fish list

I caught my first bluefish yesterday! In retrospect, I should've kept it, but I really didn't feel like cleaning it, and the guy fishing next to me was eager to take it home, so I gave it to him. I had questioned whether it was of legal size, thinking the limit was 16" (my fish was 16.75"), but I just checked the regs, and I was way legal (size limit is 12") oh well. Anyway, I figured it's a good time to make a knock list of the fish I've caught thus far...

Bluefish (16.75")

Snook (26")

Black tip Shark (4')

Bonnethead Shark (4.5')

Snapper

Mangrove

Lane

Mutton

Longnose Gar (25")

Spotted Seatrout (27")

Black Drum (21")

Croaker (20")

Whiting (16")

Sheepshead (19")

Pompano (12")

Spanish Mackerel (16")

Pike (25")

Grouper

Goliath (15 lbs)

Gag (23")

Trash fish:

Sailtop Catfish (9 lbs)

Ladyfish

Pufferfish

Toadfish

stingrays

Baitfish:

Mullet

Threadfin herring

Pilchards

Pass crabs

Blue crabs

Sand fleas

Fish I'd like to catch

Red fish (Red drum)

Slot Snook (28"-32")

Tripletail

Spadefish

Tarpon

Cobia

Bonefish

Wahoo

Snakehead

Mayan Cichlid

Maybe I'll upload pictures later, don't feel like it at the mo'

recent activities

Wow, it's almost October... It's hard to mark the passage of time when the weather here stays consistently hot basically all year. All of this 80-90 degree weather makes me yearn for autumn, chill breezes, blowing leaves and warm apple cider.

Well lately I've been fishing some different spots, and I've had some new experiences with different species....

This isn't a pic of the fish I caught (mine was smaller than this) but I recently caught a longnose gar in brackish water:

and I've also caught my first barracuda:
So that's been good, it's nice to catch anything really, and when it's a new-to-me species, all the better.

I've also been able to repair some older reels that we have lying around, which is very satisfying as it would have cost over $40 to get them fixed or to replace them, and more importantly I have the knowledge now to do it myself, with under $20 invested in replacement parts.