Took my boat out to the harbor for some spanish yesterday, no luck there so I went out to the jetties for the first time, All in all it was a good day, Caught a 17 and 18" red and a 16 and 17" flounder, missed to good flounder and caught this weird looking fish apparently called a ribbon fish. Are these ribbon fish poisonous. Current got to bad so we ran to the ICW, got broke off a few times then called it a day. Did however find out that the harbor is very shallow at low tide(sand bar). STill a good day and boat handled the bigger swells out by the jetties well so I was content.
1996 Key West Sportsman
112 Johnson
btw these were all caught on 4" gulp shrimp forgot that in the report
1996 Key West Sportsman
112 Johnson
That shallow area would likely be be the Crab Bank. Dicey shallow spots around Sumter/Morris Island and entrance of JI Creek. Might want to set an alarm on your depth finder if you have one. It all looks wide open until it isn’t!
Sounded like a decent day. Ribbon fish are a trip, aren’t they. Like pulling up a sheet of foil!
Vinman
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Did you have two children with you? We pulled in one oversized spottail
You can eat ribbon fish all day long. They will not poison you.
and kingfish will eat ribbons all day long too!
-Wishes Charlotte was 3 hours closer to the ocean…-
only 1 kid and my buddy, fbpeanut but nice to know sabot the ribbons hey hit pretty hard to, i was like what is that as he came skipping cross the water
1996 Key West Sportsman
112 Johnson
vinman i have a hummingbird but on plane it won’t read accurately i guess its to fast register, i was only going about 15-20 but it abruptly stopped me
1996 Key West Sportsman
112 Johnson
Ribbon fish are excellent King Fish bait.
Capt. Justin
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