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Fishing weekend in port a
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08/11/18 09:53 PM
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Fished the surf Friday morning with a guide limited on reds and 7 trout, biggest trout was 24.5 inch my bride caught and I’ve been hearing a lot about. I hooked into a big blacktip shark I watched hit, he peeled about 100 yards of drag and bit me off. Took some of a red to Paradise Key and had it blackened for dinner probably the best fish I have ever had either home or out. Hit the south jetty this morning for some more fishing and struck out, just a few hits on lures but no hookups. Surf was ruff, so we called it quits there but wife wanted to fish some more so picked up some shrimp and fished some pilings, caught 5 mangrove snapper and left them biting when our bait gave out.
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Re: Fishing weekend in port a
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08/11/18 10:04 PM
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Heck yeah! Looks like a great trip!
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Re: Fishing weekend in port a
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08/11/18 11:42 PM
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Great job.
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Re: Fishing weekend in port a
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08/12/18 12:56 AM
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Looks like a great trip. What were you using for bait in the surf ?
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Re: Fishing weekend in port a
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08/12/18 01:33 AM
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Croaker mullet and soft plastic is what we threw.
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Re: Fishing weekend in port a
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08/12/18 01:51 AM
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Re: Fishing weekend in port a
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08/12/18 01:56 AM
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Was a great trip first time wadeing in the surf I loved it. Took the wife a little getting used to with the waves but we had a great time.
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Re: Fishing weekend in port a
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08/12/18 04:09 AM
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Nice Never leave mangroves biting though. They eat too well
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Re: Fishing weekend in port a
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Thanks all we had a great trip.
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Re: Fishing weekend in port a
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Nice Never leave mangroves biting though. They eat too well Open for suggestions on how to prepare if you have anything different. We baked fishing with the guide, too much sun and were getting hungry otherwise we would have got more bait and kept fishing. Plus a guy with his 10 or so year old son pulled up told them how to rig what to use for bait and where to throw it, hope they got some. I got a full quart bag of fillets off the ones we caught thinking about pan frying/searing with some kind of sauce.
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Re: Fishing weekend in port a
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08/12/18 05:40 PM
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Re: Fishing weekend in port a
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08/12/18 07:00 PM
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Re: Fishing weekend in port a
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08/12/18 11:34 PM
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Nicely done! (especially the big speck). Paradise Key is a nice place too.
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Re: Fishing weekend in port a
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08/12/18 11:39 PM
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Nice Never leave mangroves biting though. They eat too well Open for suggestions on how to prepare if you have anything different. We baked fishing with the guide, too much sun and were getting hungry otherwise we would have got more bait and kept fishing. Plus a guy with his 10 or so year old son pulled up told them how to rig what to use for bait and where to throw it, hope they got some. I got a full quart bag of fillets off the ones we caught thinking about pan frying/searing with some kind of sauce. Pan frying is great. Google the recipe for trout manure.. It's pan frying with a sauce added. Use cilantro instead of parsley. You can drop a couple of hash brown patties in the same pan and have a complete meal.
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Re: Fishing weekend in port a
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Re: Fishing weekend in port a
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08/13/18 01:30 PM
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What kind of soft plastics were you throwing? Like a sassy shad, and just jigging it back to you? I've never caught anything in the surf except those catfish looking fish, little bitty sharks, a ray(?) and a Jack Crevalle. I'd sure like to catch something I could eat, lol.
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Re: Fishing weekend in port a
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08/13/18 02:15 PM
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TTF Texas Tackle Factory shad/minnow bait pumpkin seed with chartreuse tale on a 1/8th or so lead jig head, steady retrieve or with a bump in it every so often.
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Re: Fishing weekend in port a
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08/13/18 02:47 PM
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Awesome, those blackened reds look excellent.
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Re: Fishing weekend in port a
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08/13/18 04:21 PM
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Re: Fishing weekend in port a
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08/13/18 05:05 PM
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Now I'm all eat up with fish for the moment, cant wait to get back down there and give it another go and I might eat fish multiple nights for dinner this week lol.
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Re: Fishing weekend in port a
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08/13/18 05:21 PM
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Re: Fishing weekend in port a
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08/13/18 09:58 PM
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TTF Texas Tackle Factory shad/minnow bait pumpkin seed with chartreuse tale on a 1/8th or so lead jig head, steady retrieve or with a bump in it every so often. I appreciate the tip Maybe they'll still be biting next month when I go down there.
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Re: Fishing weekend in port a
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08/13/18 11:59 PM
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Awesome, those blackened reds look excellent. That's a tough one to do at home. It smokes up the kitchen.
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