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Stewardship - Fishing Photo Album, 2012 - |
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Attention Members! We are in the process of building up the club photo album. If you have a picture you'd like to share with the membership, please e-mail them to Dave Werner at dwerner7@cfl.rr.com. Acceptable formats include .JPG, .GIF, .TIF and .PSD. If you don't have them in digital format, let us know via e-mail and we will assist you in getting them scanned. Also, please include a short description of your catch including date, location, species and anglers involved. |
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Other Recent Photo Archive Links |
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| West Shore J/S HS Seminars - March 2012 | |
| Awards Picnic & Challenges - 2012 | Club Meeting Photo Album 2012 |
| Our Saviour's Kids Camp, July 12, 2011 | Summer Picnic - 2011 |
| Club Meeting Photo Album - 2011 | West Shore J/S HS Seminars - March 2011 |
| Photo Album 2011 | Awards Picnic & Challenges - 2011 |
| Scenic Photos Album | |
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2012 Photos, Most Recent back to January 1st |
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Redfish Double-Up Bill reports: "Rob, Steve and I met up at the captain's meeting for the Cape Marina Ladies Day tournament Friday night. The day was cancelled due to a sporty forecast, but it didn't stop us from fishing somewhere. The Lagoon was the best choice with some nice protected coves and plenty of them. The plan was to throw UL with jigs while drifting through the flats. First fish of the morning came to Steve with a nice 6lb Trout on 2lb UL (3:1). For the next 4 hours we all caught nice slot Reds with a few Trout and a special bonus to Rob and I, a couple of fat Flounder. A great day on the water with good friends, what else could you ask for." Continued next below... |
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Big Seatrout on 2# Test Bill continues: "We will be treating the Mom’s to a dinner of Oyster’s, Redfish, Tripletail and Flounder for Mother’s Day."
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Other Side Yellowfin Mark reports: "Took a ride aboard the Bloodstream and
found an insane weedline at 85 miles. Jigged a pallet with a butterfly
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Spin Cast Bull Mark with a great Bull.
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Jigged-up 'Hoo Pallet hanging Wahoo on a butterfly jig. |
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Tournament Winning Kingfish Chris with two big Kingfish caught out of Sebastian on April 28th while fishing the SISA tournament. The largest weighed 40-4 and was 53" in length, caught on a trolled mullet and it won the Kingfish division. The 'smaller' fish went 32-8. Nice going Chris! |
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Mosquito Lagoon Redfish - 1 Mark with a 19# Redfish caught on 4# light general fishing with Troy Perez and Mark's son Steven. Continued next below... |
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Mosquito Lagoon Redfish - 2 Steven's 22# Red caught on 14# light general. |
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Tournament Winning Tripletail Bill (R), with Shawn Mecchella of Strike Zone, is congratulated for the top Tripletail caught in the Central Florida Shootout tournament held May 04-05. The fish went 17 pounds.
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Winning Tripletail (continued) Rob and Bill teamed up to fish the 'CFS' tournament together and proudly display the winning fish. Congratulations to Bill and Rob for a great job! |
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First Red Snapper Victor, fishing from his 24' Key West CC with Dan & Dave Werner, shows his first ever Red Snapper caught in 20 fathoms NE of the Port on Friday, on a jig and 10# spin tackle. Fish was in the 17-20# range. Darn nice fish for anyone's first Snapper! |
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Real Nice Cow John reports: "Good day out fishing the classic Saturday, went 2 for 4 on Dolphin fishing with John Mitchell, Lee and Larry." |
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Stick Marsh Delivers Again Dave Werner reports: "Took Eric down to the Stick Marsh Friday to pursue some largemouth. It was a beautiful day, the bite was slow yet productive, especially for Eric. Using plastic worms (and a little bit of surface plugs), Eric caught a total of six Bass including this 6# 8oz fish on a 10" worm, a 10 point fish on plug."
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Eric Griggs - Member Dave continues: "After quite a lull period, Eric nailed this fat 9# 3oz (20 point) bucketmouth, again on a 10" plastic worm using 12# plug casting gear. I managed only three Bass for the day but took great pleasure in Eric having a good day including his personal best." |
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Backyard Bass Vickie reports: "When it is too windy to kayak fish in the river...I do this!! From my backyard lake!! About 8 pounds! On a Johnson Sprite 1/4oz gold spoon. He gave me a beautiful jump too!" |
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Big Flatfish Captain Glyn with an eight pound Flounder caught April 11 on a live pogy. |
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Jacks are Wild Ryan reports: "These are some of the fish I caught
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Offshore Red Ryan holds one of the Reds caught on this day.
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Big Ole Stingray
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Miami Tarpon at Night with the Long Rod |
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Nice 6-0 Largemouth Back in north Melbourne, I finally managed to catch a nice Bass before my buddy Ralph got to him. This was our last morning fishing together before he returned up north and we managed eight decent fish in about 2.5 hours before the sun came out and they shut down. |
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Best Bass day I have ever
seen or heard of, period! Ralph's catch in chronological order... |
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9 pound Largemouth
9 pound 8 ounce Largemouth You could easily put your entire fist inside these two fish mouths and never touch them |
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| 8 pound Largemouth 6 pound 8 ounce Largemouth (above) | ||
If you might be wondering what I was doing while all this transpired, I was simply running the trolling motor and catching ordinary 1.5 to 4 pound fish plus losing a couple between 4 and 5 pounds. Plus, of course, I was kept busy lip landing most of Ralph's fish and dipping another shiner out of the cooler. The only justice was that Ralph did pay in terms of a sunburn (note the shirt covering the legs as the warm, quiet day progressed). His top five fish averaged 7.6 pounds in weight, out of sight indeed! |
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Real Good Dolphin Member John Anusewicz reports: "Good day out, we went 2 for 3 on Dolphin in about 170ft. ( with John Mitchell and Jeff Shute)." |
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Big Largemouth at Stick Marsh Steve holds his best of the day at 5-15 caught on a surface lure in mid-afternoon. He also caught a 5-7 on a plastic worm earlier in the day. Steve and Carol are very experienced bass fishers, using a wide variety of tackle types and artificial lures.
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Another Nice Bass Carol holds a solid 4 pounder from their trip of the 31st. |
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South Florida Peacock Bass Daniel with one of the Peacocks he caught using his Dad's handmade jigs. He and a friend caught four Peacocks and three Largemouths in just a couple of hours. They fished a canal and caught all the Peacocks while sight casting to them on the beds.
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Nice Schoolie Jim & DelAnn plus family members spent a day fishing NE of Port Canaveral with Captain Billy Bright. They fished primarily in 110' to 120', water temp at 73.4F. This and the following pictures are from that trip.
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More Mahi DelAnn holds another schoolie.
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Nice 'Hoo @ 40# This big Wahoo was delicious says Jim.
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One of Two Sailfish One of two Sailfish the group boated and released. A real good day on the water for Jim, DelAnn and family.
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Fat Red Snapper Jim with a 15# ARS on a trip offshore with DelAnn Colyer back on March 2nd.
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Another Fat Red Snapper DelAnn holds her 12# ARS before release. These great fish are all over the reefs and hard bottom off Canaveral in super abundant quantities and large sizes while NOAA/SAFMC keeps the south atlantic ARS fishery completely shut down due to being 'overfished'. How can it be overfished when nobody can keep one for the last 2+ years? |
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Stick Marsh Largemouth Carol & Steve spent a very successful day down in the Stick Marsh last Saturday catching over 40 bass up to better than 4 pounds in size.
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Best of the Day Steve with a 4-13, very nice fish. |
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South Carolina Bass Dan reports: "Here are a few pictures from my trip to
South Carolina last week. I fished a few times and caught lots of nice
crappie - up to about a pound and a half size fish. I caught three nice
bass,
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 Spring Turkey Dan continues: "I left Wednesday night and got to my
brother-in-law's farm at midnight. I got up Thursday and went turkey
hunting.
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 And a Dark Coyote Dan continues: "Since it was only about 8:15 and the morning was so nice, I picked up the turkey and carried it back to the tree where I had been sitting. I started calling again, and after about 15 minutes, I had two turkeys gobbling to my calls down in the swamp. I didn't want to shoot another one, but I wanted to call them up to me if I could. About 10 minutes later, 3 jakes (year old gobblers with short beards) walked by about 15 feet from me. They wandered off, and 10 more minutes passed before one of the gobblers was responding from about 70 yards out. A few minutes later, I saw a dark shape to my left and thought it was that gobbler - I thought he had come around the ridge. When it moved a bit more, I realized it was a black coyote, probably looking for the hen that was making all the noise (that would be me!). I didn't have my gun in hand, but I reached over and picked it up while the coyote's head was behind a tree, leaned out to where I could get the bead on its head, and shot it. The coyotes have become a nuisance in SC, so any chance to get rid of one is a good thing." |
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Phins and a King This and the next two photos are from a Dallas family trip offshore Canaveral last Sunday. Nice going guys!
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Junior Kingfish
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And Another Kingfish
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Giant Gulf Tuna Member Mark Wilson reports: "The crew of Brian Rimer, Scott Lehrmann, Mark Wilson, Greg Sharp, Thad Tripoli, Chris Hudson and Billy Fazio dragged the F/V Bloodstream to Venice LA to target some larger than life fish. Day 1 resulted in 238 lb Yellowfin Tuna landed by Billy. This fish was weighed and certified by LDWF as the 2nd largest YFT recorded in the Gulf of Mexico. Five days of fishing left me to believe this place is the Jurassic Park of Fishing." Continued next below ... |
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Gulf ARS Day 3 off Venice, big Red Snapper.
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Big Gulf Wahoo Venice Day 4: Wahoo landed aboard the F/V Bloodstream pictured with Chris Hudson, Brian Rimer, Billy Fazio, Greg Sharp and Mark Wilson.
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Huge Gulf AJ Venice Day 5: Mark with a huge Amberjack.
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Another Large YFT Mark reports: "YFT from Venice aboard Bloodstream. This place really is the Jurassica Park of Fishing!"
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And a Big Kingfish Mark with a real good King.
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First Bass Rylee caught her fish on a light spin rod and an artificial worm from a Seminole County pond. Nice catch Rylee!
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Offshore Catch Henry reports: "Got to do a little personal fishing
myself Saturday out of the Port, and we did well, 10 for 15 on Mahi, plus a
side of Wahoo. Fished with FSFA member Rick Smith and a few of his
friends on his boat the "Game Hog". |
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First Dolphin of Season Team “Top Dawg” with their catch of the day. Nice going guys, ummmmh yummy! |
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Another Good Cobia Ryan reports: "Here is a photo of a Cobia I caught off
the old R2 Buoy site, he went for 31.5 lbs and was the biggest one of the
day (that's from all the boats, no talk on FB or on the radio, just what A very nice Cobe Ryan, congrat's! |
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Nice Pair of Cobes Steve (L) and Dale aboard the TunaRude with a nice pair of Cobia on Tuesday March 13th. There is some rumor to the point that Mike Cochran may have hooked Steve's fish from the tower?? |
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Another Local Bass A nice 4-4 that took a 'quiet' plastic worm. A nearby, satisfying diversion on a spring afternoon. |
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Invader is Everywhere The retention pond was full of Tilapia nests today with many being 'guarded'. I couldn't resist. Used a small piece of plastic worm dropped repeatedly in the nest until the fish grabbed it to carry it out. Not much of a fight, they're used to being just a farmed critter I guess. |
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the Wind BlowsDave Werner - Member Date: Mar 08, 2012 Rough weather? No sweat. Just slip over to Crane Lake and make a few casts where the strong breezes simply feel good. This four pounder fell for a weightless plastic worm on Thursday afternoon. How much eyewear does an angler need? Answer is 'too much' following cataract removal :>). I couldn't even read the scale without removing the sunglasses and donning 'readers'. |
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Potential New Club Record Mike with his 7# 8oz Channel Catfish he caught on 6# Spin tackle with a curly tail jig in Lake Harney back on Jan 29th. Beats the existing spin record by 1# 8oz. Nice job Mike! |
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Cobia Catch
Dan reports: "Here are a couple photos of Cobia we caught
today. We wound up with 7. Four came on jigs, three on pogies. We had a good
spurt of activity for about an hour and a half in 60ft of water off PAFB. We
had double hookups twice. The Cobia that were in small packs were very
aggressive and took the jigs well. I caught the largest one of the day on a
jig - weighed 42lbs back at Victor's house on his dinky little scale. Looks
about right. It sure felt heavier when I lifted it in the boat after a 20
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 Cobia
Catch - 2Dan Thompson - Member Date: Mar 02, 2012 Dan continues: "Victor caught his first couple of Cobia on jigs on a rod I built for him, so he was very happy. Daniel had one more nice one that threw the hook on a jig. This was the first fishing trip for Victor's new boat, so we broke it in right! It's a 24ft Key West and rides pretty nice! " |
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Reel Club MemberCarolyn Costello - Member Date: Mar 01, 2012 Dad Chris reports: "Miss Carolyn found my supply of FSFA stickers....... " Webmaster note: Not our usual fish shot but I couldn't
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Spin King Member Sam Torberg and Dave went out to Pelican Thursday and managed a couple of Kings plus a bunch of Sea Bass. This fish was a pointer fooled by a large Rapala on 10# spin gear as they drift cast in the south Pelican area. |
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Port Bluefish James had a nice evening in Port Canaveral last Friday catching almost twenty Blues (kept 4) and one Jack, all on a Bomber lure. The largest Blue was 3# 6oz and 23" in length. Nice going James! |
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SJR Speck
Jim reports: "Splashed the gheenoe yesterday and ran to
middle river and only managed 1 point Speck, and numerous other Specks just
a lot smaller in size on jigs, staked out on points near the |
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and SJR Shad(s) Aplenty
"Gheenoe in 2ft of moving water & never left for 3 hrs of
non-stop fun. The majority of the fish were in the 3lb range and I did
manage to lose two that were easily 4-5lbs due to not having a landing net
(note to self). They were boiling thick enough to roll into the side of the
boat with a thud, and seemed to really get aggressive when |
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Port Bluefish
Jim reports: "02/10/12 caught and released 5 blues, this
one was kept for dinner. 20 inches, 3 pounds. Caught on a yozuri lure in the
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Canaveral Port Snook
Jim reports: "2/7/12 this is a pic of me holding the
Snook w the lure it was caught on, an old school top water popper. I caught
it at the |
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SJR Smorgasbord Eric & Dave Werner hit the St Johns today north of 520. The Shad were pretty scarce, managed 3 and they were only average in size. Did not see many flipping at all so the heavy run there of 6 days ago had dissipated. However, they found other fish willing to hit their small jigs including 4 nice Catfish, a couple of Specks, several Redbreast sunfish, a few Bluegills and a Shellcracker. These fish are a lot of fun on ultra-light gear and sort of saved our day. Also saw an Eagle in a cypress tree, a host of various water birds and of course alligator galore. |
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3-2 Shad on Spin
Finally a 'pointer' Shad this year! Got into a thick run
of Shad about 1/2 way between Rt 520 & 528 on Wednesday. I could hear & see
them coming minutes before they got to me. Caught fish on all 4 tackle
classes (F, U, S, P) I had with me, but only one topped 3#. |
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 Fly Casting for SJR Shad
Dan Thompson - Member
Dan reports: "Shad fishing was off the charts this
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 Another Shad to the Boat
Dan Thompson - Member Dan continues: "When that slowed, we decided to run up toward Puzzle Lake. Wound up coming back down the river to the bend just south of the mouth of the Econ'. Nobody else was fishing there and shad were breaking all around us. Caught 30 plus in that spot, right in the middle of the river. That was great fun!"
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 A Monster SJR Catfish
Mark Whitmire - Member
Mark reports: "My biggest Catfish ever. Caught yesterday
in SJR Puzzle Lake on light general. 22 pounds 15 ounces, 37 inches long
Webmaster's note: For as long as I have been
associated with the FSFA (11 years), this is the best Catfish turned-in.
I've caught many a Cobia smaller than this! DW |
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 A Pair of SJR Cats
Mark Whitmire - Member
Mark reports: "Not quite big enough for points, but big
ones for sure!! 13.67 and 16.29 pounders. Caught them in the SJR yesterday
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 St Johns 'Sunshine Bass'
Dave Werner - Member In last October's auction, Dan Pellechio won a Shad trip on the SJR with Dave Werner. So Dan & Dave took Dave's jonboat out upstream from Rt 46 and fished with 1/16 oz jigs and a little with a 4 wght fly rod. Dave nailed this 2-9 hybrid Striper/White Bass right away on 4# UL. Then they started catching several American Shad, Crappies and Bluegills for a nice mixed bag day on the river. They would move and re-anchor when things slowed down. Ended with 10 or so Shad, a few nice 'Gills and a host of Specks (crappies). Dave got a couple of Shad with his little fly rod using a tiny, simple streamer fly. Photos continued next below... |
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 One of Several American Shad
Dan Pellechio - Member Dan with a typical Shad a little more than 2 pounds. None today reached the 'point size' at 3 lbs but they all provided great sport on UL, fly and light spin gear. Pete'e enjoyed the trip as well, often barking at the small jigs we used, just because he could :). He was a very good boat partner. At one point, there were 5 club members within sight of each other (in 3 boats) in the pool just outside and downstream from the mouth of the Econ'. For a weekday, never ever seen so many boats on the SJR as there were today.
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 NMZ Seatrout on Fly
Dan Thompson - Member
Dan reports: "I was invited to fish in the NMZ off the
NASA causeway with Bill Alderman this morning. We found a big school of good
size redfish about a mile south of the causeway & each caught a couple. The
largest was about 42". When we couldn't find the school any more, we moved
up on a flat that was loaded with mullet & started catching one slot size
redfish after another, with some trout thrown in. I caught a 22" trout on
fly. The smaller reds & trout were fun on UL tackle - they hit a small
chartreuse jig. I think Bill was catching them on a gold spoon. They were
mixed in with the mullet and feeding pretty well." |
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 NMZ Redfish
Dan Thompson - Member Dan with a good NMZ Redfish.
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 Points Seatrout
John Durkee - Member John reports: "As the new year begins, thought I would join in the fun and begin 'points' fishing. With member Paul Partlow, headed inshore on Saturday afternoon. We didn't find any Reds (the goal) but we caught and released a few trout. Submitting this as my first points fish of 2012 - on 4 lb test with 8 lb leader, jig with small green paddle tail in about 4' of water, fish weighed 3.8lbs on the digital. Photos and safely released." |
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 Bahamas Trip Wahoo
Mark Wilson - Member Mark reports: "This past weekend Scott L, Chris H, Frank and myself loaded up and ran across to Walkers Cay targeting some Wahoo. This was to be a quick one night trip and back covering approximately 350 miles in two days. Each day we landed Wahoo on the tide change and when the bite died down we changed gears to bottom fishing, I landed a new FSFA club record 3lb 15 oz Rockhind on Lt General plus a 16 lb 12 oz Red Grouper on 4 lb ultra light tackle. Chris landed a 22 lb Red grouper that warranted IGFA consideration and was submitted. Another fun day in light tackle fishing.
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 Red Grouper on 4#
Mark Wilson - Member Mark with 16-12 Red Grouper from Walkers Cay area in the Bahamas, a very nice 3:1 catch. |
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 New Club Record YFTuna on Plug
Eric Griggs - Member Eric beat his own club record (by a bunch) while on his annual long range fishing trip out of San Diego. This Yellowfin went 27 lbs caught on 15# plug tackle. It took two hours to land it and Eric does look a bit tired. Captain Justin Fleck took the picture. Congrat's Eric, a great catch! |
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 Kadin's 1st Deer
Kadin Adair, Grandson of Randy Strickland Kadin with his first deer taken in January.
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 Fat Bunch of Whiting - 1
Ryan & Leon Vetsch - Members The Vetsch's hit the Canaveral Bight last Sunday and had a good day with the Whiting, most fish well over 1# and one over 2#. The fish were caught on jigs. Leon scored 30 points with fish on UL, Spin & Light Gen.
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 Fat Bunch of Whiting - 2
Ryan & Leon Vetsch - Members Ryan (L) and Leon with their catch.
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 Days Kingfish Catch
Most of Thurston's Crew Bill Parker reports: "I was invited on Curt and Bridget’s boat for a little kingfish yesterday. We heard the kings were non-existent at 8A since the cold water moved out during the week so Pelican was the next best thing on the radar. The fishing was pretty consistent most of the day but not quite as epic as last week-end. We caught a few for the smoke house, then proceeded to do a little catch and release. The fun began with the light tackle which was the best part of the day. I missed the first two on UL then got another shot with a nice 3-1, 12.5lb king. We had several more on UL and SP with only one more to the gaff, unfortunately we went through a few Yozuri’s from the line parting right at the boat. All in all a great day on the water with some good friends. If you guys like king fishing get out there now and catch-em up." Photos continued next below... |
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 Ultralight King
Bill Parker - Member Bill took this 12.5# King on 4# UL gear while casting a Yozuri. This fish missed the existing club record on UL by 2 ounces!
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 Another Light Tackle King Mackerel
Taylor (L) with Curt Thurston - Member Jenna's boyfriend Taylor caught this King on spin gear. |
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 Nearshore Trout on Fly
Daniel Thompson, Jr. - Son of Member Dan
Thompson Dan took sons William & Daniel Jr. out for some nearshore efforts on Friday. They didn't find the Drum, Pompano or Whiting they looked for but did find Trout & Northern Weakfish to 2.5 pounds as well as some Jacks, Ladyfish and of course Blues.
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 Another Trout
Daniel Thompson, Jr. - Son of Member Dan
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 North IRL Trout
Bruce Stewart - Brother In-law of Member Dave
Werner Dave reports: "Took my brother-in-law for a morning of fishing from my jonboat in the northern IRL. Caught a small Redfish and several Trout. Fairly slow fishing but a great morning for early January. Water about a foot low up there compared to last year at same time."
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 and Another Trout
Dave Werner - Member
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 First Sea Trout
Carolyn Costello - Member
Dad Chris reports: "Here's a couple pictures for you.
These are my daughters Elena(4) and Carolyn (3). We went to the Nasa
Causeway Bridge yesterday afternoon armed with live shrimp, split shot and
bobbers. I had to set the hook for Elena and then give her the rod to wind
it in, but my 3 year old actually hooked and fought the fish all by herself,
screaming and squealing the whole time. I kept expecting her to throw the
rod in the water, but she wound it up right next to the boat. Giana,
my six year old, also got her first Trout, but we didn't get it until after
dark, so I don't have a good picture.
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 Another First Sea Trout
Elena Costello - Member |
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