The Fisherman's Blog:
St. Andrews Pass Reds
Guy Lohman
This was caught on the Panama City pier.
THIBODAUX, La. (AP) - It’s the big one that didn’t get away.Louisiana medical student J.J. Tabor has landed a whooper of a grouper. Tabor’s fish sets a new state record of more than 359 pounds. It’s also making for some monster fillets. Tabor says the first fillet weighed 53 pounds. But don’t expect Tabor to reveal his favorite offshore fishing spots. Friends say Tabor even makes them wear blindfolds when he takes them fishing.
Me and Robbie caught over 100 Fish on July 28,2007. We had to through back 30 Red Snapper, to small. That is why they are not in the picture. 4 different spicies.
This one survived the Red Tide. It was caught on a Gulp Jerk Shad root beer color
Caught this one on a sand flea that I hand scooped just a few minutes earlier. The pompano were chewing pretty good that day out on Crystal Beach.
Frank Webster
Santa Rosa Beach
Fishing offshore at Cedar Key on a new artificial reef I hooked one of the biggest fish I have ever dreamed of catching. it pulled like nothing else I had ever caught.
Fishing in 45 ft of water off the TLOVE boat 28ft contender CC with twin 200 Yahamas, using live 10 inch pin fish we were doing good with the keeper gag grouper.
Then I hooked up with the hardest pulling fish I have ever hooked.
We were on a reef made of chicken coups and old truck bodies.
This particular fish would fight off the drag and then I could recover most of the excess then out it would run again. After about thirty minutes of fighting this fish i knew the braided 60 lb line might not hold so I decided to free dive and fight the fish into submission with a spear gun I had on board.
Visiblity was 30 ft or so and after making a couple test dives I headed down the line to the bottom and there it was, the biggest rock bass I had ever seen! he had taken my bait and ducked inside on of the old truck bodies and rolled the window up.
Everytime I pulled the line it lifted the truck body, adding to the fish pulling. This was great fun.
I bet Capt. Reinhart has never seen this happen before.
Ron Wilkins
Panama City Fl
I caught and released this 42 inch Bull Red in the St. Joseph Bay last November using a cigar minnow on 12lb line and light tackle. The fight took 25 minutes to get him to the boat. He was too big for the net and had to be carefully gaffed at the side of his mouth to get him into the boat without hurting him. I took home this bragging picture and a great memory.
Tony Linkins
Tony.Linkins@Hotmail.Com
Joshua Cope and his family had a great day of fishing with Nathan Miller and his wife Ann on their boat. Jim Wilson also came along and did a TV show.
This is a picture of my big trout,he weighed 6.2pds.and was 27.5 inches long.I caught him off the bank in the basin bayou area.
I caught this “5 lb.” bass on a homemade plastic worm my son made. I was on Bonnet Pond in Vernon, Fl.
Sara Lee Bartlett
Vernon, Fl 32462
saralee1955@hotmail.com
Here’s another Barracuda caught near the pass by my friend Gary Cooper. It was originally a Spanish Mackeral on a lure and the Spanish became the lure as I pulled it in!
Pat Wilson shows off a 50-lb barracuda she caught off the inshore stage.
She was fishing with husband Jim Wilson.
I’m Joe Hamner with a 37lb Dolphin I caught fishing with Greg Wolf,
Athletic Director at GCCC. I caught on 15-lb test line 50-miles in the
Gulf!
While fishing with Capt. Todd Jones from Back Bay Adventures, I caught
this 19 1/2” specked trout in West Bay using a Cajun Thunder with a Gulp
Shrimp.
