Some pics from this afternoon

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I got out for a few hours this afternoon. Saw a bit of wildlife and picked up a few fish. Only fished for a bit, I mostly rode around, enjoying the sunshine; it's going to rain here tomorrow.

With these and the ones from my other post, I have enough for a little fish fry for supper tomorrow night. I was hoping for a few more of those little channel cat,but only caught one today.

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Caught this guy enjoying the sunshine too.

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What is this? A carp? :confused:

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I know what this is.

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Another fellow fish chaser, coming in for a landing.

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Let me know real quick she didn't want me around.

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These things have a lot of color for a freshwater fish..

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Maybe this rain will clear out by Sunday. I want to go back down to the peninsula and do some more surf fishing. Keeping my fingers crossed.
 
trukreltrog said:
Cool pics! Are the gators protected? :eek::foot:
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Kinda. You can't just go get one. If you want to hunt a certain area, you get a couple of tags from the FWC. You get a pair now, was just one. They are good for your area. Like for me, it is the county I live in. Other areas may just be a certain lake or area. Most folks hook them with a set line, using a coon or chicken for bait, then finish them with a bang stick. Some people shoot them with a bow or crossbow with a line attached, then pop them with the bang stick. Then some people don't use a bang stick, but stab them behind the head. That's always a good practice however you boat it. Can't use guns, and you have to have some sort of line in the gator before you kill it.
 
Oh, and you get a specific week to fill your tags. Kinda a pain in the rear end, but I guess no worse than some other hunting regulations.
 
The perch around here are just starting to bite. We took cane rods out earler this week and had a blast catching them. Thanks for sharing the pics.
 
My first guess would be redfish. I don't know the fish where you are, but redfish and gators go together better than carp, I think.

At least THIS didn't happen while you were fishing! 10 seconds later the bobber was in his mouth. We still have the bobber with the teeth marks!
 

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zaph1 said:
My first guess would be redfish. I don't know the fish where you are, but redfish and gators go together better than carp, I think.

At least THIS didn't happen while you were fishing! 10 seconds later the bobber was in his mouth. We still have the bobber with the teeth marks!
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I've never seen a redfish as far up the river as I was. There are for sure have carp around here now. The guy with the camp next to mine caught one on his catfish rig, and I saw one dead and floating. This thing in the pic was huge, with big scales, and in very shallow water. At first I thought mudfish, but it was feeding on something, not hitting it like a mudfish does. Then it stuck it's tail out of the water, and most it's dorsal area, and I knew it wasn't a mudfish. I'd like to hook up on it. Nobody around here ever fishes for them. Anybody got any tips?


You were lucky to get your bobber back! I've lost more than one top water lure to a gator. The little ones are the worse about it.
 
Yeah, my 8 year old freaked and started throwing rocks at it because it was his bobber. We were pulling out smaller fish until then, biting pretty well. I have 1080p video of the ordeal, and laugh every time I see my son throwing a rock at the gator. I was interviewing him afterwards and he said it was the gator that killed Chubbs from Happy Gilmore.
 
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