Got bored the other day was down in naples me and some friends of mine pulled off the side of the road on 951 just west of I75. Threw out a couple times and caught this nice bass. It was the only fish caught all day. My friends hated me that day Pictures taken on my camera phone. oh and dont be makin fun of my hair!





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Caught these a few weeks ago behind my codo on the canal I live on.




The first one is a lil bigger than the 2nd. I guessing maybe 27 inches? Caught on 8lb mono. With a small blue bass pro minnow lure. FYI I am about 6'2

Today I caught a 33inch snook but I took the pics whith my camera phone I will post them when I can get them off my phone. It is the biggest snook I have ever caught.
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Cinco de Mayo is a date I will never forget because several great things happened. First the weather man gave a good forecast and it was right. Next we had a great day of fishing for Amberjack using butterfly jigs. Those things really worked and we hooked a fish on every single drop, never getting to the top once without a jack on the hook.

Then on the ride in we literally ran over the back of a whale shark. I mean the head was on the starboard side and tail on the port as we went over at 30 mph. I caught it out of the corner of my eye and stopped the boat amazed we didn't catch it with the prop. I noticed a school of Cobia following and they started swimming to the boat. Luckily we had two live baits left so in they went for a quick double. Then I circled back to the shark and picked off Cobia # 3 using a small buck tail jig. After that the fish boxes were maxed out and I told the clients I would be departing for a short period. The mate brought us in close ahead of the shark and cut the engine. I watched as a 6 foot open mouth came closer and that's when I took my chance. I dove off the bow and swam out about 20 yards as the fish looked at me it slowly turned. I stuck my hand out and made contact with the dorsal and it was electric. I was thinking I can't believe this fish doesn't mind my presence, I can't believe I'm doing this, and i hope I make it back to the boat. I took a ride for about a minute and let go as I remembered I was covered in fish blood from the days earlier catch. So I swam back to the boat in record time and was greeted by cheers from my guests.

One guy said he got some good shots so hopefully I will have a few pics to post.

Here is a pic of the days catch.

I decided with the great weather window I would make a run out to 180ft. I knew the current was going to be strong after my last few trips to 120 and 140 both encountered a fast current. Now I had a full moon on top of everything so I loaded the cannon ball sinkers into the boat and hoped that the extra weights and some power drifting would get the job done.
Once on our spot I decided to try to anchor which worked but wasn't producing a bite. between the current and the pound of weight needed to get straight down I think the fish just wouldn't cooperate. So up came the hook and I started the ole' bump and run. We were able to cut down to 8 oz sinkers and using the motor I could drift parrallel to the wreck even with the current pushing us away.

As soon as the baits hit bottom Ashley would get hooked up and every drop was like that. We were using live pinfish and a lot of times they were inhaled by Donkeys before ever hitting bottom. We kept our Dpnkey limit and saw a couple chasers that were easily over 70 pounds but wouldn't take a pin. I figure if we had a few blue runners the story might be different.

The days catch consisted of trucks, copper bellies, reef donkeys, and only one ARS that took a sardine chunk on the last drop. We used khale hooks and circle and for the first time I felt the circles out performed the khales. We had a few pulled hooks at first and once we switched over to circles we only pulled one hook but lost a few fish to the wreck.

I figured I'd spice it up a little by using some of the weird things I've heard fish called.
Fishing terms defined:
ARS = American Red Snapper
Copper Belly = Gag Grouper
reef Donkey = Amberjack
Truck = Red Grouper

ARS 11 pounds

Copper Belly 22pounds

Reef Donkey 32 pounds

Ashley and her catch

There is a 10 pound truck on that table too.

All said and done it was a great day to be on the water with a good friend. Even better is she hauled in everything except one AJ and we both get to eat like kings/queens. I need to do more trips like that.

The other day was one of those days were everything went just perfect. On the way out of Matanzas Pass we had 5 dolphin (flipper type) jumping the wake and just having a blast. One of them even did a spinning jump from one side to the other and landed less than 3 feet from the swim platform.
The seas were 2-3 and very easy to manage as they were pushing us on the way out. By noon the conditions improved to almost calm at 55 miles out. We had the wreck all to ourselves which was a nice treat and the fishing was pretty good too. We couldn't get the snapper chummed up but the Aj's and cudas insisted on tugging at everything my anglers threw at them. We boated three under 25 lbs and lost a few big dogs and also released several others. We even had the somewhat treat of watching one of the Aj's get devoured by what had to be a 400 pound Goliath only 30-40 feet down.
After getting worn out on Aj's the clients requested something easier to pull in so I headed to some patch reefs in 100ft. The first bait down was a shrimp on 20 lb spinning gear. Before the bail closed the bait was slammed and I was hooked up with a nice grouper. The fish got the best of me and broke me off in the bottom.
So I decided to anchor and throw in a few lines and the clients got much more than we bargained for. Instead of the shrimp attracting snapper they were getting nailed by big red grouper. The first fish in the boat was just over 14 pounds and taken on 20lb spinning gear. Fish #2 would follow soon and was a nice 13 pounder. Now everyone was getting excited so we decided to switch to a 50lb stand-up rod and live pinfish. That bait was hit on the way down and after about a 20 minute fight a 47 pound Carbo was on the deck. The next 2 fish were also red grouper of about 11 pounds and a nice 16 pounder. Now I mentioned the first lost fish that was a grouper I knew that because we re hooked it less than half an hour later. It came up with the leader hanging from its mouth, the J hook stuck in its lip with the shrimp still on it, and spit up 1 crab, 1 maybe sardine, and what looked like a small eel.
If all that wasn't good enough we also boated three dolphin (Mahi type) while pulling up the anchor. They were all around 3 pounds and there was about 20 in the school.
The ride home was nearly smooth and the day ended with huge smiles and cheers at the dock.

The Carbo was 45inches long, 30 inch girth, 47 pounds


One of the red grouper


All the groupers we kept

Well i finished work this morning at 9.15am got some jobs done round the house, dropped the kids off at my mum's at 2.30 grabbed my fishing kit and headed for Rodley canal.

got down to the canal nice and bright but also very windy it was blowing my floats all over, i set up 2 rods :

First rod was my live bait rod i had ton's of little skimmers, roach and perch the best bait i found to catch them was red maggot followed by about 6 to 10 maggots thrown around the float to get them compeating for the hook bait.

Second rod was my pike rod which was the main reason i went down there to catch pike, any way hooked on a live skimmer bream about 4/5" long and while fishing for more live baits i notice my pike float verticle i jumped up and striked from the time it took me to get out of my seat and to get to the rod was plenty of time for the pike to take the bait with out it deep hooking.

Here's the location where i caught the fish !



i then moved around looking for more pike but after i caught the pike the weather calmed down the wind had stopped and the rain had dried up i went searching staying close to the barges as it's a good location for pike because a lot of silver fish are located around them due to barge people leaving there waste foods in the water and plus theres plenty of cover for the pike to take up there ambush possitions.





and here's the money shot trying to control the pike on land and take a picture is really difficult when you only have yourself to do all three things ... lol

Hi there all

thought i would share a few of my pic's with you guy's !!!

okay starting with a few of my pike pic's !!!

Here's me with a few pike just small ones don't have pic's of the larger ones.







Here's my mate with a monster pike !!!


and here's me with the carp shot's i just love fishing for carp they give such a fight

here's my PB mirror carp







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and here's some perch pic's which i had kicking about !

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Enjoy !!!

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You babes are going to have to come fish Australia

Great stuff gals. Oh and those other people too. LOL