Fishing Addiction Group

[Ryan]

Well, my trip to Florida is done. Got a few more. Had a great day off of Islamorada catching mahi, yellowtail snapper and even a small blacktail tuna. Then to top off the list of invasives, I hauled up a bullseye snakehead in Fort Lauderdale on the evening before flying home.

 

[Altitude sickness]

Nice Bull Dolphin

 

[280AI]

Just a couple from Alaska

 

[Hunt anything]

@Ryan, did you eat the snakehead? I’ve heard they are excellent, but if anything like the native bowfin I would have to pass. Bowfin is extremely soft and mushy.

 

[Ryan]

@Ryan, did you eat the snakehead? I’ve heard they are excellent, but if anything like the native bowfin I would have to pass. Bowfin is extremely soft and mushy.

I did not, but several people who I knew down in Miami all talked highly of it. I deal with freight and I can say the Vietnamese love it, they ship dried snakehead all the time in care packages.

 

[Hunt anything]

I did not, but several people who I knew down in Miami all talked highly of it. I deal with freight and I can say the Vietnamese love it, they ship dried snakehead all the time in care packages.

I think that’s how the got here. They were brought over alive for the Asian fish markets.

 

[Pasme]

The plan was to go kite fishing for sailfish. But mother nature doesn't always go along with a plan. And she didn't this time. Wind is needed to fly a kite and there was hardly a breath. So we had to come up with a Plan B which Seth Funt and I agreed was planer fishing. Mother nature didn't cooperate there either. Okay, time for Plan C. Find a deep piece of structure, in a vast desert, and jig it as the gulf stream moved us over it at 4 to 5 knots.
Once a structure was located we scouted it with the sonar and found a nice pile of fish. I positioned the Huntress (my boat) up current and down the jigs went. And that's when mother nature smiled on us and the epic battles began. For at least ten consecutive drifts we hooked up. I ended up catching and releasing seven impressive Amber Jack weighing between 45 and 65+ pounds. The last one I did battle with was probably the biggest, opened the hook and got off. I was using 40 pound braid with a 30 pound monofilament leader.
And here are pictures of some of the fish. There are no camera cheats here. Those fish on my lap are up against my shirt.
After this epic campaign mother nature smiles on us in the last hour and gave us wind so I was able to see the kite deploy and how to fish from it. The wind kept freshening so we finally beat it to port.

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That is enormous.

 

[Firebird]

My daughter and her boyfriend targeting white bass but catching other stuff along the way. I think this is the biggest fish she has ever landed-she said it was a great fight as she was using light gear intended for little bass.