N Florida Mike

You know it’s been good when it looks like this.

Caught 32 this weekend in app. 8 hours of fishing time.Took a friend fri. Night and he caught a couple small fish too. The biggest was 5.1 ( first fish pic ) Got several 3-3.5 pounders also. Biting really good for the summer. Caught most of the fish on the June bug zoom speed worm . Got 1 on a frog.

I would at least put them in ice . I’ve done that overnight and cleaned them the next day and never had a problem, and I’m in Florida.

One time I was bank fishing with a friend. He bent over and was looking at something in the water. All of a sudden he thrust his hand in the water and pulled out a 2 pound bass. Another time I made a bad cast and it went over the top Cross beam of a dock , which was 10 -15 feet above the water. It came down and landed in the water and a bass got on it immediately. I set the hook and pulled the bass up to the top of the beam but couldn’t get it over . It got stuck there and the bass flopping trying to get loose.It was too high to get to , and we started laughing at the rediculousness of it. I was about to cut the line and the bass fell back in. I have also set the hook and missed a fish , and had the bait go over the boat and land a fair distance away. And a fish get on it then. Another time I was bank fishing in my back yard and set the hook on a fish that broke my line. I yelled a little in disgust but then noticed the broken off line still laying right near the bank and starting to move away as the fish began picking up steam. I jumped over a kayak , landed in the water and was able to grab the line in the same motion. Then I hand-lined it in . 4 pounder!?

I recently tried a beefier off brand hook because they were so much cheaper than the Gammies.Wont ever do that again. Hook up and catch rate went way down.

I’m that way with Gamakatsu hooks. I have a very good catch rate % with them.

Good fish. Don’t know ‘bout that hat tho!?

Caught this poor thing . Skinniest I’ve ever caught. ?

I can relate to what y’all are going through. Like others have said, it has become the “ new normal “ for companies to ditch long time faithful employees. The same thing happened to my wife in 2014. She had been at her dream job for 10 years and had been a great employee as a business analyst.( I still don’t understand exactly what that is) Her company began a merger and they began to micro manage and started trying to find faults in her performance so they could get her to quit. She toughed it out for a year until she got another job . It turned out the new job was even worse, and she was let go after working 24 straight hours and missing a meeting because of it ! Since then she has only been able to get contract jobs that end after 6 months to a year. Her latest contract ends in 3 weeks so we are in the same boat. She is trying to land another full time job. I could live comfortably by myself on what I make , and come close to supporting her too , but we have relatives that live with us that are a huge drain on our economy and apparently don’t care. And my wife won’t put them out on the street with her big heart . So I will probably be working til I drop . My wife will probably retire in 10 years and get a modest SS check. Hopefully she will have something to retire from ! We have each other and have learned that things really don’t bring happiness. It has been a miracle time and time again that we somehow are just able to pay the bills. Yall have my prayers and support.

Got this one before the rain on a zoom fluke in watermelon slice.

Nice. Got this one and a couple of his friends in about 5 minutes using a cut-off Zoom June bug speed worm.

Use a zoom fluke or senko weightless. You’ll get bit!?