Other Species Latest Catch Pics Thread

[NYWayfarer]

These might be the last fish I catch of 2021. Last trip was Thanksgiving. Since then we have had some snow and mornings with temps in the teens. I can bank fish 20’s and up, preferably above freezing to keep the ice out of my guides.

 

[thediscochef]

On 11/29/2021 at 12:14 AM, Bluebasser86 said:

Got drug around in my kayak for awhile Saturday. 8lb test on a ML spinning rod, snagged in the dorsal fin with a #5 shad rap. 24.21lbs.

This happened to me with a smallmouth buffalo today, on shore. I'd have a weight for you but I lost it in a landing kerfuffle. Great catch!! Fabulous work on 8lb test, impressive

 

 

"Don't ever hook me or my son again"

 

Lol I know they're not the same species. a Wiper and a little Sandie

This was right before losing a big Buffalo and a biiig hybrid gar, an easy 4ft fish. Kinda glad I lost that one. I don't know how in the world I would have landed it. 10 other LMB today all dinky. The wiper was the highlight for sure, looks like he's been evading the like, eight gar that were swimming around the same part of the river. I can't wait for cat season next year, always a delight on this part of the trinity.

[Bluebasser86]

1 hour ago, thediscochef said:

This happened to me with a smallmouth buffalo today, on shore. I'd have a weight for you but I lost it in a landing kerfuffle. Great catch!! Fabulous work on 8lb test, impressive

 

 

"Don't ever hook me or my son again"

 

Lol I know they're not the same species. a Wiper and a little Sandie

This was right before losing a big Buffalo and a biiig hybrid gar, an easy 4ft fish. Kinda glad I lost that one. I don't know how in the world I would have landed it. 10 other LMB today all dinky. The wiper was the highlight for sure, looks like he's been evading the like, eight gar that were swimming around the same part of the river. I can't wait for cat season next year, always a delight on this part of the trinity.

What's a hybrid gar? Never heard that one. 

[thediscochef]

18 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

What's a hybrid gar? Never heard that one. 

Usually a spottie mixed with a gator, sometimes a long nose and short nose. Most species of gar can mix it up with each other. In this segment of the Elm Fork of the Trinity River I mostly see spotties, gators, and hybrids. Landed one hybrid and one longnose in that spot but doing so without a wire leader is about 5% successful 

[NYWayfarer]

Saturday morning fishing session produced one fish. 3 pound 24 inch Chain Pickerel. On medium light rod with 6# mono it was a nice fight.

 

[bulldog1935]

Arroyo dock fishing results over the weekend - we saw alligator, dolphin, sight-fished a big gar - fished all night with pelicans, blue herons, night herons and egrets

pelicans lining up for carcasses from our fillet stand 

 

18-inch snook caught (and released) on BFS

caught on the same Duo Ryuki as this 45-mm plug, but the smaller 38-mm, 3-g plug

 

Susie's monster speckled trout landed on XUL after two 50-yd runs (fishing under the green lights, which caused the reflection)-

- and added to our best overnight stringer - these are 16"-25", and all schoolie malies that chase bait 25 mi/day -

- a 24.5" schoolie male - biggest male spec any of us have seen , and the state record male is 28" (state record female is 41")

[Jigfishn10]

3 hours ago, bulldog1935 said:

Arroyo dock fishing results over the weekend - we saw alligator, dolphin, sight-fished a big gar - fished all night with pelicans, blue herons, night herons and egrets

pelicans lining up for carcasses from our fillet stand 

Looks like you had a great weekend mi amigo. Congrats on the trip. Wish I was there, we're having some snow come in tomorrow. 

[thediscochef]

Truck dash says 80 degrees, so it was obviously the day to fish below ray roberts dam.

Going back tomorrow before it cools off again.

Edit: just my usual 1/8oz skirtless bladed jig. Got a channel and two LMB at sunset in the lake itself.

[thediscochef]

On 12/9/2021 at 3:25 PM, thediscochef said:

Truck dash says 80 degrees, so it was obviously the day to fish below ray roberts dam.

Going back tomorrow before it cools off again.

Edit: just my usual 1/8oz skirtless bladed jig. Got a channel and two LMB at sunset in the lake itself.

Well we went back today and had absolutely monster results, thought I was gonna break another rod...

 

my mistake was deviating from my usual chatterbait in favor of dough balls trying to catch carps

[bulldog1935]

5 hours ago, thediscochef said:

Well we went back today and had absolutely monster results, thought I was gonna break another rod...

 

my mistake was deviating from my usual chatterbait in favor of dough balls trying to catch carps

be careful, a catfish that small still has a poison sack in his dorsal spine. 

Kayak fishing with my buddies last weekend, they were trying to snag a wayward popping cork, complicated by whatever was on it swimming away. 

When I drifted to it, snagged it on the 5th cast, and turned out to be a hardhead, which still have stinging spines as adults.

[Bluebasser86]

On 12/11/2021 at 6:46 AM, bulldog1935 said:

be careful, a catfish that small still has a poison sack in his dorsal spine. 

All channel and blue cats have the venom in their pectoral and dorsal spines. The spines on smaller fish are just much sharper and therefore most often the culprits when someone gets stuck or cut by one. 

 

Flathead catfish, for whatever reason, do not possess this ability. 

[thediscochef]

11 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

All channel and blue cats have the venom in their pectoral and dorsal spines. The spines on smaller fish are just much sharper and therefore most often the culprits when someone gets stuck or cut by one. 

 

Flathead catfish, for whatever reason, do not possess this ability. 

I'm careful about catfish spines for a variety of reasons, including this. They also tend to carry gram-negative bacteria on said spines so if the venom isn't enough, the potential resulting infection may not be fun or cheap to deal with either. Only been barbed once, trying very hard to keep it that way.

 

[TnRiver46]

[DitchPanda]

1 hour ago, TnRiver46 said:

Yummy

 

[TheBasslayer]

Sorry I haven’t posted in ages, but today I caught my first Snook ever!

[HaydenS]

32 minutes ago, TheBasslayer said:

Sorry I haven’t posted in ages, but today I caught my first Snook ever!

Good job!  Cool looking fish!

[Bluebasser86]

I've been wanting to get out and fish for big catfish all summer, but between tournaments and not having my kayak set up like I wanted to, and not having bait, I've never made it out. Well I got the heavy duty rod holder and backing plates for Christmas, tournament season is over, and I had some shad in the freezer from last weekend, so I gave it a shot. 

 

The spot I was really wanting to fish wasn't productive, not even any little ones chewing on my bait. There is a inflow that I parked next to that was about 3 degrees warmer than the rest of the river and the tiny fish were playing muscial fishing poles, just jiggling one rod tip after the other but never enough to get hooked. I brought a rod to cast a grub with, just for something to do, and I was surprised to catch 2 drum, 2 white bass, and a wiper. Not what I expected, but catching fish when you're doing something different always feels good. 

[desmobob]

Three new species firsts for me in December....

 

Earlier this month, I caught my first Spotted Seatrout and my first flounder on bass casting gear while on a fishing trip to Beaufort, NC (both species took a DOA Shrimp on a light jighead).   I also caught my first red drum, but that was on surf spinning tackle.  

 

I don't have a photo of my trout, but here's one of my buddy's son with his first one.  I'm behind him.  I got a couple of keepers, and they were delicious!  

 

My first red drum...

I only caught two, but they were both in the slot limit so they went to the fillet table.  I didn't get to try them before I headed home but I ate a LOT of oysters and some spotted trout while I was there.

(In the background, you can see that the owner of a 29' Pearson sailboat had a very bad day on Core Banks....)

 

[bulldog1935]

On 12/27/2021 at 7:31 AM, desmobob said:

Three new species firsts for me in December....

 

Earlier this month, I caught my first Spotted Seatrout and my first flounder on bass casting gear while on a fishing trip to Beaufort, NC (both species took a DOA Shrimp on a light jighead).   I also caught my first red drum, but that was on surf spinning tackle.  

 

I don't have a photo of my trout, but here's one of my buddy's son with his first one.  I'm behind him.  I got a couple of keepers, and they were delicious!  

 

My first red drum...

I only caught two, but they were both in the slot limit so they went to the fillet table.  I didn't get to try them before I headed home but I ate a LOT of oysters and some spotted trout while I was there.

(In the background, you can see that the owner of a 29' Pearson sailboat had a very bad day on Core Banks....)

Bob, you should post on FFR Another Spin page - fun photos. 

All the spec fillets we brought back from Arroyo three weeks ago were famous. 

We never froze any, but kept them in ice water until they were spread out and/or devoured. 

There is no better fish fillet anywhere for fried fish or sauteed for fish tacos. 

Lou reported three fish fries, including Susie's beer batter tempura, and a meal of trout with a lemon piccata sauce and tagliatelle (no photo, though). 

 

[desmobob]

We stood around in my buddy's outdoor covered kitchen and dry-breaded and deep fried trout chunks and kept a steamer pot going with all the oysters we could eat.  Many beers were needed to wash down the feast.  My host made a desert pizza to finish the meal... a traditional pizza dough that was spread with Nutella, covered with strawberries and then topped with whipped cream.  ?️

[Team9nine]

Been a great year for crappie; going to miss chasing them as much as I did this year. Hit the local reservoir up yesterday for one last go of it. Water 41-42 degrees, but I found them schooled up deep adjacent to the main river channel.

 

 

[A-Jay]

7 minutes ago, Team9nine said:

Been a great year for crappie; going to miss chasing them as much as I did this year. Hit the local reservoir up yesterday for one last go of it. Water 41-42 degrees, but I found them schooled up deep adjacent to the main river channel.

 

 

Really pretty fish 

Nicely Done Sir.

A-Jay

 

[N Florida Mike]

The bullheads were biting tonite… Cant wait to fry em up later in the week!

[N Florida Mike]

On 12/27/2021 at 4:05 PM, Team9nine said:

Been a great year for crappie; going to miss chasing them as much as I did this year. Hit the local reservoir up yesterday for one last go of it. Water 41-42 degrees, but I found them schooled up deep adjacent to the main river channel.

 

 

What did you catch them on? 

[Jigfishn10]

8 hours ago, N Florida Mike said:

Cant wait to fry em up later in the week!

Nicely done Mike...Sounds like a tasty way to have them...for most of us any way...?