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What is your most unusal catch nearshore/inshore. Came to mind after learning about snapper and grouper in the bay and the white shark reported hanging around.
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| A 2 lb stingray in Lake Monroe, Florida. Lake Monroe is over 100 miles from the ocean. I thought that was pretty bizarre.
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Grouper
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| Cowfish on the seawall at Perdido Pass after a tropical storm.
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| I caught a large mouth bass at the lillian bridge once. it was after a ton of rain a few years ago. i imagine the salinity was low enough for him to make it over there. there sure werent anything but catfish and that bass in the bay at the time.
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Snapper
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| If I remember correctly someone caught a chicken dolphin in east bay last year.
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i caught a sheepshead in blackwater river when i was a kid. caught it while bream fishing with wigglers.... also almost caught a gator gar while camping at Ft Mcrae a few months back. it swam under my boat and hung out for awhile. i even touched its back once when it got too close
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| buddy caught a barracuda out of a kayak about 200 yards from the beach my daughter has caught an eel and a pufferfish from the dock ( not sure how common that is) Mine = 4.5 ft Dusky shark
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| 150# Tarpon. while catching hard tails in between the sand bars last year i had a pod roll up and hooked up with a 9 and a half foot silver monster. was out there for kings and ended up getting my first Tarpon ever. released unharmed to fight another day. did i mention i was on a Kayak, using 20# test ,40# steel tip-it,7500 penn , on a medium action star rod. oh yeah, by the way. he beat my ass for about an hour and a half. Capt. Ollie, Bloody Waters Kayak Fishing Team. 
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Jhoe (7/3/2009)
If I remember correctly someone caught a chicken dolphin in east bay last year.I was on the pier in Pensacola about 10 years ago and some guys had several Chicken dolphins. How common is that? Cool Tarpon story. I think some dickhead cut my first Tarpon off with his prop last weekend. I'm not sure it was a Tarpon but in a few years after I tell the story 100 times I'll be sure that it was. (it was a huge fish coming out of the water alot...about 100yds away.
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can't think of much that beats the kayak sail fish story recently.
lots of great fish caught close to shore...but still...........a SAIL FISH from a KAYAK?!?!?!
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I caught a 31 inch red snapper at the 3 mile barge out of Perdido Pass a few years ago. It was late Sept or Oct and the wind was howling out of the north. 3 miles was as far as we dared and it was rough there. He hit a flat line and a cigar I was drifting for king.
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Caught a lookdown in the sound by Hurlburt under my dock lights.
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| See manatees in the spring & fall migrating. See sturgeons also migrating. the beach is a interstate to alot of diffrent species. even whales. They usually come from the east in the spring, Back to the east in the fall. See big gator gars on the beach. never know what you'll see.
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| I caught a 16 inch red snapper not too far offshore...apparently they're rare so you can only keep 2
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| a 38 lbs blackfin tuna 10 miles offshore back in 07.
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King Crab (7/5/2009)
See manatees in the spring & fall migrating. See sturgeons also migrating. the beach is a interstate to alot of diffrent species. even whales. They usually come from the east in the spring, Back to the east in the fall. See big gator gars on the beach. never know what you'll see.about 3 years ago. had a manatee scare the piss out of me when i was wade fishing just after sunset on the grass beds near shorline. made my buddy freak too. havent seen another since. but have seen otters in texar by the trussle.
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| Seen trigger fish, Snappers, groupers, Aj's , All off the p- bch pier. at Diffrent times of the year. Black fin tuna, sailfish, heard of yellowfin, Seen larger marlin jumping furthur out. Guitar fish, & a whole lot more.
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My Uncle hooked one of those small rubber kid's toy great white sharks in the surf years ago. Hooked it right in the mouth like it ate. That was really weird. He's kinda skittish, so not knowing what it was he was tellin' my cousins to "Get back,get back!" I mean even if it was real it was like what.......12-15 inches long. I guess all he could see was all those white teeth
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My fishing partner caught a trigger fish under the bridge going to Perdido Key.
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King Crab (7/5/2009)
Seen trigger fish, Snappers, groupers, Aj's , All off the p- bch pier. at Diffrent times of the year. Black fin tuna, sailfish, heard of yellowfin, Seen larger marlin jumping furthur out. Guitar fish, & a whole lot more. Marlin from the pier? Blue or white? Once heard a rumor of someone catching a white marlin in P'cola bay. Anyone heard that? Are kings ever caught in p'cola bay?
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tons of kings in the bay. they should be showing up now and will just get more plentiful as the summer goes on and the menhaden get thick in the bay. several good kings landed each year from palafox and around 3mile.
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almost forgot my dads weirdest catch.. it was a long long time ago back when you could keep bull reds. heck it might have even been before there were a limit on them, i dont know how long ago that was though.. anyways, this is how my dad tells the story. he said he was slaying the redfish in the pass. catchin the big bulls, one right after another and then all of the sudden they stopped biting. all of the sudden his rod doubles over and he fights the fish for awhile. gets it to the boat and its a tuna!! i dont remember what kind of tuna it was but im guessin YFT. they get it weighed and it was 63lb 6oz!! if anyone else told me this story i would probably be kinda doubtful but my dad told me so i know its true.. how common do yall think this is? i havent ever heard of anyone else catchin a tuna that big close to shore, much less in the pass!
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| I caught a striper in the sound in Navarre a few years ago.
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Jighead (7/5/2009)
King Crab (7/5/2009)
Seen trigger fish, Snappers, groupers, Aj's , All off the p-bch pier. atDiffrent times of the year. Black fin tuna, sailfish, heard of yellowfin, Seen larger marlin jumping furthur out. Guitar fish, & a whole lot more.
Marlin from the pier? Blue or white? Once heard a rumor of someone catching a white marlin in P'cola bay. Anyone heard that? Are kings ever caught in p'cola bay?
My grandfather use to tell me stories of how there were Marlin in Pensacola Bay in the 30's.
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I caught a 1 1/2lb mullet on a 5 inch Zoom super fluke while trout fishing, in the mouth not snagged.
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| 4-5lb snook in Grand Lagoon, (Panama City.)
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| i have a couple that stand out to me.....first was a little over 3 years ago just after Hurricane Katrina....fishing in some ponds in Harrison County just off Biloxi Bay we caught several speckeled trout, flounder and redfish.....also heard of several others doing the same thing especially over in Hancock county. figure they got displaced with the surge as the ponds were totally covered..you could taste and feel the salt in it just like out front. heard one instance in Hancock county of guys catching trout in a pond and having one of them bittin in half and ended up being a 5 foot blacktip shark was in there too. i highly doubt this is still happening since it is going on 5 years now so i doubt the salinity of the ponds will still support the saltwater fish but maybe they adapted to a slow change back or something and might still be in there.....havent really thought about it again till now so might have to check it out again soon. the other was a couple weeks ago while floundering...was walking and just sticking the gig in the sand going along and felt something pull hard on the gig....looked back at it and could not see anything...bottom not churning just something under the sand pull on the gig....had no idea what was and was not about the stick my hand under the sand to find out what it was so tried to pull it up with the gig but it came off and then out of the sand. it was some kind of big eel about 6 feet long and as big around as my arms at least. looked like the ones we catch offshore at times in deep water but this was in 6 inches of water. could not really tell what color it was but it either brownish or redish i think with a really big head and mouth. have seen several shrimp or sand or grass eels floundering but never anything like that. even crazier than that was when it came out of sand it just kinda turned and faced me for a few seconds then dug itself back into the sand from the tail first and this thing was able to dig itself in and totally disappear within maybe 2 seconds....all six feet of it gone like that. kinda creeped me out for a few minutes....makes you wonder what else is buried in the sand.
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I once caught a Spider Crab with a body the size of a volleyball while fishing for white trout in the turning basin ar NAS. it got all wrapped up in my line, I thought I had some debris, boy, what a surprise!
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about a year ago i had a 14" bass jump in the boat when i was turning around in the end of a canal...started to keep it but didnt..caught a cowfish in a cast net, it was about 7" long, i believe the biggest i've seen
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jvalhenson (7/6/2009)
i have a couple that stand out to me.....first was a little over 3 years ago just after Hurricane Katrina....fishing in some ponds in Harrison County just off Biloxi Bay we caught several speckeled trout, flounder and redfish.....also heard of several others doing the same thing especially over in Hancock county. figure they got displaced with the surge as the ponds were totally covered..you could taste and feel the salt in it just like out front. heard one instance in Hancock county of guys catching trout in a pond and having one of them bittin in half and ended up being a 5 foot blacktip shark was in there too. i highly doubt this is still happening since it is going on 5 years now so i doubt the salinity of the ponds will still support the saltwater fish but maybe they adapted to a slow change back or something and might still be in there.....havent really thought about it again till now so might have to check it out again soon. the other was a couple weeks ago while floundering...was walking and just sticking the gig in the sand going along and felt something pull hard on the gig....looked back at it and could not see anything...bottom not churning just something under the sand pull on the gig....had no idea what was and was not about the stick my hand under the sand to find out what it was so tried to pull it up with the gig but it came off and then out of the sand. it was some kind of big eel about 6 feet long and as big around as my arms at least. looked like the ones we catch offshore at times in deep water but this was in 6 inches of water. could not really tell what color it was but it either brownish or redish i think with a really big head and mouth. have seen several shrimp or sand or grass eels floundering but never anything like that. even crazier than that was when it came out of sand it just kinda turned and faced me for a few seconds then dug itself back into the sand from the tail first and this thing was able to dig itself in and totally disappear within maybe 2 seconds....all six feet of it gone like that. kinda creeped me out for a few minutes....makes you wonder what else is buried in the sand. Did it look like this? 
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