Fisher218

6 foot bull shark in a kayak about 900yds out, tried to get back to shore to land him but spit the hook half way back. scared the shit out of me when i first say the grey shape in the water and buttoned down the drag bout half way and tried to paddle back to shore,because im not landing a shark in a kayak by myself that far out i dont care what size it is.

bayougrande

40lb. stergon on a stretch 25 on the west side of gulf breeze(deer point)

stringle

Blue gill in Biloxi Bay. Also, a couple weeks ago in about a 15 minute period; caught one each red and black grouper off a pier on Pine Island (SW Fla). Okay, they were only about 12 inches long, but still!

Pinksnappertrapper

Before hurricane ivan i used to catch legal grouper, snapper, and triggerfish at a spot in the bay. I have fished it and around it a number of times now and havent had a bite.

The LaJess II

Catching a Black Fin Tuna outside of Destin Pass in Oct. Missed the rodeo by 1/2 oz. of winning the tuna. When I say out side of the pass i mean the bouy.

stargazer

caught 12 foot gator on a mitchell 302 w/20lb line in east bay. Hell of a fight and a story!

stargazer

How about a 12ft gator is east bay on a mithell 302 w/20lb line? CAUGHT!

redfish maniac

Redfish in the Mississippi River at New Orleans

Rag-Tag

Wow made me think,

not me but my uncle gave me an article from a Destin or Ft Walton paper about 10 years ago with an article about several (7-10 at least) pretty sizeable (35-60#) cobia caught from the Cinco Bayou Bridge. I didn't even know where that was and thought a misspelled Chico for a few then looked it up and would seem pretty rare to me as it did to the fishermen and journalist.

With us though a couple that come to mind would be a pinfish on the Monsanto Boxes on Halloween day in 91 I believe that was HUGE and ate a live cig on a king leader on top(not sure where it may have swam but started on top) it had to have been 3lbs

Two years ago in really shallow really dirty water off Fourchon, LA we had a sailfish estimated over 100# and a 25# jack cravalle double hook-up. The jack just run of the mill dirty shallow water crap but Jake Adams spindle beak that ate the cheater bait still out the back while fighting a fish off the bow was really cool. "Cajun Bluewater experts" per Bill Butler, fueling at Venice Marinaheard the measurements and first told me "you don't measure the bill too dumb ass" due to the length but when assured of our measuring accuracy said it should have easily been a LA state record and since LA actually keeps an official top ten largest fish of each species on official record it would have no doubt landed in the list of not at the top.

back in the Grady-White days one of my crew Cam Johnson caught about a dozen nice spanish mackerel in a bait net in Bayou Chico, not all in the same throw but after seeing them strike then catching 3 in a toss unknowing what they were and actually looking to catch some of what they were feeding on he had to keep tossing

When I was about 10 and we got our 1st boat a 20' Hydra-Sports and 2 friends of my father came with us to show him how to use the loran etc we used a "spanish galleon" in 17' of water as the "test" because you could see it from the surface and we anchored and I was bored wanting to fish and caught a good trigger and noticed what looked to be A LOT more down there so I cut up some cigs etc and dad would toss a piece or two in to get them swarming then another to raise them a bit and I ended up catching 33 of them 1 on the rod and in a 4' bait net 32 that we kept, we let go probably as many that were from about 12" down to 3" or so, I also caught a spanish mackerel that day in the net

Then the last and by far the best (if really true and mom and dad have always swore it is) my mom and dad were fishing/boating one day while I was at school and I have no idea what kind of fish if any they caught but "right by the #1 sea bouy" which then was just the green one by itself at the end of the channel not in a pair with red #2, they stopped "so dad could pee??" and the lines sunk to thebottom I suppose and they reeled them in and a Zukers Feather Duster that was pretty big with even bigger hooks caught a sanddollar about 8" across by way of the hook passing through one of the 3 (I believe) existing slits (for lack of a better word) on the face of it!! It was brought home alive and that nasty pokey grey but is now bleach white and I still say if that they were lucky enough for that damn hook tofall through there that I should have been lucky enough to catch a 55# king but didn't happen yet, still waiting

salt-life

Bump!!