My son , myself and two of his buddies went out of Murrell’s Inlet monday and fished for spadefish. this was my first experience with them and (**(); those puppies put up a fight. we ended up with 16 due to one of the guys not listening and getting dehydrated so had to quit after just a couple of hours. they were all in the 4-5lb range. i just could not believe the fight that they put up once they are hooked. can hardly wait to give it another try. loads of fun.
They are a lot of fun and good eating too. I’ve saved many a charter with spadefish.
Capt. Larry Teuton
Swamp Worshiper
“Ships are the nearest things to dreams that hands have ever made.” -Robert N. Rose
Good job. How deep were they?
Spades are about as fun as you can have with your pants on. I’ve hooked one at the surface and had it break me off on the bottom in 40 ft in about 10 sec. Smoked my trout rig!
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What kind of rig/bait do you use to fish for them?
All I’ve ever seen is the young I catch in my cast net.
First, Most, Biggest
I want to catch them all
I use inshore gear it’s more fun. Just a simple Carolina rig and jelly balls or fresh shrimp.
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just catch you some jelly balls and string a couple on a fish stringer hung on a rod over the side. drop them about two foot deep and here they come. we were in about 43ft. of water. what a fight.
After you hook the first one, keep it in the water. The school will follow it to the boat and stay there. Don’t get greedy, only take what you can eat, it’s easy to catch a lot of them.
Capt. Larry Teuton
Swamp Worshiper
“Ships are the nearest things to dreams that hands have ever made.” -Robert N. Rose
quote:
Originally posted by Cracker LarryAfter you hook the first one, keep it in the water. The school will follow it to the boat and stay there. Don’t get greedy, only take what you can eat, it’s easy to catch a lot of them.
THIS ^^ Anyone reading this thread: Please don’t be “that guy” that loads his boat because he can, not because he needs them. They are a good eating fish, but only fresh. “The freezer is the enemy of a fish”
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What Optiker said. Keep a few…release the rest. Grey trout are 1 a piece right now, because our lawmakers are to stupid, and fishermen are just gonna fill whatever limits they make.
Well I might get a chance at catching some adults for the first time in a month. I will be certain not too hog too many, don’t have much fridge/freezer space anyway.
Will I need to vent the air bladder of fish I throw back? Or is there likely a good “How to” thread out there that can tell me most of what I need to know?
First, Most, Biggest
I want to catch them all
GW, I don’t think you need to vent them. They seem to be able to go around the water column quickly without issue. I have never had them show a problem upon release in 45 ft.
2000 SeaPro 180CC w/ Yammy 115 2 stroke
1966 13’ Boston Whaler w/ Merc 25 4 stroke “Flatty”
www.ralphphillipsinshore.com
your are right. we kept 16 between the four of us
we only kept 16 between the four of us. not a lot of meat once you filet them. the top half is mainly bone. still plenty to eat.
Coolbreeze…Nice discretion. Plenty of meat. Many O’ fishermen would have kept 50 or whatever. .We all gotta realize that even tho the limit is high sometimes, we need to use discretion.