Afishionado Posted March 24, 2016 Posted March 24, 2016 Any salty dogs in the house? Post up some pics if ya got em! My biggest redfish to date at 50.5" ... Sadly I was on a solo mission and this was the only picture I got of it.. 40" Black Drum I sightfished with a plastic shrimp on super light tackle.. that thing fought me tooth and nail My boy is a junior slayer! We get em at night too! And in the ocean! Saltwater definitely runs through my veins but man I have been a hell of a time learning how to bass fish lately.. it's a great change of pace.. 5 Quote
Super User Darren. Posted March 24, 2016 Super User Posted March 24, 2016 Those are some absolute beasts! Big bull reds, eh? Not much of a salty guy even though we live right by saltwater. We occasionally fish of a community dock, but more my kids than me. I'm pretty much a fresh water bass fisherman though and through. 1 Quote
Super User .ghoti. Posted March 24, 2016 Super User Posted March 24, 2016 I'm in the middle of Illinois. Saltwater is a danged long cast for me. Great pics. Awesome fish. I'm jealous. 2 Quote
Afishionado Posted March 24, 2016 Author Posted March 24, 2016 33 minutes ago, Darren. said: Those are some absolute beasts! Big bull reds, eh? Not much of a salty guy even though we live right by saltwater. We occasionally fish of a community dock, but more my kids than me. I'm pretty much a fresh water bass fisherman though and through. Chesapeke bay has the biggest redfish in the world! Quote
Super User Darren. Posted March 24, 2016 Super User Posted March 24, 2016 3 minutes ago, Afishionado said: Chesapeke bay has the biggest redfish in the world! I'll take your word for it! I thought Louisiana had that title. Maybe just the fishing shows make it look that way. Quote
Afishionado Posted March 24, 2016 Author Posted March 24, 2016 7 minutes ago, Darren. said: I'll take your word for it! I thought Louisiana had that title. Maybe just the fishing shows make it look that way. Louisiana has some big ol pond donkeys too.. and they are as dumb as a bag of hammers.. You can bonk them in the head with a lure 5 feet from the boat and they will still destroy it.. Nothing like that over here.. our reds are so pressured it's like fishing for 30lb bonefish.. they can hear a mouse peeing on cotton 3 Quote
Super User everythingthatswims Posted March 24, 2016 Super User Posted March 24, 2016 Don't get me wrong, I love bass fishing too, but the salt is just something else. And if I had a choice, I know darn well which one I'd pick. 3 Quote
Global Moderator Bluebasser86 Posted March 24, 2016 Global Moderator Posted March 24, 2016 As an avid multispecies angler, is really hurts to be so far from saltwater where there is so much variety. I've only been to the ocean a few times and caught a handful of species of saltwater fish and none of the more popular ones. I'd love to be able to haul my kayak someone some day and fish some canals or lagoons though. Unfortunately, I'm about as centrally located as it gets. 4 Quote
dave Posted March 24, 2016 Posted March 24, 2016 Love the stripers, bull reds and pups on the Chesapeake Bay and it tributaries. Quote
Super User 00 mod Posted March 24, 2016 Super User Posted March 24, 2016 I love the Salt. If anything ever happens to my job here I will move straight to the blue water somewhere! My first Blue: Jeff 4 Quote
Dillo Posted March 25, 2016 Posted March 25, 2016 No salt in Colorado, but i'll definitely be going back to Florida! 2 Quote
Super User gulfcaptain Posted March 25, 2016 Super User Posted March 25, 2016 Here are a few, the 2 amberjack went back free, the bigger one was well over the 100lb mark. And that wasn't even the biggest one I hooked, but the biggest I managed to stop. 4 Quote
Super User N Florida Mike Posted March 26, 2016 Super User Posted March 26, 2016 I bet you were sore for a week after you caught that AJ!! Quote
Super User Chris at Tech Posted March 26, 2016 Super User Posted March 26, 2016 Yessir, count me in on the salty dogs. See my avatar! for starters Got a trip to HHI next week and my guide is on the bull reds so should be fun! 2 Quote
desmobob Posted March 26, 2016 Posted March 26, 2016 I love the salt! I've been making a trip to Cape Cod to fly fish for stripers for 22 consecutive years. I've fished the Gulf of Mexico and the Gulf of California (Dorado on the fly). My biggest saltwater fish was a small Striped Marlin off Loreto, Mexico on spinning tackle. Tight lines, Bob 1 Quote
Super User gardnerjigman Posted March 26, 2016 Super User Posted March 26, 2016 7 hours ago, Chris at Tech said: Yessir, count me in on the salty dogs. See my avatar! for starters Got a trip to HHI next week and my guide is on the bull reds so should be fun! Gonna get ya one of those 2500# great whites? Lol 1 Quote
Super User Chris at Tech Posted March 27, 2016 Super User Posted March 27, 2016 23 minutes ago, gardnerjigman said: Gonna get ya one of those 2500# great whites? Lol Yes - I respooled my 4000 Stradic with 2 lb test so I have enough line capacity to wrestle one in 3 Quote
Super User buzzed bait Posted March 28, 2016 Super User Posted March 28, 2016 On 3/24/2016 at 8:54 AM, 00 mod said: WHOA!! that puts my little mahi to shame! Here's a nice little mess from the last trip to the keys..... Always better when you catch more than your loud mouth boss too!! I'll be back there in Mid-May to go round 3!!! 1 Quote
Super User 00 mod Posted March 28, 2016 Super User Posted March 28, 2016 That one was pretty full grown for sure! I was on my tippy toes too! Jeff 1 Quote
Super User buzzed bait Posted March 28, 2016 Super User Posted March 28, 2016 7 minutes ago, 00 mod said: That one was pretty full grown for sure! I was on my tippy toes too! Jeff i'll tell you what man, hooking that first mahi and then seeing the school just flock to it is something i will NEVER forget! i'm a saltwater idiot, just never fished the salt growing up so that was just a sight i'd never seen. and the color on those fish is otherworldly! i'd have had to change my underwear if i hooked that one in your pic! 1 Quote
Super User Catch and Grease Posted March 29, 2016 Super User Posted March 29, 2016 I don't saltwater fish much but I would do it more if I could... I love when my uncle takes me out on the flats! 1 Quote
Catch 22 Posted March 30, 2016 Posted March 30, 2016 Wow,so many good fish pix.Condrats to all Here are some flounder,sheephead and a 40 lb rock 2 Quote
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