Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: Zuma on January 14, 2016, 03:59:51 pm
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Did pretty good with the Whiting last evening.
Damn mosquitoes.
Zuma
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Ohhhhhh man, serve those up with some grits..... Id be in heaven! Most meat and least bones on any fish ever. My mouth is actually watering. Thanks.
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good snook bait ;D where you at on the gulf?
bone
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Sleek, we are cookin a batch right now. Thinking of ya. >:D
Rog, I'm on Dauphin Island AL. Come on over. ;)
Zuma
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Nice catch Zuma.
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Zuma- I lived in mobile for 10 years. Still get back because the inlaws are in Pascagoula. You have some really talented people in your area in the ways of PA.
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Whiting, Croakers, darn good eating fish.
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Love that fresh fish......Yea.I was down in Gulf shores once back in 2000.Ate shrimp there that was very very good.Lots better than up north here.I'll catch bluegills here in the pond ice fishing.Their pretty good too.
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I call em bream but they are a perch with a black dot just behind the gill. They get big as your hand, have lots of bones, and are probably the beat tasting freah water fish.
I have used the whiting heads to catch shark before. You shoukd hook up a head, toss it out, and see what you catch.
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Yes that's right sleek.Use wax worms for them in the winter.
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Thanks Rob,
Very tasty Eddie.
Howbo, I mostly just spend the winter down here. "Red Neck Riviea"
Bead and sleek, Try some fillets cut into 1"-11/2" chunks. Quickly boil with a
little beer. Cool and dip in drawn butter. Doing some whiting like that tonight.
Redneck lobster.
Zuma
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Ok, im on my way.
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I've heard it is an increased iodine level in whiting that gives them their distinctive taste. All I know is they are about my favorite fresh caught ocean fish. What did they hit?
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Probably shrip or squid. And if its true, the shrimp diet they have would explain the iodine levels.
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Very true. Shrimp the fresher the better.
Really strange bitting habits with those buggers. I went back
out the next day and no one caught a single one.
Wind direction??
Zuma
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When that happens switch to squid. You would be surprised to find you are the only one catching. You probably feed them too much shrimp yesterday and they want something different.
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In Florida, always used to fish them with fresh Sand Fleas caught right in the Surf. Bob
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We were catching some pretty nice Bull Whiting at night off Flagler pier just north of Daytona. No one else was getting any bites. The wise fisherwoman I was fishing with had figured out if I caught some ribbonfish during the day and we cut them to some pretty good chunks and used them we were golden for that evening. Fresh, shinny, stinky, small large pieces, night , day, move it, let it lay, hold your mouth right, keep your worms warm, blaaaa,.
Fish can be picky. Thanks goodness I get lucky every now and then.
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I remember being out in the perch boat last summer and ,boy, we were on um. Hooking doubles and triples as soon as our rigs hit bottom. There was only one other boat out that day and they seemed to be getting closer every time we looked up ::). We saw they weren't catching anything and flagged them over. We were close to our limit and willing to give them the spot. They anchored up right on top of us. We could've high-fived between boats if we wanted to. They dropped the same type of bait fish on the same style rig we had and they couldn't get a hit. We limited out after another 10 minutes or so and lifted anchor and drifted away. As we fired the engine and took off they were just starting to catch a few. They must have had their bait within 6' of our feeding frenzy and those fish were so keyed in on our bait they never noticed. Another time we went out they'd only hit the shiners if we cut them in half, wanted nothing to do with live or even whole dead ones.
I've also seen steelhead in the creeks pooled in the deep holes by the hundreds. Guys are jammed shoulder to shoulder tossing every bait imaginable and the fish ignore all of it. Then one guy will put on the last fly in his box, the one he's never fished with before and wasn't ever gonna. Sure enough the comatose fish turn into 2'+ piranhas. Anymore, when I tie for steelhead I only do variations on classic patterns. A majority of the time they just want something different, especially if the fishing pressure is high.
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Just goes to show ya, you need to wash your hands when you go to the bathroom.
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Or after a hard days fishing, befors you go to the bathroom.