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outdoors a fishing thread

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Top to bottom, left to right on the bottom picture, the HUGE partial filets you see which are better seen in the other pictures is a kingfish aka king mackerel, below that on the left is a mangrove snapper or grey snapper, then to the right is a mutton snapper, then to the right the longer fish is a cero mackerel, then bottom left is a strawberry grouper, bottom right is a hogfish
 
Took the boat out again recently and had a great day of fishing. On the water and motoring into this glorious sunrise by 6:30am.
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Once the sun was up, it was off to hide in the clouds for the majority of the day which was fine by me. It doesn't get much better than this.
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First location which was about 10km from shore and the Flathead were plentiful. About three were released to each one kept.
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Also caught a small Mackerel which was kept for bait, and this tiny Snapper which was released. 
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The second location produced the biggest Flathead for the day in the first five minutes, and this 40cm/15" Snapper about ten minutes later.
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This Banjo shark was also caught and released unharmed. 
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A great surprise to see out on the water was this pod of ten or so bottle nosed dolphins. 
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The days catch.
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SR. 
 
Pr0digal_son said:
Fished a nice little limestone influenced headwater stream loaded with Brown Trout parr last weekend. The main stem is one one the famous limestoners in PA and has blizzard hatches,but it was super heavy after bad rains and almost too dangerous to fish. We made an effort but just too rough. Some larger browns were moving up into the tribs to spawn and my buddy hooked one on the first cast of the trip. It spit his fly when he went to scoop it up under the belly. I specifically told him to bring a net as it's way easier for me to photograph fish,plus it's safer on them. Well he didn't and it screwed him this time. In the photos you will see he went and grabbed it after I bitched at him. It didn't matter though because we caught all parr stage Browns and smaller Brookies after that.
 
First photo is a small section of a mountain that broke apart. You can see the limestone chunks and it's the reason why this region of the state has fertile valleys good for farming,and also high alkalinity streams loaded with invertebrates and trout.
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Nice brookies!
 
Brah you really need to get yourself a Tenkara fly rod for small water.
 
The one I have goes out to 13 feet and I use a furled leader and 5x tippet.
 
The setup allows for a completely drag free drift as you can keep the entire line/leader off the water.
 
Catchem' up!
 
texas blues said:
 
Nice brookies!
 
Brah you really need to get yourself a Tenkara fly rod for small water.
 
The one I have goes out to 13 feet and I use a furled leader and 5x tippet.
 
The setup allows for a completely drag free drift as you can keep the entire line/leader off the water.
 
Catchem' up!
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Those are Brown Trout parr.
 
I have been looking at those rods but leaning more towards a small bamboo rod. If you took a 13' tenkara in where we fish you would be swearing and cussing all day. We use 6'-7' glass 2wts and have to bow and arrow cast 40% of the time. That stream I posted above is what I would consider "wide open". The picture below will give you a better idea. 
 
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BigB said:
Top to bottom, left to right on the bottom picture, the HUGE partial filets you see which are better seen in the other pictures is a kingfish aka king mackerel, below that on the left is a mangrove snapper or grey snapper, then to the right is a mutton snapper, then to the right the longer fish is a cero mackerel, then bottom left is a strawberry grouper, bottom right is a hogfish
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Smoke that kingfish! Used to eat that in FL. So good!!!!! Make a dip, eat with crackers.
 
The Hot Pepper said:
 
Smoke that kingfish! Used to eat that in FL. So good!!!!! Make a dip, eat with crackers.
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that was definitely a smoker sized king. they do make great dip, unfortunately my mom's indoor smoker is at their house and they have gas and i have an electric range lol. do NOT want to go down there unless necessary haha. Definitely had to ghetto fillet him to get him into the cooler because he was twice the size, then made steaks out of the fucked up fillets
 
Pr0digal_son said:
 
Those are Brown Trout parr.
 
I have been looking at those rods but leaning more towards a small bamboo rod. If you took a 13' tenkara in where we fish you would be swearing and cussing all day. We use 6'-7' glass 2wts and have to bow and arrow cast 40% of the time. That stream I posted above is what I would consider "wide open". The picture below will give you a better idea. 
 
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Oddly enough I've never caught a brown trout, even though I spent some time in MT one year.
 
Rainbows and cutbows mostly.
 
The spots on the browns in your pics fooled me into thinking they were a char.
 
Sweet pic in the snow.
 
That for true combat fishing.
 
texas blues said:
 
Oddly enough I've never caught a brown trout, even though I spent some time in MT one year.
 
Rainbows and cutbows mostly.
 
The spots on the browns in your pics fooled me into thinking they were a char.
 
Sweet pic in the snow.
 
That for true combat fishing.
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Here is a char for you,and a young invasive bow. They are moving into the native streams in the highlands much like they have in the Smokies and other appalachian streams. Still popping wulfs at the end of december!
 
 
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Those fish in fist order streams are definitely eking out a living! We have large ones in the bigger systems and especially in the limestone tribs. They get 24" and 6-7#.  Rainbow eggs are destroyed when water temps get below 40 F. I'm guessing the mild winter/springs we had the last couple years are helping them take hold in the headwaters. I don't discriminate,but a lot of wild trout anglers aren't happy about them hard dicking our natives around.
 
Pr0digal_son said:
Those fish in fist order streams are definitely eking out a living! We have large ones in the bigger systems and especially in the limestone tribs. They get 24" and 6-7#.  Rainbow eggs are destroyed when water temps get below 40 F. I'm guessing the mild winter/springs we had the last couple years are helping them take hold in the headwaters. I don't discriminate,but a lot of wild trout anglers aren't happy about them hard dicking our natives around.
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Interesting that out here in the Yosemite valley area and others they doing work to eradicate brookies from native rainbow waters. I guess both sides of the nation had fairly ignorant stocking programs up to the 60's and 70's.  :doh:
 
hogleg said:
 
Interesting that out here in the Yosemite valley area and others they doing work to eradicate brookies from native rainbow waters. I guess both sides of the nation had fairly ignorant stocking programs up to the 60's and 70's.  :doh:
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Still going on over here. Our state and clubs stock class A wild streams with bows. They could double up on marginal and warm water streams giving bait and opening day fisherman more chances to catch fish. It would improve the wild populations also.
 
ColdSmoke said:
never heard of rainbows being invasive before...browns, yes but not bows. Interesting. 
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Browns are invasive to this country,and bows are to this state. They are a west coast fish brought here for I'm not sure what. I know they are much cheaper for the state to stock. Introduced might be a better term for me to use. But it is foolhardy to stock those egg chompers in the fall while brookies are spawning.

Browns aren't frowned upon here as much because they are more challenging to catch,hold up to warm temps better,and when the hatches are on,they will rise more than bows. And they add substantial revenue to Central PA limestoners when the larger mayflies start hatching.
 
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