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Post by fishsci on Apr 30, 2023 19:51:40 GMT -5
Nobody at all this entire weekend? Nobody to report anything? This site is dying a slow death. Sad....
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Post by fishfinderbill on Apr 30, 2023 19:57:46 GMT -5
The weather was not good this weekend. Even if it was, you can't report on what you don't catch, unless you want a Sabiki caught pin fish and greenback report.
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Post by inoeatfish on Apr 30, 2023 21:49:08 GMT -5
A friend once told me if you don’t hear any fishing report, that means the action is on fire.
But if people report nothing is eating, then it’s true.
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Post by fishsci on May 1, 2023 9:16:44 GMT -5
The weather was not good this weekend. Even if it was, you can't report on what you don't catch, unless you want a Sabiki caught pin fish and greenback report. Reports -- that say that you caught nothing or just a few small trash fish -- and say where and when you fished are valuable to others. They give them information as to where and when they might avoid. Reports are not about bragging, or at least they should not be. They are most valuable for you and others to try to figure out the best time, place, and target species. You reap what you sow.
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Post by tears143 on May 1, 2023 17:35:18 GMT -5
Kingfish was caught. Wont say when but it is recently.
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Post by seabird on May 2, 2023 10:35:59 GMT -5
Nobody at all this entire weekend? Nobody to report anything? This site is dying a slow death. Sad.... Have not fished the good places...skyway etc. because my wife's recovery from an operation so I just go for brief trips nearby. I don't report the pins and other small stuff.
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Post by stuckintherocks on May 2, 2023 12:14:57 GMT -5
Nobody at all this entire weekend? Nobody to report anything? This site is dying a slow death. Sad.... Here’s my report from last night up until right now. Started last night around 8pm bought half way down ssp. Tough fishin.. windy as hell. caught a few lady fish and decided to throw medium to large size cut baits for the night. Had two very good bites, one on half of a small lady lady fish that completely scaled the bait, no teeth marks so possibly a grouper or tarpon. It popped off, second bite was very similar but also popped off.. after that had a screaming bite.. after a very exhausting battle it was a black tip probably around 4 and a half to 5 foot. Stayed through the night and tried for Mack’s earlier.. bait deep and no signs of any fish, no fish seen caught.
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Post by calcolater on May 3, 2023 15:11:41 GMT -5
Kingfish was caught. Wont say when but it is recently. Last weekend saw one on NSP skying on some bait and it nailed a small bird. Not a seagull but a smaller one. Hardcore. Just mad he didn’t eat my bait I had out there
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Post by seabird on May 3, 2023 16:06:09 GMT -5
Fishsci wanted reports. Mine is pretty modest. Fished today from 730am to 9am at Bellaire causeway...fairly windy with a 15 mph north wind. Caught 17 pins and kept for a Filipino lady who likes small fish. Also took home 2 small whiting. Used partial sabiki with squid. Saw flipper feeding close by.
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Post by fishsci on May 3, 2023 20:54:57 GMT -5
Fishsci wanted reports. Mine is pretty modest. Fished today from 730am to 9am at Bellaire causeway...fairly windy with a 15 mph north wind. Caught 17 pins and kept for a Filipino lady who likes small fish. Also took home 2 small whiting. Used partial sabiki with squid. Saw flipper feeding close by. Thanks Seabird. Although I was trying to get fishermen to post reports about fishing at the Skyway Piers (the focus of this site), hearing other reports is interesting and never hurts. First of all, I want to commend you for your caring for your wife and her recovery ... more than for your fishing. I hope that all here, like me are very much hoping for her quick and complete recovery. Also you deserve to be commended for catching and giving those pinfish to the Philippine lady. People from other cultures so often know how to prepare fish that we do not appreciate and use and do so to make them good. Maybe next time aske her how she prepares them. That reminds me of a time, many, many years ago -- when I first came to South Florida from the Ohio/Pennsylvania area. I found that using small pieces of dead shrimp along the Intercoastal seawalls, I could easily catch many panfish sized pinfish. They were the same size, and they looked similar to the bluegills I was used to catching up north. So I brought home a nice stringer of them, and my Mom fried them up...just like she did with bluegills. Yuck! But I am sure that the Philippine lady prepares pinfish so that she and her family enjoy them very much. Maybe, given how fishing has declined recently, it is time that we all learn to utilize and appreciate what fish are left. Again, best wishes for your wife and you.......
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Post by seabird on May 4, 2023 5:17:58 GMT -5
Fishsci, thanks for the kind words for both my wife and myself.
Yes, pinfish are nowhere close to how good bluegills taste!
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Post by carlf on May 4, 2023 6:36:36 GMT -5
Hope you wife is well Seabird.
Pinfish: I've scaled gutted & baked "bluegill" size pinfish and found them to be tasty. But then I also make fish tacos with blue runners/hardtails and bluefish. My family likes fish that taste like fish!
I hope to get out soon, to the Gandy or Fort Desoto, I'll make sure to post a report!
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Post by silverspoon on May 4, 2023 8:31:46 GMT -5
My family came from Cuba in the 60s, right after that gutter rat piece of S### took over the country. I remember summer breaks all thru the 70s going to Fort Desoto every Sunday with my brothers and cousins, always dreaming of the big fish we were going to catch. Long story short they were about 99.9% pinfish. My mom and her sister would painstakingly scale them, butterfly filet them leaving the belly to hold the wings together, and carefully removing every bone, literally 50 to 60 pinfish each Sunday. They'd split the processed catch and we'd go home where my mom, after a long hard day would happily batter and coat with garlic salt and bread crumb and fry some up. They were out of this world delicious. They would refer to them as caga-itos, meaning little S###s in spanish.
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Post by Flatsrunner on May 4, 2023 11:33:07 GMT -5
Well told story,I grew up and worked in the Miami / Hollywood area in the 70's and 80's.I worked and fished with many Spanish friends and couldn't believe the stories they would tell of the repression and struggles of people, missed those days of clear water and great fishing and great little corner cafes, still some areas for good fishing but not like back then. Would give a little insight why people would be willing to leave everything behind for a better life.
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Post by fishsci on May 4, 2023 18:13:24 GMT -5
I was in S. FL and to Cuba a couple of times around 1960. The fishing in the outer provinces was amazing...like the Keys, but better. Fished for white marlin just offshore and within sight of the Morro Castle just off Havana....catching 6-8 whites in a day was not exceptional. The disparity between the rich and the very poor was extreme and heart rendering. No wonder there was a revolution. But like in very many cases, the leaders of the revolution make it all about their own power, and not not about what is best for the people. I lived in S. FL for the next 25 or so years -- Miami mostly the latter years. There were so many Cuban immigrants in Miami. They were, with the exception of a few Mariel criminals a very positive addition to the area. However, I understand why they fled, but I always wondered if things would have turned out different for Cuba if they had stayed to fight Castro. Even more curious is why today so many Miami Cubans (and their reasonable sympathizers) want to build a wall to stop people who now are like they were in the 60's & 70's --- just trying to flee from a violent dictators and repression in places like Honduras, Nicaragua, and such.
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Post by Flatsrunner on May 4, 2023 19:25:19 GMT -5
They tried in 1961 "Bay Of Pigs Invasion" it failed and was financed by CIA, the survivors were exchanged for a small sum of $53 million worth of food and medicine.
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Post by fishsci on May 4, 2023 20:15:49 GMT -5
They tried in 1961 "Bay Of Pigs Invasion" it failed and was financed by CIA, the survivors were exchanged for a small sum of $53 million worth of food and medicine. And they gave up after that? And now after over 70 years ago, they do not care about others that could get the same easy path that they were given? How us that right or understandable?
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Post by carlf on May 4, 2023 20:19:20 GMT -5
We could debate a lot of the politics around these issues for days on end. But Let's stick to fishing!
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Post by fishsci on May 4, 2023 20:43:01 GMT -5
There were 1,400 cuban fighters at Bay of Pigs. There were 260,000 Cubans who fled to Florida. That is less than half of a percent, relatively. If the US gave up like that, we would all be speaking German now. But I was talking about fishing...in Cuba...but I did not bring up the topic about why people left Cuba. Or was that too woke for us to think about that?
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Post by silverspoon on May 5, 2023 12:41:01 GMT -5
All power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely - Lord Acton
Simple answer in a nutshell...the people were lied to to support the gutter rat piece of $### and when the wolf's disguise fell they fled that communist azz-wipe. they were not warriors they were mostly fathers and mothers with their children who had to give up everything of possession to leave. The US did not want to start a war over another islands governance so it was left to the few Cubans who were willing to fight, and they were outgunned and taken to a horrible landing spot (Bay of Pigs) that left them vulnerable to slaughter. End of story.
It is a generalization on your part to say Cubans don't want immigrants from South America. I believe it is more accurate to say people want immigration to be legal. As example, the USA has deported Cubans who did not fall within the requirements of immigration laws at the time they arrived, why should millions from other countries be allowed to come in illegally? valid question.
And now back to your regular programming of fishing!
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Post by Mackerelman on May 5, 2023 18:51:13 GMT -5
We could debate a lot of the politics around these issues for days on end. But Let's stick to fishing! Politics & Religion is Not Allowed on this Site. This is a Fishing Site ! Look at the Headline on the Main Page if You don't believe Me. People have been Warned before on those 2 Topics. It is at the News Section when You Log On..
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Post by fishsci on May 5, 2023 21:37:00 GMT -5
OK, lets get some fishing news here. Is pelican scalping fishing news? But I admit that Cuban history and politics is not fishing -- but I did not introduce it. Not that I am putting anyone down for bringing it up in a post about remembering Cuban families and history. However, once it is put out there, it is fair game for reasonable replies. Yes, we all would prefer legal immigration. But if what was so liberally allowed for Cuban immigration (and I do not/did not oppose that), almost everything would be legal immigration now. It was wet-foot/dry foot (boat from Cuba stepping on Florida beaches completely legal) but why not stepping on dry-foot across the Rio Grande being legal immigration??? OK, lets get back to fishing...but where are the fishermen reports...the original topic of this thread?
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Post by fishsci on May 5, 2023 21:47:49 GMT -5
OK, lets get some fishing news here. Is pelican scalping fishing news? But I admit that Cuban history and politics is not fishing -- but I did not introduce it. Not that I am putting anyone down for bringing it up in a post about remembering Cuban families and history. However, once it is put out there, it is fair game for reasonable replies. Yes, we all would prefer legal immigration. But if what was so liberally allowed for Cuban immigration (and I do not/did not oppose that), almost everything would be legal immigration now. It was wet-foot/dry foot (boat from Cuba stepping on Florida beaches completely legal) but why not stepping on dry-foot across the Rio Grande being legal immigration??? OK, lets get back to fishing...but where are the fishermen reports...the original topic of this thread? And just to be clear, I appreciate Silverspoon's reasonable and rational replies...even his colorful descriptions are OK by me. He at least replies rationally and civilly. Plus, this is not really about politics or religion. Considering the lack of fishing reports and discussion, at least we have something meaningful to discuss in this otherwise empty forum.
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Post by fishfinderbill on May 6, 2023 13:56:13 GMT -5
I don't usually go to the pier on the weekends. Today I was reminded why. Let me say that at the end of the day there were an awful lot of disappointed people. Other than bait which there was alot of virtually nobody caught any "Take Home" fish.
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Post by carlf on May 6, 2023 13:59:54 GMT -5
I blew off work and went out on Double Eagle all day yesterday. Kept over 40 grunts and porgies, threw back at least 5 short red grouper and 2 short mangrove snappers. Tossed back some small grunts and tomtates too. Lost a huge Spanish Mac at the boat, was only hit on a flat line all day. Fun day and I didn't have to drive or clean the boat. Spinning tackle, light rigs and live shrimp are the key. I used a 6500 series rod with 25# line, 3/0 hooks and a 2oz sinker. Outfished everyone else on the boat.
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Post by conureman on May 8, 2023 18:54:37 GMT -5
Caught this bad boy yesterday
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Post by fishsci on May 8, 2023 21:26:05 GMT -5
Nice, at least a report...But where, when, and how did you catch that nice mack? Nobody is going to take that fish away from you or even take it away -- even the next day. But if someone posted that kind of pic with the place/time/how info, it could help you ... and others have a successful trip some other time.
Sorry to be a broken record, but is there really any reason for people to not give that kind of information in their report?
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Post by conureman on May 8, 2023 21:49:54 GMT -5
Calm down its my first time here on the forum but yesterday on the south pier past the bait house around noon on live greenback. Lost about 4 spoons and 4 long shank hooks that had live greenback and activity died about 3 when the dolphins showed up. Around 7ish people near me were being bit off and they were using greenbacks so I'd imagine macks but who knows. Hope that's enough info.
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Post by carlf on May 9, 2023 6:31:56 GMT -5
What pound test were you using? That's a lot of cut-offs. I use 40 or 50# for macs.
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Post by conureman on May 9, 2023 7:22:48 GMT -5
I was using 40 pound fluorocarbon as my leader
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