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Post by shot33gun9 on Aug 15, 2023 22:19:11 GMT -5
Them pesky dolphins, annoying but interesting...sure they will take your bait, but they're just cruising, waiting for someone to hook a decent fish. I've lost some macks to them which is normal but I had one rip a mack from me but stayed on the surface, made a circle and came up to the pier below my feet and stopped looking up at me with my mack in his mouth. I'm not sure if it was thanking me or just "putting it in my face". I read the military uses them to guard submarine bases
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Post by Flatsrunner on Aug 16, 2023 6:14:38 GMT -5
Them pesky dolphins, annoying but interesting...sure they will take your bait, but they're just cruising, waiting for someone to hook a decent fish. I've lost some macks to them which is normal but I had one rip a mack from me but stayed on the surface, made a circle and came up to the pier below my feet and stopped looking up at me with my mack in his mouth. I'm not sure if it was thanking me or just "putting it in my face". I read the military uses them to guard submarine bases All of the above.
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Post by tears143 on Aug 16, 2023 7:11:07 GMT -5
Them pesky dolphins, annoying but interesting...sure they will take your bait, but they're just cruising, waiting for someone to hook a decent fish. I've lost some macks to them which is normal but I had one rip a mack from me but stayed on the surface, made a circle and came up to the pier below my feet and stopped looking up at me with my mack in his mouth. I'm not sure if it was thanking me or just "putting it in my face". I read the military uses them to guard submarine bases I believe that the dolphins at skyway are now completely trained to depend on fishermen for food. It probably is on their 3rd generation of the mother teaching its young to steal food off the hook. I have lost quite a few groupers and snappers to them already.
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Post by fishingmagician on Aug 16, 2023 8:49:27 GMT -5
I. Watched a documentary on TV about the military using them and the resurch they were doing on their sonar and metal detection capability, they painted Two balls, 1 brass and 1 steel, the dolphin could pick the brass ball with 100% accuracy. And with sonar could swim straight to a 55 drum that was hidden on the sea floor, again with 100% accuracy.
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Post by silverspoon on Aug 16, 2023 8:52:21 GMT -5
Don't be fooled about what is going on, they are extremely intelligent and fully understand our relationship, humans are catching food for them! Regarding the dolphin showing you the fish, I've had a dolphin show me its redfish caught in front of me while I was attempting to wade fish, stuck its head out of the water with the red in its mouth just to show me the catch, I felt it was showing off and knew I was trying to catch one but wasn't able! Considering it scared off all the fish. They are not the ones trained, the humans are trained to feed them! When the humans aren't catching, they go off and get their food elsewhere, we are just a convenience when the opportunity arises.
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Post by stuckintherocks on Aug 16, 2023 8:56:00 GMT -5
If you spend enough time you can literally watch the mother dolphin teach the baby how to steal baits.. I’ve said it before but I’ve even hooked the baby by accident before.. swam right up to the pier and looked me dead in the face til I just had to cut the line and release it.. some dolphins have learned to grab the bait before the hook and just swim full force until you put enough tension on spool that it pops off the hook, but some of the real devious sh*t head smaller ones have learned to pull you straight into a rock pile or around a piling… they won’t touch a hard head catfish though, one time I caught one and had the dolphin chase it all the way in.. was hoping he’d unhook it for me but didn’t get so lucky
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Post by bluerunner on Aug 18, 2023 15:42:10 GMT -5
I was at Fort De Soto fishing at the first 't' right where the rocks make their turn perpendicular to the pier. Was fishing that spot that morning and a few older guys were fishing catching, sheepshead and snapper. I think one dude said he was from NY or somewhere up north like that. Well he was right next to me and hooked a nice sheepshead. And this massive dolphin (much bigger than the ones I usually see at the skyway) started after the sheepshead. Dude was doing everything to keep that fish away and at one point the dolphin was at the top of the water and turned belly up with its mouth wide open trying to grab the fish. Even the sheepshead was like, "Pull me up, fk'n pull me up!". Luckily he pulled it up in time, but man was that awesome threeway to watch.
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