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    Florida

    in Outlaws Abroad

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    19 hours ago, JonC said:

     For me the best bit was the family of raccoons that lived on the roof, piss taking little fks 🤣

    Which one did you go to, we were in Tallahassee 

    Florida

    in Outlaws Abroad

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    On 10/16/2023 at 1:46 PM, JonC said:

    From the photos it looks as though you are fishing on one of my marks? We have spoken about this already. Nice fish though. 
    Have you had a good wander around the Bass Pro shop? 
    what a shop, everything you could ever want in one place. 

    I did let the skipper know we were dangerously close to one of your marks but he really didn’t seem bothered.

    Yes we did pop into the bass pro shop and wow, there’s literally everything you can possibly imagine, from hunting with cross bows to marine electronics, you can even buy a boat. I’ve never seen so many rods in one place. Got some Gulp alive bait which we were using to catch the red fish. Be interesting to see how they work back home. 

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    Florida

    in Outlaws Abroad

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    So me and the wife have flown across the pond to see an old school friend who lives in Tallahassee Florida via New Orleans. He’s also a keen angler so he organised a fishing trip.  We’ve travelled from Tallahassee to a small town called Apalachicola for a few days and yesterday we went out with captain John Layne from JB charters and fished the St.Vincent sound targeting red drum  It was a bit overcast but flat Calm, fishing was a bit slow so we tried a few different marks caching small red drum, pin fish and cat fish Tim catching most of them,  fishing in about 2 ft of water using light tackle. Then Tim caught a lively 10lb red drum which gave an hell of a fight and went back as it was a breeding size fish. I still continued with the small fish. The time to pack up came and went as John wanted me to catch a decent fish. Then on my last cast my reel screened off and after a very tiring 15 minute battle (these fish fight hard) John netted a 30lb red drum.  

    when we came back John took us back to his house where he prepped the fish and which we could keep and we took to a local resteraunt. 
      He also run us back to the hotel in his rock crawler 4wd, these Americans like their toys. 
     The boat was pretty awesome, a centre console design powered by a 250 Yamaha which did over 60 knots. What was interesting is that it didn’t have an anchor, on the bow is an electric trolling motor which keeps the boat in position by gps, on the aft they have “power poles”which in shallow water are deployed by a motor and extend down into the mud to hold the boat. 
      Fantastic days fishing with an old mate that I don’t see enough of and a brilliant skipper. 
     


     

     

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    Bass on lure

    in Catch reports

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    IMG_2448.thumb.jpeg.41c7e61df99d879e47b9e6b0174ece63.jpegWent out from Brightlingsea yesterday with the wife to watch the barge race and sleep on the boat, no intention of fishing, the wife even had me take all the fishing gear off the boat. Luckily I left the spinning rod on board. 
       Got about a mile out from Brightlingsea and saw loads of seagulls diving, so out came the rod and I drifted for about an hour catching small bass on a Surface popper, must have been hundreds of them, the water was gin clear which is unusual for the area. They were throwing themselves on the hooks, even though they were small it was good fun. 
       Then back to the creek, for some food and a cider(s) and watch the sun go down. Came back this morning. 

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    Pb Tope

    in Catch reports

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    19 hours ago, JonC said:

    Using your system that would be 21kg 2 ounces and half a quarter of a dram. 

    In fairness to Mike, I will tell the boy at work to go and cut me a bit of 4x2 @ 1660 long. 

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    Pb Tope

    in Catch reports

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    So went out yesterday at 3.3. Am to fish the Kentish knock for bass, had a run on my fist cast which I missed and then managed 1 dogfish in 4 hours before we called it a day. 
     Today though I was out on a tope trip on a charter boat and caught this 47lb tope. Absolutely buzzing.

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    Penn mags

    in Boat angling techniques, baits and tackle

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    On 6/15/2023 at 5:14 PM, JonC said:

    Yeah I wouldn’t go on a tope hunt but for summer bass fishing they will be fine. 
    I used one of the penn fathoms on Sunday, very smooth but it seemed really wide and the handle seemed to be  a long way round. Guess it’s just different to what I’m used to. 

    Which fathom was it ? 

    Penn mags

    in Boat angling techniques, baits and tackle

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    29 minutes ago, JonC said:

    I would think that they would be ok for lighter uptide/ boat casting. I have the 535s and they are very good reels. I think the penn 525s were a bit bigger than the Abu 6500 that were the other main rival in their day.

    That’s what I was thinking, maybe use them for bass and hounds in shallower water ?  they are a bit sturdier than the Abu 6500’s. 

    Penn mags

    in Boat angling techniques, baits and tackle

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    Evening gents

    ive got a pair of original penn 525 mag mk1’s that i used during my beech fishing days. Havnt used them in yonks. I have been toying with getting some Penn fathom 15 lever drags but Are these any good for fishing from the boat ? How would they compare to the fathoms ? They always seemed pretty robust to me.

     

    TIA 

    Tope

    in Catch reports

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    20 minutes ago, JonC said:

    I hope you wasn’t on my mark. 

     We were just about to anchor  up and I said to the skipper “hang on I think this is Jon’s mark” So he moved a couple  of hundred yards uptide and he thanked me for letting him know. 

    Tope

    in Catch reports

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    Out today for tope on the Galloper from Brightlingsea, apart from the big tope I lost after 15 minutes of a hard battle I managed about a dozen doggies. But on the boat the notable fish were 1 tope at 43lbs, 4 spurdogs from 14lb to 18lb and six hounds the biggest being 20lbs.

    Skipper was great, very helpful and knowledgable. 

    cracking weather, cracking day. 
     

     

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    Come on then... who's out at the weekend?

    in Boat angling techniques, baits and tackle

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    4 minutes ago, JonC said:

    We were fishing about half a mile away from him and when we packed up we went back on the same track as there are a few obstacles on the area to avoid. We were a good couple of hundred yards away and he came running out giving us shit🤣🤣

    Sounds like a lovely bloke. I know it isn’t easy running a charter boat but some of these skippers think they own the sea and that privateers shouldn’t be allowed past the creek mouth bouy. I’ll post up a report on how we get on. 

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