You look to be struggling holding up those fish.

Gave the boat to my daughter. This was my last trip.

Here's where on o' my friends wanted to get in on my limit. Oh I miss the ol' Bayou.

"Gave the boat to my daughter" Did she drill holes in the hull and use it as a raised garden?

She pulled it back to Florida with her Honda Civic Hybrid, put a Bimini top on it, kept it for 5 years and sold it for more than I paid for it.

When I see ol' salts in a boat like that, I pay attention to where they are and what they are doing. Typically, they out fish me.

Most saltwater fishermen follow the guides and birds . The guides and birds followed me.

All I can say to that is SOOOOOONNN!

My favorite little fishing people. Don’t let all the pink fool you that little girl is fearless! Only girl in the family but she don’t take no carp!

"Most saltwater fishermen follow the guides and birds . The guides and birds followed me." LOL - Daddy used to tell me those who said they were real smart and/or real religious were usually neither.

Good stuff!

Are you suggesting that rolls into fishing?

And that’s how towboatus stays in business, one missed gut at a time

8ft dusky. Fought him on snapper gear for 45 minutes got him up to the boat and the captain said "cut the line that's an endangered species"

Yep. When I caught my 7-1/2 footer it was 26 or 27 years ago before they were endangered. It was also while snapper fishing and took at least an hour. I had a little snapper bit and had him off the bottom hoping for an amberjack. We kept him. I was going to mount the jaws, had them in my freezer. When we were moving my wife (without telling me) told the movers to just keep the meat we had in the freezer - fish, beef, venison, pork...hundreds of dollars worth. One of the packages was my jaws...I hope they cut their darn hands on his teeth opening the damn package...

Me and my fishin buddy pulled up on a guy in a boat like that 30 years ago on Cypress Springs Lake in East Texas.
That fellow asked how it was going.............we said "well, it's been kinda slow this morning, how 'bout you?"
He reached over the side of the boat and pulled up a stringer of bass and crappie that would feed 10 people and said "I been doin' pretty good."

We were in a slick metal flake bass boat with a big engine, he was in a little ol' v hull tin boat.
Like you said. I learned to "pay attention" to those guys.

Captain called it early. He said "that's either a huge grouper or a shark" we already had our limit of AJ's ( I've never fought tuna but AJ's are the best bang for the buck fish I've ever fought, it's like pulling a mad dog up a 15 story building.)

"We were in a slick metal flake bass boat with a big engine, he was in a little ol' v hull tin boat." They'd just come out with a new Pathfinder and Blossoms bought a 24 footer with Yamaha 150 twin rotating prop. Put in at CC and went south a little. Caught a lot of schoolie trout, but lil' in way of substance. Got back to the Marker 37 pier and a lil', 12', potato chip of a Dargl with two ol' timer on board and four rods - two with soft plastics and two with top waters pulled to the dock and started unloading bomber reds and some quality trout. We asked if they limited out and they replied, "No, we left some for tomorrow.". We didn't have enuff for supper.

Those guys could get a lot shallower places on that scooter than the pathfinder. They’ll float in 6” of water, and you can drift the shallows for miles.

Good stuff.

How about some Toledo Bend action......that's a box full of white perch in back

Two totally different kinds of fights but both good. Amberjack are lb for lb the best fighter. A really big one (70lb+) you won't get it unless you are in a boat where the captain will pull it away from the rig or structure and your equipment is strong enough to literally hold on while the boat pulls it off. The Captain of the boat I used to go out on (John Stout on his 47' Post Sport Fisher "Possession Limit") held the state record for the longest at 110lb, not sure if he still does. When fishing for big AJ's we would use stand up belts/harnesses with Penn 50 or 80 size reels with 100lb spectra backing. AJ's have strength, Tuna have speed. They hit at speeds up to 50mph and just run. When that happens on a surface plug with you holding a heavy duty spinning rod..., it's awesome.

That sound awesome.

Miss Alice & Josh at Grand Paw's pond.