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Salt Water Shore Fishing Reports / Quick low tide session

« on: March 10, 2024, 07:15:47 PM »

Had the opportunity to hit the midday low tide for a reef walk on Saturday for a couple hours. Water was still pretty dingy. Not much going on, but did see a 10+ pod of dolphins cavorting near me for about 10 mins. They came in almost within casting distance. I only got one bump, but it ended up being the right kind and my first legal Hali of the year.

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General Board / Re: Tom's Surgery

« on: March 08, 2024, 10:32:05 AM »

Lol Pics or it didn’t happen.

Just kidding, Don’t really wanna see Toms hairy budda belly

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General Board / Re: My East Coast Friends are Also Funny

« on: February 23, 2024, 07:21:49 PM »

Surprised you didn’t get a bunch of bananas. 

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Tackle Talk / Re: Leader Material

« on: January 30, 2024, 06:36:30 PM »

I too love the red label for surf fishing and wish they made 25lb or 30lb in the filler spools. I use Seaguar STS flouro for 25 or 30 when I want something a bit heavier than the 20lb red label.

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General Board / Re: Getting Healthy

« on: January 06, 2024, 09:37:28 PM »

I need to start hitting the gym myself. I’ve lost a little over 40lbs since my heart attack but have hit a plateau. I’d like to lose more but think I need to increase some muscle mass in order to keep progressing.

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Food & Recipe / Re: Broiled Lightning Trout

« on: January 06, 2024, 08:31:44 PM »

I’m sure different hatchery’s prob have some different formulas for the food pellets that may have the proper nutrients that trout metabolize into making the red/orange flesh. I’ve only ever fished trout back in my old home state of PA, but all fresh stockers back then always had white meat. Would occasionally find the random holdover trout hanging with the fresh stockers and these would have the normal orange/red meat. This was mostly stream fishing vs pond/lake fishing.

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Food & Recipe / Re: Broiled Lightning Trout

« on: January 05, 2024, 07:36:29 PM »

If they have red meat, means he’s been living in the wild for a long time. The red comes from eating a natural diet. The pellets they feed stocker trout doesn’t have the correct organic material for the trout to metabolize and make its meat orange to red. The pellets are designed to maximize growth etc.

Looks delicious btw. That’s gonna make a cool mount.

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Freshwater Shore Fishing Reports / Re: Yellow Fish to End the Year and Golden Fish to start the New One (1/2024)

« on: January 04, 2024, 06:35:22 PM »

That is a male Lightning Trout. Brief summary of what a lightning trout is - “Lightning Trout are a genetic variation of a Rainbow Trout. Their genetic mutation changes the traditional grayish trout color to a yellowish-golden one (hence “lightning”). Mt. Lassen Hatchery in California is the sole supplier of Lightning Trout and often supplies them to Southern California reservoirs and East Bay lakes.”

I know in PA they have a similar variation they also stock called a Palomino Trout.

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Freshwater Shore Fishing Reports / Re: Yellow Fish to End the Year and Golden Fish to start the New One (1/2024)

« on: January 03, 2024, 06:17:23 PM »

Ended the year with a banana fish and started the new year with a banana fish. You ain’t gonna catch a damn thing on your boat this year. Poor sucker. 

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Freshwater Shore Fishing Reports / Re: Yellow pu$$y Cat (12/30)

« on: December 31, 2023, 12:40:29 AM »

Nice leucistic kitty fish.

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General Board / Re: Merry Chistmas and a Happy New Year to All

« on: December 25, 2023, 08:58:54 AM »

Merry Christmas Everyone.

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Salt Water Shore Fishing Reports / Re: Striper Delusions Continued 12/20

« on: December 22, 2023, 01:26:09 PM »

Curious what lure you’re using there.

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Salt Water Shore Fishing Reports / Re: Rain's Got Me Excited 12/19

« on: December 20, 2023, 12:43:46 PM »

Striper, Perch.......Same thing 

Yep them perchy’s have stripes. 

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Salt Water Shore Fishing Reports / Re: Rain's Got Me Excited 12/19

« on: December 19, 2023, 01:36:26 PM »

Stripers always feel like a perch when they bite. 

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Fishing Talk / Re: Fishing plans over the holidays?

« on: December 18, 2023, 08:10:56 AM »

You have the bass and butts dialed in from/for shore! 

How many legal butts have you caught this year?  It seems like a dozen or more.

Haven’t kept count, but I feel like I’ve gotten quite a few compared to the amount of time I was able to get out to fish this year. Between weekend weather, the heart attack and moving, I’ve only been able to get out about 1/2 as much this year as I normally would have. Just thankful that I’m still able to fish at all.