Super User SirSnookalot Posted December 16, 2011 Super User Posted December 16, 2011 Started the day with a nice, not long but fairly heavy too big to flip snook, we picked it by dropping a lure on a second rod, lipping the fish and picking it using 2 rods. I do need a photographer that can hold the phone steady....lol Jacks came in 7-8 pounders, totally wasted me for the day, fish are too strong for an old man. Quote
Triton21 Posted December 16, 2011 Posted December 16, 2011 Nice fish Sir. Glad you had a good morning. Kelley Quote
0119 Posted December 19, 2011 Posted December 19, 2011 Nice Jacks. They are super scarce here, heavy netting for them by commercial guys. Only out of jealousy I gotta ask, you kept those Jacks? You dont have a magic receipe for them do you? Also looks stormy there, always done my best for snook as a storm is hitting. Quote
Super User SirSnookalot Posted December 19, 2011 Author Super User Posted December 19, 2011 The Jacks were here for 3 days, weather got calm and they are gone, last seen was Friday morning. The nature of Jacks is to swim at a pretty healthy speed looking for bait, when they find they turn the speed up to warp. They are not really as easy to catch as many think, they get so involved chasing bait, quite often they swim past your lure, if you get one they're isn't much like it. There are great fighting fish and then there are Jacks, in their own class. You're right about snook, harsh weather is best with a 2-4' groundswell, especially when there is little bait around like now. The snook was released, and I personally don't keep fish. Jacks and Cudas never go to waste, someone is always around to take them. Jacks don't taste too bad, and cuda are exceptionally a good eating fish. One of the guys is a cook at a County Club, he takes the fish and serves them to the members, we have orientals serving the fish in their restaurants. Ya never know what you are really eating unless you catch it yourself. Quote
0119 Posted December 19, 2011 Posted December 19, 2011 Yeahwe have the same folks shadow us at the local jetty's. Some actually will run up take it off your hook and run off with your catch! Their favorites are usually anything illegally small. Quote
Bass Junkie Posted December 22, 2011 Posted December 22, 2011 Yeahwe have the same folks shadow us at the local jetty's. Some actually will run up take it off your hook and run off with your catch! Their favorites are usually anything illegally small. Thats just wrong..... Happen a lot down there? Quote
Super User Bassn Blvd Posted December 22, 2011 Super User Posted December 22, 2011 Very nice outing, Stu. You have become quite the fisherman down there at the inlet and thanks for sharing. I would have been one of those gnats running away with the snook, hahaha. As far as jacks go, I'd rather eat seaweed. Jacks are, however, an excellent light tackle fighter and they will flat wear you out after catching a half dozen or so back to back. Btw, I took the boat out to Lake Ida this morning and guess what I caught? 2 peacocks. Thety were small but at least they're back. Quote
Super User SirSnookalot Posted December 22, 2011 Author Super User Posted December 22, 2011 Glad you got some peas. Ties i took my wife to the airport so i took a ride to western Broward county. It's a field day out there, caught quite a few peas and LMB, nothing big. Around my house I can't catch too much in the canals, down there it's like shooting fish in a barrel. Very quite at the inlet or any Sw area now. Quote
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