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My son lives near Ft Lauderdale Florida so I spent a week there fishing every day. Tropical climate, had a bunch of lizards in the back yard as well as frogs.
I fished the piers, under bridges, off the jetty, along the banks of the canals. FISH WERE EVERYWHERE! I mainly fished for reef fish, not the big ones. I went out on a boat and only got a remora. See pic. The biggest fish were at the pier but most fisherman walked away empty handed. I saw very few large fish being taken from there and in general. We went to Isamadora down the southern keys and seen 20 - 100 lb tarpon being fed at the boat docks eating the scraps after the fish have been cleaned. I caught a wierd looking crab and an octopus as well. I mostly used my ice fishing pole and 8 lb line. I ended up catching more than anyone I had seen and used a size 8 hook.
I was under the impression that the snappers were larger than a foot, but not the case. You never know what your going to get.
Take a look at the remora pick stuck on the ceiling.
The guy next to me caught the 3 foot barracuda. It looks like it weighed 10 lbs. I saw 2 other barracudas about 3-4 feet long during that week.
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Way to go,reminds me of some of my first post with all my bass from the everglades..
Light action normally gets me alot of action,nice!
few fish were off,sorry about the sheapshead,thats a sargeant major,tropical guy..I have a receant cuda pic myself..
Way to out fish those guys on that rod lol. Pauly,from S. FL
Did you try at night,more snapper come out then..
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Yes i tried night fishing and it was totally dead off the pier. Noone got anything but a couple of grunts. I was also unsuccessful off the beach as well.
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Nice I got family near West Palm .. need to get down there for the tarpon/bone fish runs
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I was in west palm beach last summber snorkeling spear fishing and fishing, its a trip to see all of the different fish and what lurks below.
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Sounds like a great time i miss Florida. I went there last september. Try to catch barracudas but they are smart only to eat my mullets up to the head XD. I still wonder what kind of fish at nigh that was huge on the end of the line coming up this 10 ft+ concrete wall that haunts me every day it was huge >_< "line snaps" worst fishing day ever
those were the fishes i caught and many mullets with my cast net and some other fishes as well that i dont know the names of them at all lol. Sorda hard to catch fish when it was first time surf fishing.
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Those first two pictures are amazing!
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Ya sorry I didn't bring my head lamp at night lol when I went there's lol I should of XD
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Huge fish at night = shark. Frequently the fin will abrade the line 3-6 ft up from the hook if you don't have a shock leader attached. Other times they just snap it.
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The last hour I was there, I tried the cast net. I need a lot of practise. Didn't see any mullets. Next time, I'm going to concentrate more on the beach fishing.
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Ya it was my first time fishing the ocean so ya next time I will know to buy stronger line and lead line thingy. All I know it wasnt a shark. Lol I used shrimp and it wasn't so long of fish but pretty fat.
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Ya cast netting is hard at first but if u have the right person to show u u will catch like 5-20+ mullets at once. Ya I was fishing west palm beach by the Marriotts hotel and there a water pump there and that's where I caught mullets. The barracudas are nice size there and like to eat your mullets along the rocky area.
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Sounds like a great trip, I love ocean fishing. Last time I was in Florida I was down in the keys, just waded in and started casting, I was killing the Spanish Mackerel and small Baracuda's on my 8 wt. fly rod and shrimp patterns. Heading down in Sept. and will be fishiing Estero Bay for some redfish and sea trout.
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Thats what I should've done, wade in and fish the flats. Next time I'll do it, hopefully rent a kayak too .
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Maybe it was a big ole jack. Craziest thing I've seen is catching 40 lb jacks on a short hand line (12 ft/80lb test) with a shrimp at dock. That was a battle.
Don't even get me started on kayak fishing trips in the Keys and the Glades.
I think when I retire I'll split my time between Florida in the winter and Alaska in the summer.
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Lol ya I hope one day I can go fishing in floriday some day on there boat and catch some snappers
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[quote TroutBumDave]Those first two pictures are amazing![crazy][/quote]
Thats a infamous lockness-chupa-sasquatch-cobra fish [laugh][laugh][laugh]
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