Helluva_Engineer

Never fished up there, but further south in the Indian River I have success throwing mirrolures around sandy openings in the grass flats.

Not so sure on the first one. Likely a white grunt, maybe dog snapper. Hard to tell on my phone. Second one is a red snapper. Pointy anal fin is the giveaway.

Oh wait, fishing. Yea, nice catches and I agree, sure would be nice to have mahi fishing in Atlanta.

I've seen copperheads and rattlesnakes swim. No, I'm not crazy enough to use a real one as bait much less a live one. The number is not correct, though, I am sure.

I have always preferred fighting from stand-up gear myself. Landed one pacific sailfish from the chair at the mate's insistence, asked for the belt after that.

Sounds like you need some beach fishing before you hit the piers. That'll help stretch out the back.

Recently, my wife and I spent our spring break in the Abacos. We caught a few random "trash" fish. Caught a lot that were the wrong species of grouper (nassau grouper are engangered and were released) or weren't the right size snapper. but we eventually dialed it in.and got some keeper mutton and mangrove snapper as well as helped clear out the lionfish population... Overall, good times were had and we only HAD to fish for about 10 minutes a day to secure dinner for our trip....the extra time spent was a nice reprieve from our other activities. A highly recommended destination from me.

I feel like we should just have a sticky on this forum for sirsnook's rod and reel setup advice. My personal recommendations for the best all purpose combo: Penn Fierce 5000 with a rod to match 20# braid, leader depends on target species Recommended lures: Mirrolure Mirrolure Spoon Mirrolure This setup will catch ANYTHING you come across. You might be a bit overpowered for small jacks, but I have caught large tarpon and sharks with this setup.

There aren't. Don't. If you're going the charter route, you'll be fished out as that's a pretty good time of year. Enjoy the plethora of bars to drink the soreness away.

Looks, to me, to be around 100-150 lbs. Back then, that probably fed the family for a while. I hear they're good eating. Now illegal to harvest of course, though I personally think there should be limited harvest as they tend to take over certain reefs.

Never from a boat bass fishing. I've had a few slipped on the bank up to my ankles incidents, but nothing noteworthy. Once kayak fishing off the beach for tarpon. Forgot my drag was on and made the choice to go in instead of flip the kayak. Managed to grab the kayak as the tarpon pulled me for a good while in the water. Sailing, I've sank a boat which kind of counts and capsized hundreds of times (mostly for fun/training). When I'm docking my sailboat, I have to dump the right amount of speed as I come into the dock scurry past the mast and forestay then time my jump onto the dock with bowline in hand... In a small boat pretty much any of those steps can and have put me in the water at some point or another.

All you need is mirrolures...vary the size/color, but mirrolure works well for both fish. Try to find the sand to grass transition.

I'm a big fan of the ending of the Tech-Georgia game yesterday. 4th quarter starts tied 14-14 UGA kicks FG to make it 17-14 GT drives to make it 21-17 with ~4 min left GT recovers squib kick at the UGA 30, seem sure to win UGA recovers fumble, drives and takes the lead with 0:18 left in the game GT gets enough yards to kick a 53 yard field goal as time expires to send it to OT GT scores in the first period of OT, but the PAT is blocked GT intercepts a pass to end it.

I wanted to be an engineer, became an engineer. Not the field I was intending to go into, though. It's still early in my career, though, so I may still transition.