Good Roll Going

[SirSnookalot]

46 incher and Moray

[bassman31783]

Sweet. I just hope you didn't try and "lip" any of those to get em in the boat. ;D

Looks like a little blood on the concrete in the moray pic.

[Siebert Outdoors]

Nice catchin! those are some cool pics

[mrlitetackle]

good stuff......the cuda's are great fun....

never caught an eel.....cant imagine their much of a fight though...

[SirSnookalot]

A cuda strike is nothing short of awesome, there is no "nibble", they slam it at full speed.  The rod is practically jerked out of your hands.

Unfortunately you don't catch them everyday, they may be around but won't strike or not around, they often miss the hook and the tide has to be timed.

I've gone many weeks without getting a strike.

[Cracker]

those pics are sweet but you need to adjust your camera settings. Everytime I look at your pics it messes with my eyes!

[Fish Chris]

Cool catches ! That Moray would freak me out though ! Firstly, because I know their bite is stronger than $### ! And secondly, because they don't just lay their stiff, like a "fish out of water" but rather, those things can snake around and get their mouths wherever they need it to be, to cause damage !

We had small ones in the fish stores, and even those use to freak me out.... more than poisonous Lion Fish even !

Peace,

Fish

[Bassn Blvd]

If there is one thing I seriously like about saltwater fishing is you never know what your going to catch, even when your targeting a specific species.

There is an eel about 4-5' long that has made a particular bridge I snook fish from his home.  It's like pulling in a tire, awesomely strong creatures.

We'll have to take my bass boat out and fish some local docks as soon as the yachts vacate for the summer.  BIG snook.

[SirSnookalot]

I've heard a local snook guide fishes under the lake worth bridge as his go to spot, boat ramp right there too.

[Mattlures]

I used to spear fish a lot when I was in my 20's. One day I decided to shoot an eel to eat. Very greasy and mostly fat. Not worth eating. Our cudda out here dont get very big. a 10lber is huge and the meat turns mushy real fast. They are an absolute blast to catch though! That cudda of your is a beauty

[Low_Budget_Hooker]

I used to spear fish a lot when I was in my 20's. One day I decided to shoot an eel to eat. Very greasy and mostly fat. Not worth eating.

I'll have to disagree with you there Matt.  I stayed in Hawaii for 6 weeks once.  Went fishing with the locals to gather food for the luau that weekend, one of the guys sisters was getting married.  We speared lots of Octopus, smaller reef fish and I got me a huge moray (took 2 of us to wrangle it, we were using elastic loaded hand spears).

The only thing I ate at the luau that weekend was the calamari and the BBQ's eel.  It's almost like a dried meat when they are done with preparing it and it was actually delicious.  I was surprised.

I also learned that night that chickens like to sleep in trees, craziest thing I ever saw.  :-?

[SirSnookalot]

Where we fish cudas run 40-48", I guess 15-30#, but have heard of bigger ones.

People down here line up in hopes of being the recipient of a cuda caught, they are delicious.

Always wonder why they are not considered gamefish, good eating, difficult to entice a strike, and fight like the devil.

[Bassn Blvd]

SirSnook,

Cuda are very good to eat.  The Bahamas sell it in the restaurants.  You won't find it over here though.  Cuda meat can become contaminated and make you very sick.  I've heard it's mostly abundant in the bigger cudas and never eat one over 2 feet.  And that they get the disease from eating certain reef fish.  I think it's mostly B.S.  Cuda meat is very white and tasty.

[SirSnookalot]

And that they get the disease from eating certain reef fish

Absolutely correct.  The irony is we order fish like snapper (hundreds other) in a restaurant and that's what the cuda are feeding on.

The toxin is ciguatoxin

[LCpointerKILLA]

And that they get the disease from eating certain reef fish

Absolutely correct. The irony is we order fish like snapper (hundreds other) in a restaurant and that's what the cuda are feeding on.

The toxin is ciguatoxin

ciguatoxin is fairly common in large cudas, its not worth the risk, in bad cases it can last for months, that would be horrible. FWC says to never eat on especially a big one, and especially not a big one from the biscayne bay or the keys...

[SirSnookalot]

Caught another nice cuda on a tube this morning.......guys were lined up for me to give that fish away, they can't get enough of them.

[Micro]

Great pics.  But I'm seeing them in negative.  I noticed that on another site - some pictures were inverted.  Wonder if it has something to do with the new IE8.

[SirSnookalot]

Could be Ie 8, my pics are just fine.  I didn't like ie8, went back to ie7, which wasn't easy.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957700/#ALTWin6

I'm using google chrome now instead of ie and it's faster.

[1inStripes]

Aren't cudas enticed with a figure 8 motion like people do with muskies and pike if they follow something to a boat?  

[SirSnookalot]

I really don't know about a figure 8 motion.  What we do from a pier is to use a surgical tube that is suppose to resemble an eel.  This is not rocket science, just cast and retrieve at a very quick speed. Generally it's all about timing the tide, they seem to come around mostly within minutes of the tide changing from in to out.  They may eye the tube and not hit or just chase it then swim away, actual hits don't happen everyday and they miss the hooks a lot.

This is a very difficult fish to catch, then the fight is awesome.

I caught one on light tackle this morning using a jerk bait, one of the premier battles I've had in a long time, it only went about 10#.

I been on a great roll, getting one almost everyday lately.