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Trigger
 
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we have been working on the boat now for the past 3 weekends and have been itching to take her out for some flounder. well we went this morning the tides were decent but we forgot about all the rain from gustav so Escambia was still pretty high, the water was still dirty, and it had no salt in it  but we fished for a few hours using jigs and caught a bunch of little specks and whites and a 22" red for dinner. the catch of the day though was this big chain pickerel aka jackfish. ive only caught a few of these and this one is one of the bigger ones. she was just over 25" and weighed about 5lbs 
look at these teeth 
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Grouper
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that is a cool fish! you got him on a jig?
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Thats a crazy looking fish. Nice catch. Congrats on the slot red.
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| That is an awesome catch...KUDOS to you! I didn't know we had Pickerel in this warm water of the South. 
   
KEEP AN OCCASSIONAL RED HERE AND THERE FOR DINNER, BUT FOR THE REST, PRACTICE HEALTHY CATCH & RELEASE TECHNIQUES SAVE SOME FOR THE FUTURE!
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Trigger
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| Pretty cool fish except if he got your finger, it would get your attention quick. I was out in the Escambia River Friday also and my friend and I caught 2 slot reds. Ted
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| That's a very nice "jack". They are some very fine eating if you clean him correctly. 1st- Cut his head off and gut him. Then you lay him on a cutting board and cut him all the way through into three or four pieces. Next you "gash" him with cuts about 1/8th" apart, all the way down the pieces. Gash them on both sides but be careful not to cut through the backbone. You then salt and pepper them, skake them in corn meal and drown them in grease.
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You know, my dad and I saw what we thought was a gar while we were flyinf along in the boat on the sound side by Tiger point in Navarre, now that I look at this I guess this is what we saw, but this thing was at least 3 feet.
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Trigger
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| That's a very nice "jack". They are some very fine eating if you clean him correctly. 1st- Cut his head off and gut him. Then you lay him on a cutting board and cut him all the way through into three or four pieces. Next you "gash" him with cuts about 1/8th" apart, all the way down the pieces. Gash them on both sides but be careful not to cut through the backbone. You then salt and pepper them, skake them in corn meal and drown them in grease. |
Thanks guys, yes I caught on him on a jig, actually it was a watermelon culprit worm with a jig head and cut strip for flounder. Pickerel are very good eating, they are one of my top picks of fish to eat. They have soft white meat that tastes really sweet. We clean them by scaleing them first, then cutting off each fillet. Pickerel have tons of little bones in their fillets so you have to dice the meat into small cubes being careful not to cut through the skin to keep the fillet intac. If done right when you fry them up the bones will basically disolve. Then it is time to dig in.
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| Don't you all know how to Y-bone a pike? It is the only way I will eat them?
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| ive heard of doing that y bone trick but i dont know how to. care to explain?
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I hate ALL jackfish. I've lost too many plugs to them. If you really wanna catch them use anything in Firetiger color. I've caught them with this color by top water, crankbaiting, rubber worms, I even caught one bream fishing with my cork. he bit it and wouldn't let go so I put him in the boat. I could show you lakes on Escambia overun with them. Hate'm!
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You got that right, you can lose a bunch of tackle to them. During the winter, and early spring there is nothing cooler than seeing them hit a topwater bait. I love catching them off those Zoom Horny Toads. Use a piece of 40lb test leader and a off set 5/0 or 6/0 worm hook. Throw around every branch sticking out in the water. You will know when they are there, they look like a torpedo goin across the top of the water goin after that frog.
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You know, my dad and I saw what we thought was a gar while we were flyinf along in the boat on the sound side by Tiger point in Navarre, now that I look at this I guess this is what we saw, but this thing was at least 3 feet.There is a differance between gar and jack. gar are found in salt and freshwater usually with longer pointier noses, though the biggest i have saw, about 5 1/2' are in fresh water. Jacks, shorter wider mouths are mostly found in fresh water rivers but even more so in lakes. A family friend had a lake overrun with em, we caught and neted 200 plus . They were eating all the small bream and bass! This is just my experience may not be completly correct?
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Jaster is right, they can easily over run a lake and can quickly become a problem. They are very aggresive and eat just about anything. Even if they dont kill their prey, it doesnt get away without a nasty scar. So when you have a lake with alot of jackfish in it, what ends up happening is most of your bass and bream will have permanent teeth marks goin up and down em.
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its been awhile but the last time i checked the state record is like 7 lbs. my cousin and me actually target jack fish. we use dressed fly line to stay out of the stumps with a float. the big ones hide in the back of creeks off rivers. they like clear water. our cork is only 10 inches from the hook, those jacks arent scared. we use 4 to 5 inch bream for bait and have accidently caught some nice bass with that set up. when the jack takes your bait you calmly reach in your pocket pull out a cigarette then you get your lighter and light the cigarette, take a thoughtful drag, blow it out ask your fishing partner "should i set the hook yet" your partner answers "give him another minute" you then take another thoughtful drag and blow it out. then you ask again and your fishing partner says "he might have it" you take another drag off you cigarette, blow it out, scratch your butt, then set the hook and hold on!!! we have come close on that 7 lbs. i think there are some records in this area.
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nextstep pm sent
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back at ya snakeman
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