Fishing 2017

[kevin bingham]

daaamn!

 

[BOTS]

Whoa Ray!...Whale of a fish...did you happen to find Jonah in there?? lol

 

[Bodean]

Man, that's so cool!

 

[vharrison]

Wow, we might have to come up and hang out with you!

 

[Limbrat]

Come on V, I'm striving to be as good a fisherman as Chester Reese!

 

[Limbrat]

This slot sized red smashed a topwater in about a foot of water, big fun.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Get it on the grill!

 

[FireFighterZero]

Thats great!

 

[Limbrat]

Get it on the grill!

Tomorrow! Redfish on the half shell (filleted with scales on cooked on the grill) is mighty fine. Come on over Jim, we got plenty.

 

[Limbrat]

Another wore out lineman and I made our annual trip across the bay to fish the freshwater lakes on St. Vincent Island. We caught 59 bass, about as many big bream and had some real close gator encounters as they tried to eat our lures and fish. I kept four bass for the table and released everything else.

 

[Bodean]

Cool Gators.

We rented (10$) boats 15 years ago and rowed around the Louisiana state arboretum...the gators were many and big....people looked at us like we were idiots/bait for not having a powerboat big enough to get away.

Met some gator cullers for the State...

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[MasterBlaster]

What's the worse that could happen?

lol

 

[cory]

Ray is livin da life!! Great pics

 

[Limbrat]

Funny Deva. They pretty much leave you alone unless you've got something they want to eat or you get close to a nest. I retired from guiding gator hunters last year, the dark to daylight stuff is not as thrilling as it used to be. Besides, I need all the beauty sleep I can get.

 

[squisher]

Crazy gator pics. Cool fishing trip even by your standards Ray.

 

[Limbrat]

Sea trout were biting good this morning. I think I could've sunk the boat with 'em. I just had to leave.

 

[squisher]

 

[Chris E]

great haul, how do they rate as a table fish?

 

[Limbrat]

Really good Chris, one of my favorites.

 

[MasterBlaster]

What's a table fish?

 

[woodworkingboy]

He means for on your plate.

 

[squisher]

Butch. Would that be enough meat for one of your meals?

 

[MasterBlaster]

It's enough for me as long as I don't have company!

Is there a non-table fish? A shark, maybe???

 

[stig]

Greenland shark would be one.
Unless you buried it in the ground for about a year first.

 

[Limbrat]

Is there a non-table fish?

Although you can eat about any of them, some are much better than others and some are just plain nasty. Ladyfish are beautiful, aggressive, great jumpers, fighters and one of our most numerous species through the summer but are just plain nasty to eat. I saw schools yesterday that probably numbered in the hundreds of thousands.
I'm not a shark fan either. If blacktips are gutted when they hit the deck and immediately immersed in a super cold salt/ice slush to stop the skin urination/ammonia build up process, they are not bad but with so many other better fish, I don't bother unless a visitor just wants to try one.
Puffers are outstanding, but if you nick their gall bladder and it gets on the meat, there's a good chance that six of your friends will give you a lift into the back of a big black station wagon. I fillet them without opening the body cavity.