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Off-Topic Lets see some summer fish shots

Silver King said:
Will do, but he's a Gator fan! The other two and me are Canes fans! He went to Firefighting school at Santa Fe while Tebow was at UF - hardly missed a tailgate. It was a ***** watching us give away the game last year with three of us pulling for the Canes and him the Gators.

Other than that he's a **** good guy and great firefighter. I'll ask him what he's heard about ripple tail, he usually does well with them. You fishing around here?
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After the red tide restrictions i try to keep it to the ten thousand island area and some goodland around Marco. Have a buddy in cape coral use to live in North port. Hes in the keys right now. He got skunked yesterday. I gave him some suggestions and he put 5 mahi in the boat this morning. I told him one is mine.
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Silver King said:
Naw, just go with my sons or buddies in Charlotte Harbor. Snook, Redfish, Snapper are good, some Cobia and occasional Tripple tail. You can always catch big Black Drum under the I-75 or US-41 bridges, like this one my older son caught - quarter up a blue-crab and put it on the bottom, they do the rest. Fun fight on light tackle. Last night my nephews came over and slayed the Spinner and Black-tip sharks, they caught three before I got out to the dock to see how they were doing. Fun little 3-footers that jump like Tarpon.

But I'm all about Tarpon; watch them roll out behind the house on the Peace River and will occasionally set a big rig up, but its blue-crab season and they run right to the traps when you hook up.

My middle son is my serious fisherman. He likes Reds and Snook, some offshore. He's a Firefighter/Par and he and his buddies stay serious.
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Them triple tail are great eating.
 
1LuvCane said:
After the red tide restrictions i try to keep it to the ten thousand island area and some goodland around Marco. Have a buddy in cape coral use to live in North port. Hes in the keys right now. He got skunked yesterday. I gave him some suggestions and he put 5 mahi in the boat this morning. I told him one is mine.
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There you go. I used to see a lot of Tripple Tail off Red Fish Pass, North Captiva on the stone crab traps years and years ago when I was running yachts. Never fished for them, too far from Punta Gorda.
 
Silver King said:
There you go. I used to see a lot of Tripple Tail off Red Fish Pass, North Captiva on the stone crab traps years and years ago when I was running yachts. Never fished for them, too far from Punta Gorda.
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It use to be a surprise. I've learned over time i can go out and target tbem.
 
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Silver King said:
There you go. I used to see a lot of Tripple Tail off Red Fish Pass, North Captiva on the stone crab traps years and years ago when I was running yachts. Never fished for them, too far from Punta Gorda.
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My buddies here in the Cape do good on triple tail still. They said they should start showing up soon. Can’t remember if I mentioned before, but saw some on a flat in San Carlos bay. Paddled yak right on top of em. They were on sand against grass. Had never dreamed of them being on a flat. Pretty cool.
 
gatorsSUCK! said:
My buddies here in the Cape do good on triple tail still. They said they should start showing up soon. Can’t remember if I mentioned before, but saw some on a flat in San Carlos bay. Paddled yak right on top of em. They were on sand against grass. Had never dreamed of them being on a flat. Pretty cool.
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that's cool, its amazing what will run up on flats. I had a budy see some Bone Fish on a flat off Gasparilla island. In Charlotte Harbor big Cobia will be up there looking for rays.
 
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Nice haul. I see flies landing on them, good sign. That means they don't have Ciguatera toxin if the flies land on them. That's how you know if a Barracudda is good to eat according to an old Bahamian years ago - he laid the filets out and if flies wouldn't land on it he'd throw it to the sharks, if they landed he'd eat it.
 
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