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P'Cola Bch 11-18-08(BRRR!)

j_purdy — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:11:26 GMT

I had the morning off yesterday and headed to the beach. Considering the temps and it being the middle of the week, I expected few anglers. Wrong! I headed past the eyesores(Portofino), and it seemed like all the decent real estate was occupied. I found an area that seemed to have a little depth and set up. There was absolutely no action. Sandfleas were really tough to come by, too. There were a ton of mullet cruising the beach close. Aside from that, I kept a light rod rigged for the passing bo-bo schools. I did manage to hook 3 fish-landing 2 of them. It was definitely some welcome action. I left around 11:00 and scouted some places for early next week(better tides, weather). Past Peg Legs I found some HUGE concentrations of mullet in very close to the beach. It might be worth checking out for some of you. Tight Lines

-Jason

mako of the beach

rubberboat — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:18:14 GMT

this evening b4 dark i got to the beach 2 c a 9 ft 2 mako my buddy cought off the beach on my rod and reel might no if I would halv ben earlyer I would halve cought it might halv picks soon thancks 2 navarre fire dept for pulling him up the beach 4 us it was great i wont sleep for a month noweing I could halv had him :banghead:banghead:banghead:banghead:banghead:banghead:banghead:banghead

Destin West Jetty 11-20-2008

Sailor50 — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:06:18 GMT

Thought I would take the challenge today and head out to the Destin West Jetty. Good 50 minute walk/climb from the parking area.

Nice day overall, 3 people were out there already, were catching mangrove snapper on the ocean side about 30 yards from the end. Looked like they were using live shrimp.

I was going to try to catch some too, but really didnt have much luck. Tried Gulp shrimp and squid, managed to get one and several bites. All were in or near the rocks. Got snagged several times on the rocks. Swells were coming in from the west plus believe the wind was from the west too, so, the ocean side of the jetty got a little wet to fish from. The bluefish were there but not in the numbers as a few days ago. Went to a silver gotcha and managed to get 3. Several boats stopped by, only saw one catch anything, nice redfish, looked like they were using live bait.

The east jetty looked busy

Largest pod of porpoises i ever saw came through, must have been over 15-20 of them.They were jumping and looked like they were trying to herd something toward the jetty. Interesting to watch.

Then a school of Bonita (Little Tunny) showed up and stayed maybe 30 minutes. Threw on them with a gotcha but none ever took it.

Did foul hook 2, good fight, will save them for bait.

Long walk back, but always enjoy the jetties, good place to relax and you always see something interesting. Managed to make it back without breaking my neck.

11-15 reds on the beach

Fishforfood — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 21:22:55 GMT

Took some friends fishing on Pensacola beach Saturday afternoon. The wind was kicking, it was muddy,and cold. We didn't expect much with cold wind or to stay long. But we caught a nice whiting and two reds on fresh shrimp with a double drop rig:). One red was 25" and the other 21". The pic is the 25". Remember to take a kid fish-n, someone took you.

5 Pompano; Pcola Beach 11/16/08

angryaccntnt — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:11:29 GMT

My brother, a Marine, just got back from deployment in Iraq. I took him to Pcola beach to try for some Pompano. We caught five! Took them home and ate them that night. We fished east of Portofino. Caught all fish between 3:30 and 5:00. I saw no other fisherman out there. Odd for such a beautiful day.

Caught all pompano on sandfleas.

Destin Jetties

Luminum — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:49:05 GMT

Went to the jetties last week. Mangrove snapper were biting well as usual and also pulled in a nice pompano. Two guys fishing at the end were pulling in the pompano about every other cast. Best dinner I've had in a while. Pompano tasted better than the snapper!!

11/12

sand crab — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:57:17 GMT

Headed out to the beach late morning to get away from the house. The surf was up did not feel sitting in the wind. Went to the sound side of Navarre, by the bridge. Fished for a couple of hours. Caught a 24 in red the only for the day, weighted in at 7 lb . Bs about politics and work. Decided their all crooks.

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Destin East Jetty 11-13-2008

Sailor50 — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:17:22 GMT

Headed out to the Destin East jetty this morning around 8:00 am. Stopped at the spur jetty first, tide was going out at a pretty good climp. Stayed about 45 minutes, nothing.

Headed out to the East Jetty, older gentleman on the end was hauling in a little of everything, mainly bluefish plus the largest pinfish I have ever seen, over a foot long, maybe a pound

He had a 5 gallon bucket full of blue fish and mangrove snapper.

He was fishing at the southeast end and we fished on the pass side, nothing. used cut bait on the bottom, dead shrimp, gotchas, etc. Anyways, he decided to leave (His bucket was full) and we moved over to the ocean side of the end. Saw schools of bluefish roaming about 10' off the rocks but they would not hit anything. Also, the tide had stopped moving, believe we were at low tide. Nothing for an hour or so except for these guys.

Tide started picking up again heading back in and the bluefish bite was on. Numerous schools of them on both sides of the jetty.

Just threw anything silver out there and they would hit it. Probably caught 30 before we stopped, from around 11" up to some larger ones.

Tried Pompano jigs and Pompano bottom rig with shrimp, but no takers. Did get one small mangrove snapper next to the rocks on Gulp shrimp.

Never did see any bait schools. Tried some cut bait on the bottom when the tide was going out for some redfish, but no takers, never had much luck with them on cut bait, always live bait has worked for me. But, overall nice day.

Finally got some Pomps! 11-11-08

Private Pilot — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:46:04 GMT

Until today, a Pompano has never been on the other end of my rod. I just had to solve that issue and go out to the beach. My friend Trevor went with and helped out with the flea raking. After an hour and a half, my rod doubles up and almost comes out of the spike. I run to it and fight it to the beach. I see the fish swimming in the waves and its a pomp! Measured out to be 16.5in. Trevor then catches two, like its no big deal. His were 13 and 15in. We had a couple more hook-ups and that was it. All caught on dead shrimp and sandfleas.

Sunday - Pensacola Beach

Brad K — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:43:57 GMT

Sunday morning we didn't feel like putting the boats in the water, and with all the Pomps being caught lately we decided to go give it a try. Went to Portofino about 9:30 Sunday morning. Armed with Flea rake, dead fleas, live shrimp ans dead shrimp.

TONS of bonito running through the surf made for a lot of excitement on trout tackle, caught 1 leagal Black Drum and 2 legal pompano and a handfull of light tackle Bo-Bo's.

I have a lot of good action photos I will post later when they are sent to me.

Here's a picture of Dawna and Brittany both with their first ever Pompano.

Dawna and Brittany both with their first ever Pompano......Way to go girls

Man....We sure live in a beautiful place

Here's our little Australlian trying to catch "Tailers"....Who knows what they are?

Guess they surf fish for em on the Gold Coast.

Here's Dad (Dantheman) setting up a Pomp rod for Brittany

Here's Brittany with My Fishing Partner and LONG time friend Alan's son Owen.

Future "Team Reel Gooder" Captain....

Brittany with a Bonito on light tacklle...adn me still thinking I'm a Deckhand

More of the same here.......

Britt-Britt with whats probably her first Bonito

My better half Dawna with a nice Black Drum

Dawna and Britt-Britt hamming it up for the camera

Raoul and myself trying to coax a few more Bonito to the beach

More of the same......(Man I need to lose some weight)

Raoul.....With yet another tangle:doh

Dad (Dantheman) jacking up a Bonito to hand off to Brittany

Brittany getting beat up by a light tackle bonito

Dad getting beat up by a light tackle bonito

End Result

and last but not least Britt-Britt posing with her first ever Pompano.......That girl sure looks

proud of that fish.....Way to go Britt:clap

johnsons beach

boudin — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 18:48:00 GMT

Fished for pomps at JB today w/ no luck. 1 blue ,1 whiting . Could'nt find any fleas,so we used dead shimp. Still was a nice day.:usaflag

Navarre Beach Report

steelhead — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 18:16:02 GMT

Two small rods and traveled light hitting the pockets. 4 pomps on peeled shrimp and two on a pomp jig. Also, got 1 red that was slightly over the slot limit. By the way, was using the Penn Sargus 4000 reel w/the pomp jig. This is a good reel bang for the buck wise. I dropped it in the sand a few times and had no problems.

sat 11/15/08

freespool50 — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 22:02:26 GMT

had a friend in town 2day from ft lauderdale. he froze 2 death. he finally went home with the girls which left me and my son trevor. was east of portofino. water was murky. wind was STRONG out of the north. surf was predictably calm close in. couldnt find a flea to save our life. trevor dutifully gets in the water for the flea search. so, we use the old standby of fresh dead shreemps.trev hooks up an 18" blk drum and then i hook into a 29" red. im wearing wading boots and blue jeans trying not to get wet and release this fish at same time. couldnt do it. trev steps in and performs the release. somehow he gets his index finger in the back of the mouth, ouch. nice scrapes from that. but the red swims off none the less for wear. trev then hooks into a 15" blk drum. one more try with the rake and wouldnt you know, trev lands on a bed of fleas. at this point the sun has just set and the wind really picks up now and is blowing at least 25knots out of the north. time to head home.

2 15 and 18" black drum; 1 29" red released.

SORRY, NO PICS!! but yall know what puppy drum and an overslot red look like.

Gulf Shores report 11/11/08

CJF — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:21:31 GMT

I hit the beach today around 10am just west of west pass looking for some pompano. no pomps but did manage to grab these two reds. one was 22inches and one was 24inches. The surf was rough and the wind was a blowin. Still beats being at work. :letsdrink I put thm on the smoker with a pecan log for about 30 minutes before i laid them over some white hot charcoals. slathered them with a lemon butter, white wine, vinegar and tabasco sauce. It wasn't bad.:hungry

Destin Jetties 10-11

Fuhrer48 — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:03:12 GMT

11-11 screwed up the date

I headed over to the Destin jetties from pcola to see how it was. Ive never fished them before and thought I would give them a shot. My buddy and I showed up in the morning to see some birds working and we were quick to see they were Bobos. They were pretty picky about what they wanted but we ended up picking up 3 with a few missed oppurtunities. There were some studly bluefish mixed in with them and we picked up a few of them as well. I took a break from slingin lures and worked some shrimp around the rocks and there were lots of small black snapper a few decent ones in the mix along with undersized grouper. The weather was nice, had the day off, and had a pretty decent day of fishing! Thank you to all the veterans out there!

Fishing at AL point W/ pics

roofordie — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 16:07:51 GMT

My son and I went with a friend and his boy out to Alabama Point today to try the flounders. I caught a couple small grouper and a damn ray, but the highlight to our morning was the 36" bonnet shark. We found one nice school of ewlys at about 7am, right off the rocks (which were very slippery). When I threw the cast net I slipped off balance and kerplunked right between the rocks, gouging my palm and slicing my ankle. That was the only bait school we saw this morning. No more anywhere on the shoreline. We caught the shark and the ray off of a 6" fish that resembled a lady fish. Everything else was landed off suffocated ewlys (forgot the aerator). I ended up with two flounder ( a 17" and 14") and a slot red (19.5")to take home.:takephoto

Pompano Saturday Nov 8

SeaDogs — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 07:28:16 GMT

Fished near the Ft. Pickens gate from 9am to noon. Caught a nice pomp, 17'' - 4#. The junior member of the seadogs landed it. While telling the story of catching his first pomp he said 'Sure did put up a fight'.

It was Beautiful day to be at the beach: Cloudless sky, cool breeze, and crystal clear water. Hardly broke a sweet. We also watched a pod of dolphins for most of the morning. Have not fished since the spring. May go again today.

Seadogs

Pompano Nov 3

bullminnow — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:11:33 GMT

Got started around 9 and moved to another spot around 12. We didnt have any luck at the first spot but ended up with 8 in about 1 hour at the new spot. Enjoy the pics

Fri 11-7

bcmenv — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:01:20 GMT

Got to east of Portofine like everyone else has been a 0800. Put the line in at 0830 after catching some nice fleas. No luck. Move farther east at 1000. Got one keeper at 1045. Had to leave. But I'll be back.

Tommy

Pomps, pomps, and more pomps!

j_purdy — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:44:41 GMT

I had a chance to take my dad out this morning, so we decided to hit the beach. We went past portofino and scouted around. The spot we finally settled on was an area where the channel was funneled/squeezed between a shore point and a bend in the sandbar. First cast, 13" pomp. I started gathering some fleas, when dad sighted another pomp, presented a bait, BAM! 2 pomps. About 30 minutes passed and dad hooked a nice fish. My rod closest to him bows up, and then the next rod in the line goes off. That's the kind of chaos I love about pomp fishing. We landed all 3 pomps and hi-fived. MY dad doesn't get out too much, and he was grinning like a kid-AWESOME! We set out our baits again and proceeded to get bit every 10-15 minutes until we left. We only kept 6 fish between us, but we released 4 or 5 more. Just as we were packing up a pod of bobo's came in close(within 20 yards of shore) busting bait. We fired a couple of jigs into the fray but no takers. No matter-the day was great by any measure. The fish were caught on fresh shrimp and live fleas(1 on a jig), and we fished from 9:30-11:45. The afternoon bite should be strong, and maybe tomorrow morning before the front. Basically, get out there and catch some if you can. Dad kept 2 fish(16.5" and 15.75") and here are mine (all 13-15")

Tight lines,

Jason Purdy

Pensacola Beach 11/5

Telum Piscis — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:33:12 GMT

Met Dave (Naclh2odave) out at Pensacola beach in hopes for some fish. It was a georgeous morning with great weather and calm conditions. It seemed like everyone else had the same idea as we did as well. There were tons of people out past Portafino.

Unfortunately all we had was good weather. No fish to be had by us or anyone else for that matter. We couldn't even get anything to steal our bait. But it was nice to be out there.

I took my daughter out there and we just hung out and had a nice peacefull morning.

Gullf Shores Oct 30 -Nov 1

mehill10 — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 16:38:54 GMT

I just got back from gulf Shores on the west beach

Oct 30 we caught 12 pompano 14 to 21 inches

Oct 31 we caught 2 pompano and 1 whiting

Nov 1 we caught 6 pompano 14 to about 18 inches and 4 redfish 22 to about 28 inches

almost all the fish were caught in the afternoon on the rising high tide I did catch a few flounder but they were all to small to keep we were using peeled shrimp I could not find any sand fleas I would have posted this sooner but I do not have internet

I will post pictures when I get them out of the cam

Pensacola Beach

letsgofishin — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 16:37:37 GMT

Went out a bit this morning hoping for some pompano for dinner. It was kind of a slow day but still got 3. Also got a 30 inch redfish (released).I took the camera but the batteries were dead so no pics this time.I caught everything on sand fleas.

Put new batteries in the camera...Here is the only pic I could get.

Lunch at Pensacola Beach!!

Halfmoon — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:35:30 GMT

Figured I would hit the beach a little before noon see what is

out there.

First water conditions picture and the nice Pomps.

Slow but for about an hour before low water the fish where feeding.

Is that you JACK?

Fishermon — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 13:59:49 GMT

Caught a huge Jack on a pompano rig #2 circle hook off NB. Whata great fight took me a while to land it in. HAd my two kids with me this time ..funny thing was that my daughter wanted to potty the whole time I was reeling the monster in...."daddy daddy.....daddy i need to go"....zzzzzzzzzz , daaaaaaaaady"...... zzzzzzzzzzz!!!....it almost spool me out... got about three more turns left on the 706 that was it ..."daddy, daaaaaaaaddddddy" "i need to use the bathroom" zzzzzzzzz!!!! zzzzz!!!!!!...I gave my boy the rod and he faught 'm for a while , good thing is that at that instance my little girl got into the action too and forgot to use the potty for the moment. Ethan got tired after a while and pass me back the rod , sun was going down fast, by then I got half my line back in the spool....I knew the 20lb pompano rig and hook woulnd't last long...at first I thought i was a decent shark, but lasted to long pulling line to be one, then a king was out of the question due to their toothy teeth, cobia?...yeah..I wished..bull red? they dont fight that long I tought..finally got it about 30 yards inside , but couldn't see what it was....The Jack took three long runs almost spooling me out. Finally got to see it on the first braker and it was a huge Jack Cravelle, beautiful fish. Thanks to the guy that help me out with a net and thanks also to the guy that took the only picture on his cell phone. If you get to read this post please send it my way so I can post it. Great time with the kids one more time. :clap

More Flounder, Trout, & Croakers - Destin 10/20/08

reelfinatical — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:17:45 GMT

Went back to Norriego Point this afternoon for about 3 hours. I found a sweet spot on the Harbor side & hit the Flounder pretty strong. Scott kept trying spots and ended up with mostly weeds & grass. Then for some silly reason we chose to move down to the Point / Harbor entrance & try there but the fish weren't that thick there (at least where & when we were there).

Amanda: using pink Gulp strips on Carolina rig
6 Flounder
1 Sand Perch
1 big Lizardfish
1 medium Pinfish

Scott: using 3" chartruse Gulp grub tails on Carolina rig
2 Flounder
1 Trout
2 Croakers
1 Pinfish

We both had several more fish on that got off the hook before making it to shore.

Nice, cool afternoon. =) I keep hoping one of these afternoons to hook into a big un' =)

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My First Jack Crevalles

reelfinatical — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:58:19 GMT

I caught my very first Jack Crevalles today! :letsdrink

I did all my "work, chores, and errands", then grabbed some pink Gulp strips from Half Hitch, & headed for the Point again this afternoon. Spent two hours all by lonesome in a little "sweet spot" - catching small flounder, big pinfish, & then got into the Jacks! They were small but man they hit hard and pull hard! Lots of fun! =)

I think I know where I will be again tomorrow afternoon.. lol.

The first one.

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This one bit me. I was trying to remove the circle hook but he flipped and my finger went in its mouth. Left me with a few meaningful scratches. :P

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Sun setting

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10/18/08 east of Portofino

joe bag o donuts — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 09:47:44 GMT

Got out around 9am and caught tons of huge sandfleas. Threw out two rods and waited and waited and waited. I wasn't really happy with the spot I was at, but that's where the family wanted. A man about 200 yards down the beach was fishing a nice cut and caught about 3 while we were there and 4 before we'd come. Got bored watching the rods so I waded out on the sandbar and proceeded to catch some ladies and bluefish on spoons, jigs, and Mirrolures. After about 5 ladyfish something hit my lure and wouldn't let go. It fought about 3 times as hard as a lady and when it got close it jumped. I about fainted when I saw the huge mouth and slivery sides. After a couple more runs and jumps the 80lb mono I was using for a leader was severed and on it's final jump my fish was gone. I couldn't believe I'd hooked a little tarpon off the beach in October! Right before we left the 12' went off and a 18 inch pomp was there for dinner. Great day and awesome fishing!

Someone asked in my other post what rig I'm using. I take my main line. Put two dropper loops and tie the sinker on the end. I put a small orange bead in front of each 1/0 silver circle and whala. Plain and super stealthy. I'm using 17lb P-line by the way.

Thanks

Dead Mans Island

hunterfisher — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:44:40 GMT

Does any body know about any fish at dead mans island?:banghead

Maybe a dumb question...

bamaflyfish — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 01:27:16 GMT

I read some of the reports about using fleas as bait. What do they look like and how do you get them? I am an out of towner so this is foreign to me. Thanks for the help!

10/16/08 east of Portifino

joe bag o donuts — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 09:23:06 GMT

Got out around noon and was greeted by rough waves and perfect skies. Slight southeast wind, but 3 oz held my sandfleas perfectly still. Had a rod way out to a little before the waves were breaking (sandbar I assume) and another closer in. Both had sandfleas, circle hooks, and beads, Caught zip on the short rod. On the long rod I got two keeper pomps, a cobia about 15 inches long, a tiny jack, a huge crab, and too many catfish. All in all a good day.

I did learn to cast to different places in front of the sandbar. It seemed that the closer I casted to where I caught my first fish the more likely I was to catch another. It was in an area about 10 yards wide it seemed. Maybe I was just nuts, but if I wasn't happy with the placement I would recast. Oh, and the cast were really long since the fish seemed to be farther out. Also I had double hook rigs with one hook being black and one hook being silver. I didn't do it on purpose, that's just all I had. All the fish hit the silver hook. So no more black hooks for me.

Later

Reds at Alabama Point

dsar592 — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:01:35 GMT

Me and some fellas went to Alabama point on Sunday night. We were fishing with some live minnows that we caught in a cast net and some fresh dead shrimp. The bite was on. We caught ground mullet, white trout, gaftop catfish, hard head catfish, pin fish, mango snapper, and then about midnight, the reds started hitting. we landed 4 at about 10-15 lbs each. Sorry, i didn't take any pictures.

Assortment of fish

crazyfire — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 09:58:10 GMT

Me and pops went to our usual spot yesterday at about 2:30 pm. Had 5 rods in the water, some with shrimp, some with the 2000 sandfleas storming the beach, and 1 with some cut mullet. Well not long after gettin them in the water we were bringing them up with the ever so elusive catfish. About an hour into it someone opened up the racing gates and every pole started bouncing. Fished till dark. Ended up with 1 pomp 13", about a 12 inch cobia, 1 ladyfish, about 8 BIG bluefish, 7537 catfish, and a buzz. hopefully the pomps will start running more soon. Ive got a picture of the pomp, will add it later.

Jeff:usaflag

Broke in a new heaver in a good way!

Fuhrer48 — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:26:19 GMT

I do a lot of shore fishing with a buddy of mine and he had convinced me to buy a heaver to chuck larger baits a country mile. So I ordered a 12foot Tica through Dizzy Lizzy to use for reds and other large species from the beach. Well the rod came in and I threw my Salina 80 on it and took it out for a test drive. We got to our spot set up shop and caught some bait. I ended up catching one bull red and a large shark. Im not sure what species it is so if somebody could help me out on that it would be appreciated, I THINK its a blacktip but not positive. Anyway here are the pics. The red was caught on cut ladyfish and the shark was caught on a live pinfish.

Smells like FLOUNDER in Destin, 10/15/08

reelfinatical — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:27:39 GMT

Spent the afternoon fishing from Norriego Point. Got into a good number of small flounder, ladyfish, squirrel fish, and lizardfish. Everything was caught using chartruse 3" Gulp minnow grubs on carolina rigs.

No flounder kept (no ice or ruler, i think they were all too small anyway.?.), Did keep some ladyfish and lizardfish for Jaws tomorrow (that was "fun" trying to hide them under my bag from 3 birds that stayed near us & kept their eyes on them the whole time, lol).

Oh yeah: Circle K on 98 in Destin is now selling E10. We hauled the boat up there tonight and saw it - pulled on out of the parking lot and hauled her on up to the Tom Thumb on Okaloosa Island where there is no < 10% sh*t . . . . and in the process lost the gas cap. So if anyone sees one laying in the middle of 98 it's probably ours! =( Looks like we'll be getting a late start tomorrow. :banghead

One of the first Flounder of the afternoon:
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Erosion, it was so steep I thought I was back at Jockey's Ridge (OBX):
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Shark bait for tomorrow: =)
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here lizard, lizard:
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Flounder burying into the sand - I scooted him back into deeper water so he wouldn't get "washed up":
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Pomps and reds 10/15

naclh2oDave — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:03:56 GMT

Actually it was only one red, but Telem Piscus (Jon) and I got out this AM for a follow up to Mondays trip with pretty much the same results. Jon still caught a metric ton of catfish but he also caught all the pomps ,three, and was babysitting my rod while I ran to the truck for a cooler to put HIS pomp in when a slot red hit it. Technically he caught it but I kept it anyway.

We were down past portofino, there were plenty of fleas for bait. The current was kind of strong from the east, we used between 4-6oz of lead on the gear and the fish were inside the 2nd bar. The action was pretty steady if you counted the catfish, when the pompano came it was only one bite at a time. Nothing too hectic but enough to hang around all morning.

Orange Beach 10/14

gulfdreamin — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 08:53:21 GMT

Went down yesterday afternoon with the daughter and had a little luck. Caught 5 reds and a couple of flounder using squid and shrimp. We found a washout in the first trough that went from ankle deep water to about 5 feet and that was where we found them. Didn't really know size limits so we threw them all back. Had a couple that I could never turn that released themselves. These were my first redfish and flounder for that matter so I was pretty excited. Got some pics, trying to figure out how to post them.

Redfish and Pomps 10/13

Telum Piscis — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:34:29 GMT

Myself and Dave (naclh2odave) got up and headed out to Pensacola beach for some surf fishing. We both had nothing better to do today. So what better way to pass the day than a rod in the water with a beer in hand and hope for some fish.

Got to the beach and rods were in the water about 9:30 this morning. The fleas were plentifull and big. Got enough for a few hours in about 2 rakes. We showed up to cloudy skies, wind howling out of the east pelting us with sand, and some rough conditions. But we were determined. About 30 minutes later, Dave's rod goes off and get's a slot red to the beach. A nice one at 26". :letsdrink

I was the catfish king today. I probably caught about 20 damn catfish today. But I finally hooked up on something that didn't seem to fight like a catfish and I pulled in my first ever Pompano. And it was a good fat keeper at 14".

Dave pulled in another pomp shortly after mine. The sun started to finally come out and the wind died down as well and it turned into one nice day.

About this time it was lunch time and we headed over to Peg Legs and ate some oysters and grouper sandwiches.

Headed back to the beach and I again continued to catch catfish after catfish while Dave caught two more keeper pomps.:clap

It was a much better day than sitting at the house. Dave took some pictures of the final catch. I'll have to get him to post them up.

Saturday Report

letsgofishin — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:16:33 GMT

Got out early this morning. Fleas are still plentiful. Caught 5 Pompano. The largest at 17 1/2 inches. Going again in the A.M. If anyone wants to join me just holler.I'll check PM's later.Sorry for the short report.I have a ton of stuff to get done today.

Friday Oct 10 Pensacola Beach

naclh2oDave — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 07:55:53 GMT

Went in the afternoon hoping for the best. The seas were flat with the occasional ripple.

The slime was rolling in from the east but if I waded out then I could cast past the band that was there.

I caught a few baby pompano on squid and shrimp plus a few catfish and a baby cravelle.

No keepers but I had cold beer and a camera so I was occupied. I was there for about 3 hours and was busy enough reeling in the babies.