fishing off the bank for catfish.... Talk about excited when i seen this guy!

Never caught a bass close to this size when I'm actually bass fishin LOL

Gar with a bow..

Gar and a mudfish with a slingshot

Best of that night

 

bass is a hog! I hear gar is supposed to be good to eat?

 

The backstrap on the gar is the only thing worth eating IMO. But you better have 1 hell of knife because their "armor" is tough as nails! I use large tin snips. Seriously. Fun to shoot but hell to clean!

But the gar are overpopulating the small local creeks, eating everything. They get huge and then their only real threat is a gator. A few groups of us help keep the population in check... And some of the gar we shoot turns into catfish bait or chum...

 

Went out a few weeks ago on a whim and caught a small cobia on a live bait (good picture). About 20min later a pack of about 5 small ones swam through and I hooked the biggest (about 30-35"if I had to guess), made a good run and jumped like a bass and ended up throwing the hook. An hour after that another pack came through and I ended up getting one that measured 33" to the fork (bad picture, unless you like fish fin and man belly). 10min later a friends rod goes off after he asked me to watch it for a couple minutes, throws the hook. 4hrs later the same guy who I was watching the rod for, hooked up. Fought for about 20-25min and after a bad gaff shot by yours truly, another friend got a good shot and then I came in for a backup gaff. This fish became his first cobia after about 15yrs of trying (last pic). It was most definitely a memorable day on the planks.

The bad picture happens to be the guy who caught the fish. Fortunately I was able to get an alright picture for him.

Edit: all released fish were tagged and reported for future catches.

 

Was at a little bass pond on the hunting camp yesterday... The pond is pretty small, about 1/2 acre. Caught 1 bass... Maybe a 1 pounder if that... No picture of him...

But these cute little fellas kept going after my artificial bait!

Pulled 3 of these guys out the water within 30 minutes.



The baby gators, along with the bass, were all released back in the pond.

 

Only one bite all morning yesterday...

 

Some fishing in the Gulf out of Pensacola. Good eating.