I have limited out around Cape Romain (30 fish, 3 people) on Trout with 5 fish over 20". I limited out in in Gulfport, Miss on Specks with 45 fish ( again a 3 man limit ), with one fish over 7 lbs, and 2 over 5. We slayed some YFT’s back in the not so long ago day as well. I think it was 05’ when we got a 5 man limit at Bubble Rock. I would love to see those days again.
14 bluefin. 200-700lbs. One day.
July '04 - 60 + Flounder caught hook and line in 2.5 hrs, 25 kept. Just me and my dad.
It ain’t no mystery…this beer’s history!
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Originally posted by bossdog1A slight variation on the theme. I lived in the Tampa, Fla. area back in the Mid 70’s for about a year. They experienced a major Red Tide that year. Tampa Bay became a stinking soup bowl of dead rotting fish that would literally cover miles of beach. You could drive accross the causeway and your eyes would sting from the stench. Uncountable numers of dead carcassas of every species of game fish you could imagine, and it went on for months. The point being that man in his most selfish moments isn’t a blip on the radar screen of Mother nature. To acuse him of being anything even close to the destructive and restorative forces of nature is preposterous, naive, and vain.
Sol Mate
Mako 20B
225 Optimax
naivete and vanity embodied. ever consider anthropogenically-forced eutrophication?
Kahn, M. A. (2000), Anthropogenic Eutrophication and Red Tide Outbreak in Lacustrine Systems of the Kashmir Himalaya. Acta hydrochimica et hydrobiologica, 28: 95101.
It ain’t mine but it’s a big haul just the same.
Matt
15’ War Eagle w/60 Evin.
It ain’t mine but it’s a big haul just the same.
Matt
15’ War Eagle w/60 Evin.
Two of us caught and released 60 reds 28 - 38" in the ICW on a Saturday within 25’ of busy channel,on pearl/chartreuse Exude jerkbaits. Found fish on that spot only one other time.
16 Black drum in 2 hours. Biggest 9 pounds. Caught fishing around the old rocks and groins at the morris island lighthouse about 6 years ago. Fishing was great around there until they put up that stupid sea wall and killed my honeyhole!
I wish I had a story like any of these . . . . my simple 6 dolphin in a trip sounds so pathetic.
Now, on other peoples boat, the hauls have been much bigger. Most recently with lynnmcd doing some bottom fishing. It was a three man limit on BSB’s and b-liners. 24 trigger kept, and a pinky. Not to mention the two nice sized AJ’s.
Why is it I always catch more on the Miss Amanda than I do on my boat???
Just a couple of fish sandwiches 
Capt. Larry Teuton
Cracker Built Custom Boats
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Originally posted by barbawangquote:
Originally posted by bossdog1A slight variation on the theme. I lived in the Tampa, Fla. area back in the Mid 70’s for about a year. They experienced a major Red Tide that year. Tampa Bay became a stinking soup bowl of dead rotting fish that would literally cover miles of beach. You could drive accross the causeway and your eyes would sting from the stench. Uncountable numers of dead carcassas of every species of game fish you could imagine, and it went on for months. The point being that man in his most selfish moments isn’t a blip on the radar screen of Mother nature. To acuse him of being anything even close to the destructive and restorative forces of nature is preposterous, naive, and vain.
Sol Mate
Mako 20B
225 Optimax
naivete and vanity embodied. ever consider anthropogenically-forced eutrophication?
Kahn, M. A. (2000), Anthropogenic Eutrophication and Red Tide Outbreak in Lacustrine Systems of the Kashmir Himalaya. Acta hydrochimica et hydrobiologica, 28: 95101.
http://www.irtces.org/pdf-hekou/078.pdf
http://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/viewArticle.do?id=2487
Yep, was going to post the same thing. No clue.
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Originally posted by sshaardaA slight variation on the theme. I lived in the Tampa, Fla. area back in the Mid 70’s for about a year. They experienced a major Red Tide that year. Tampa Bay became a stinking soup bowl of dead rotting fish that would literally cover miles of beach. You could drive accross the causeway and your eyes would sting from the stench. Uncountable numers of dead carcassas of every species of game fish you could imagine, and it went on for months. The point being that man in his most selfish moments isn’t a blip on the radar screen of Mother nature. To acuse him of being anything even close to the destructive and restorative forces of nature is preposterous, naive, and vain.
Wonder if this was the same red tide I saw at Tyndall A.F.B? I believe 1973? That was one of the most devastating things I’ve seen. The most beautiful sea snakes and oddest variety of fish I have ever seen.
Miles and miles and hardly a place to put your foot on the beach without stepping on some dead sea creature.
Back to the biggest harvest… Salt water, gill net on Edisto Beach years ago, too young to know what was legal or not, but hundreds of fish, shark, whiting, spot tail, trout, croaker, mullet…
Fresh water, probably a net at the Combahee eddie. Besides the numerous shad(haven’t heard any being caught out of the combahee in years), bass, rock fish(striper), mud fish, and if they weren’t too big to rip the net apart some sturgeon. Took a few trips back to the Bluff Plantation to carry all the fish on occasions. That was a long time ago not too many nets in the rivers these days.
My brother sent me some pictures from the family album yesterday! My dad has been gone 33 yrs and was quite a fisherman. One picture showed myself , my little brother and my dad standing beside (6) stringers 6’ long full of bass and scampsay ing Myrles Inlet 1954.
Another one with he and I and two unknowen men stand beside 4 marlin hanging up with weights carved on them , 425,446,398,376. Back said sept 1961 Morehead City-" Dolphin II"- his freinds boat, What pigs we were!I can remember as a teenager going to Morehead and catching 40 -50 yellowfin up to 200# in a day, early 60’s We thaugh it would never end!!!
Wang…I suppose I could have used an asteroid for my example, maybe a volcano or tsunami, but that wouldn’t have been the best bait to catch comments from poster’s ready to point out the immoral abuse that man places on the planet, with scientific evidence to back it up of course. This is good fishing grounds for fighting the attitude that man is a greedy, ignorant abuser of the natural resources, and that the great unwashed public are pathetic game hogs bent on manifesting their manhood in a bloodlust killing spree, while polluting the resource with golf course run off, plastic water bottles, and CO/2. I don’t think that way myself. I believe that the vast majority of public participants in the consumption of our abundant wildlife resources are conservation minded preservationists of our traditional and cultural connection to “the land”. I believe that their tax dollars are willingly deducted from their personal wealth in a singular and joint effort to fund the research, and LE necessary to pass the legacy onto their children. I also believe that the public gets a bum rap from the liberal media, and egocentric elitist ideologues who long for a return to the fuedal system…with them in charge of course. I’m just sayin’.
Sol Mate
Mako 20B
225 Optimax
My brother was going thru an old family album and found some pictures and sent some to me. My dad has been gone for 33 yrs and he was quite a fiherman! One picture showed me and my brother and dad standing next to 6 stringers 6’ long of black bass and b liners hanging from a wooden boat dated 8/12/58. another one showed he and I with two unknowen men standing beside 4 marlin with the weights carved into them-425,427,387,379 on the back it said, Morehead, 9/17/62 Dolphin II, HIs buddys wooden sports fisherman. What pigs we were then, but had great experences when I was growing up
Hairball already posted a pic of my most epic day team fishing. But my epic solo day was last summer in a small creek off the Cooper. Sat in a spot for 2 hours as the tide came in. The “spot” was the size of a large card table. I had 24 live shrimp and a dozen mudders for a total of 36 baits. Each bait was good for a fish and many of the mudders were good for 2. Total fish (all reds) caught in that 2 hours was close to 45. But the bait had to be in that small area. 2" outside and they didn’t touch it. I had multiple doubles, while reeling in one, another rod would go off. It was the most fun I’ve had solo fishing.
The pic Hairball posted was truly an epic day as well. We released more than we kept, that’s for sure.
19’ Sea-Pro CC
“Swagger Wagon”
Yamaha 115 - 2 stroke
14’ CMF Skiff
25 Johnson - 2 stroke
14’ Heritage Redfish
“There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.”
Ernest Hemingway
Wasn’t me, but had a friend catch 25 shrimp in 4 hours last week…talk about a haul…
Pat Condon
www.ksamarineinsurance.com
(843)568-8559
http://old.charlestonfishing.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=109253
Never caught so many reds. Bro-in-law had a rash on his belly from having the rod jammed in it, yanking reds! Crazy
Vinman
19.5 Triumph, 115 HP Honda
“Every saint has a past, every sinner a future”
www.summervillesaltwateranglers.com
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Originally posted by breadandbobbersWasn’t me, but had a friend catch 25 shrimp in 4 hours last week…talk about a haul…
Pat Condon
www.ksamarineinsurance.com
(843)568-8559
haha…now thats funny:smiley:
miss’n fish’n
212 SEAHUNT CC
Sea Squirt 16
When I was growing up in Wisconsin fishing the White Bass run in the spring I seen hundreds of boats bring in full baskets of fish (100+ per basket), now you will be lucky to catch half that in a weekend. I think it is up to us to regulate ourselves before the government does it for us then all we can do is complain. I don’t ever recall brining home what people would think as excess. Since I lived in Charleston I only bring home what I can eat for dinner. My choice.
A wise man once said “Do as I say not as I do” Good advice when I tell you that.