I Was Hoping Bassn Blvd Would Show Up

[SirSnookalot]

I needed him this morning. Not long after he posted this morning I hooked into tarpon, after an acrobatic display, which would have made a nice highlight reel, I did tame this beast and held it at bay along the sea wall. I don't have a good pic of a tarpon and had my cellphone with me, so I'm yelling to some guy to grab my rod and the fish next to the sea wall while I got my pier net. After a leisurely walk I hand my rod to this young man and proceeded to get the net from my car, not more than 20 paces away. Wasn't my day, after keeping the fish pinned down this fellow loses it for me in less than 10 seconds........Could I expect more from a mangrove snapper fisherman?.............lol.

[Hyrule Bass]

just goes to show that you should always be prepared and have everything you need or might need with you. i lost a potential state record crappie at Smith Mtn Lake a few years ago because i didnt have the net down at the dock with me and water levels were down. rather than try to run up to the house and get the net and risk the fish flopping around and getting off in the water, i laid on the dock, grabbed my line and tried to slowly pull it up to where i could atleast lip it. got it up to where just the tail was left in the water and it was almost in reach and feeling confident i was going to land this thing, all of a sudden SPLASH. fish falls off into the water, turns out it bent my thin gold abeerdeen hook and fell right off. i never made the mistake of leaving the net up at the house again, and if i did i would march back up the steep hill to get it before the first cast was made...

[Diggy]

Hatcam next time young chap

[SirSnookalot]

Fishing that particular spot I'm always walking back and forth. Even if my net was out of my car already the chances of me being close to it usually is slim. The problem was the fisherman not being able to keep the fished buttoned, I know Bassn would have no trouble, lol. Most of the fish I catch in that spot don't go real big, I can lift or spring most of them out, probably the average fish only goes 7-8# there. Other places I fish, much of the time I have a pier net with me, dropping a pier net 10-12' or more and holding on to the rod at the same time isn't easy, best done with 2 people.

[Bassn Blvd]

Man, that really blows. I guess the tourist got left behind when the rest of them went back north for the summer, lol.

You know, I woke up this mornng staring at my saltwater gear in the corner of my room and thought about coming out there. The cuda tubes i saw in the bait shop the other day brought back fond memories of my pier fishing days as a kid. I think I'm going to buy one this weekend and meet you out on the jette next week for some fun.

In-shore fishing is so much fun. There are so many hard fighting species that you never know what you're going to hook in to and be in an awesome tug-of-war. I feel bad for those people who can't break away from the freshwater and experience the thrill of fishing the BIG pond.

[SirSnookalot]

Man, that really blows. I guess the tourist got left behind when the rest of them went back north for the summer, lol.

You know, I woke up this mornng staring at my saltwater gear in the corner of my room and thought about coming out there. The cuda tubes i saw in the bait shop the other day brought back fond memories of my pier fishing days as a kid. I think I'm going to buy one this weekend and meet you out on the jette next week for some fun.

I hope you do.............best time for those bigger cudas on a tube is the incoming tide, I'll give one of my homemade tubes, not that they work better but are made with better tubing and last longer. The cudas we have been catching this week are small, dinner table size, mostly caught on live bait. I got bored with it , so yesterday I went to Juno beach and jupiter inlet, not a strike on anything, and didn't see anyone else catching fish. My buddy got his boat back from service, haven't been offshore in nearly a month, heading out this morning for some hopeful offshore action.

[Bassn Blvd]

I heard there are BIG mangrove snapper moving in shallow, like between the reef and shore, down aroung Gulfstream and Boynton. I didn't know the guy but he was talking about it in the tackle shop the other day. I was actually thinking of going out on the drift boat one morning for some bottom fishing but I havent been on the "cluster" boat in many years.

I'll take my bass boat out if it's calm enough. I'll take it out of Palm Beach inlet though. I don't trust the Boynton inlet with a bass boat, even if the ocean is calm. .