My other hobby
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My other hobby
I like to go fishing. Today was one of the better trips. Almost got the gulf coastal inshore grand slam. Caught a lot of Speckle Trout, some white trout, and a couple of flounder. Only thing I missed was a redfish.
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Re: My other hobby
Great way to spend some time and I do a bit when I get the chance.
Most successful fishing I ever did (apart from when I was a deck hand on a fishing boat) was from a high bluff over the Turon River (NSW) using military .30/06 from an M17.
Most successful fishing I ever did (apart from when I was a deck hand on a fishing boat) was from a high bluff over the Turon River (NSW) using military .30/06 from an M17.
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Re: My other hobby
Now why doesn't that surprise meAughnanure wrote:Great way to spend some time and I do a bit when I get the chance.
Most successful fishing I ever did (apart from when I was a deck hand on a fishing boat) was from a high bluff over the Turon River (NSW) using military .30/06 from an M17.
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Re: My other hobby
My old man used to tell stories of fishing for mullet with bread and a .22 as a kid.
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Re: My other hobby
On the Alabama coast cast nets or gill nets are the way to catch mullet. However, when I was a teenager my father got this idea from some acquaintence of his. I had a 12 foot skiff with about a 20 horse outboard moter on it that I bought with money saved up working part time in a grocery store....Johnson moter as a matter of fact. The idea was, at night, to take a seine net and hold it up fore and aft in the boat and take a white gas flounder light at each end and get in and run the boat through schools of bay mullet. The theory was that the mullet would jump and either blinded by the light, or attracted to the light, jump into the boat. The net was to keep them from jumping over the boat.
Well one summer fifty odd years ago I tried it out. And....... the fish jumped just fine. They were smart enough not to jump into the boat though. Even to this day I wonder if maybe I was doing something wrong. Maybe not aiming the lights right. Or turning too fast. Or going too fast. Or....whatever.
Well one summer fifty odd years ago I tried it out. And....... the fish jumped just fine. They were smart enough not to jump into the boat though. Even to this day I wonder if maybe I was doing something wrong. Maybe not aiming the lights right. Or turning too fast. Or going too fast. Or....whatever.