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Mudbug and his peac0ck bass

forgot the fish

kinda looks like a red and grouper mated uh.

Man i miss fishing for Peacock bass in the florida canals..

They are from Venezuela just they dont grow as big, Went in Venezuela last year to fish for them and they grow upwards of 36 pounds there.

Pulling in a 8 pound Peacock is like pulling in 10 regular bass at once, so you can imagine fighting the big ones in Venezuela, no light tackle there..

here ya go 15 pounds 3 oz :)

(http://www.island-designs.com/pictures/peacckbass.jpg)

Not my fish but 25.6 pounds :)

(http://www.bigfinadventures.com/Guri25.6pounds.jpg)

and if anyones interested in fishing for these monsters on there vacation :)

Here is a small vid commercial of the place i stayed at which comes with fishing trips.

http://www.westsideadventures.com/videos/amazon30.mpeg

you can catch snapper about that size in the cooling canels behind turkey point power plant. huge snapper and shimp too this time of year.You can take them home and turn off the lights and they GLOW too. Very cool  ;D just kidding, Great peacocks pics

here is some good fishing from St Augustine

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here is another from a off shore charter

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man o man you sure can fish.........or your awful good with photo shop ;D

here is a lil one ;D

another mudbug peac0ck bass

Ok, ok, I'm not showing off my fish.... but these bugs were in the water, and the fish was a casualty of war...

Here are some fish pictures

Check out my fishing page,, click the link
http://www.citicom.com/~cbandl/fishing/index.html

Here is one of the biggest snook i have ever caught
(http://www.citicom.com/~cbandl/fishing/39_snook_06_14_03.jpg)

Sorry to burst your bubble dude but thats a Crappy/Perch not a Peakok bass :)  spelled wrong for word filter.

Nice Snook by the way, you can also catch them in the fresh water canals during summer when they come in with the tarpon to breed. look under overpasses, usually tons of huge ones like that all together.

Snook one of the smartest fish out there, they will find anything to go around to get the line cut.  Great fighters as well but give up soon after.

151 dolphin, 12 mutton snapper,an a shark out of miami

iam a avid fisherman why would you take 151 dolphin (babies)
have fished florida waters for over 40 years why the stocks are so depleted is because people taking 151 dolphin not to leave any for their sons daughters and grand kids. did you eat all the dolphin or donate them to a charity?

lol I no what you mean on that one- thats alot of schoolys

and why kill the shark unless you are eating it?

true...posted the wrong pic, and now I can't find the right one... my bad....

Believe me,151 dolphin wouldn't even make a dent in a 1/4 mile radius of the ocean. Deep sea boats catch them by the thousands via nets and sell them to restaurants and have done this for years as well as generations of there familes. If you catch that many and give them away to freinds and family to eat than i say more power to you. On the other hand if you catch that many and eat a few and let the majority rot than thats pretty stupid. Did you catch them all with a rod and reel with light tackle? That would be a dream day of fishing. I'm jealous.

Have you fished South Fl off shore at all? Used to be that you could catch bigger fish and more years ago, but due to overkill, and keeping undersize fish, stocks are definatly depleted. Any fishing magazine can tell you that. I can only speak for myself, but I only keep what I will eat in a reasonable time, and if my friends want fish, go fishing. Just because you can catch them all, why not leave some behind?

Budman dont let it get to you. Hate to said it, if he didnt do it the next guy will. thats how it is now a days. We know that not Sportfishing! taking  schoolies to get a fish stick of a fillet. All I can said is next time try to let a whole ballyhoo dirft past the schoolies and you may catch some thing to be proud of. That where the big are, not the babies around your boat.

we were commercial fishing all of it was sold

  I grew up in Hollywood and worked in Miami and most of my family is still in Hollywood. I lived in a house on the water off of Griffin Rd behind Fantasy lounge and Lou's bait and tackle. I remember rigging up triple hooked ballyhoo numerous weekends working at Lou's when i was 12 and 13 years old. I fished those canals,the intercoastal from Dania to Miami,out thru Port everglades miles out and back in Miami inlet,so to answer your question,yes i have fished South Florida waters.What magazines say that individual anglers are responsible for this so called fish shortage? I still insist that 151 dolphin do not put a dent in sport fising. You may have a point if your'e fishing for snook or certain inlet sport fish that live in back water coves or channels that are fished regularly in those same spots but to say 151 dolphin from the OCEAN take away from our kids fishing? I cant buy it. No disrespect just my 2 cents. I personally would not have kept 151 dolphin,but only because i wouldn't want to have to haul,deliver,clean or eat that many,but what a fun time catching them it would be.

A morning in the keys

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Hope your not proud of the 151 dolfin catch, i would not be, down here its illegal to catch such small dolfins.  If you ask me they dont even look old or big enough to have had any  amount of time to reproduce properly, so yes that does put a big dent all by itself into the dolfin population.


Commercial or not I would be ashamed and would feel rather sh!tty killing such a large amount of VERY SMALL dolfins.

But that's what it is all about...Me Me Me ...I can't be causing damage cuz what can one fisherman do? tThere are a thousand more like that here, and they don't realize the impact of juvenile fish being taken out before they have a chance to do nature's calling. Further depleting the stock. After all, how can just one fisherman be doing damage when commercial fisherman catch so many more? Well, if they do it why can't I?  Me Me Me....

Here is a worthwhile Fight/Catch.

This is from my uncles charter in St. Maarten.

(http://www.rudysdeepseafishing.com/deepseafishing-catch-photos/images/019_17_jpg.jpg)

(http://www.rudysdeepseafishing.com/deepseafishing-catch-photos/images/018_16_jpg.jpg)

(http://www.rudysdeepseafishing.com/deepseafishing-catch-photos/images/010_8_jpg.jpg)

(http://www.rudysdeepseafishing.com/deepseafishing-catch-photos/images/005_3_jpg.jpg)

And thats the average size in the entire caribbean, why? Limits on Quantity and Minimum Weight and believe me there are TONS of Japanese Trollers trolling here and docked here and they abide by the rules as well, so dont blame it on Commercial boats blame it on your State fishing laws.

I mean jesus christmas man, here i am scowering the picture for this "SHARK!!!" and low and behold i finally find the dang thing in his right hand....

Must be some stupid dock with no controls to allow such a thing.

I know there are rules in florida, used to live there, but if this is the legal sizes i'm 100% happy you get to what you get, enjoy it you wount run accross anything much bigger anytime soon.

Hey Budman and Dierwolf, i admit when i am wrong and truthfully i never even thought about the reproducing issue. You have enlightened me. That and seeing the pics of the big dolphin really drove your point home. Wish i had some pictures of some of the tarpon,snook and sheeps head i caught off of griffin rd when i was younger. But with no pictures i guess there just fish stories.LOL. Hope to meet you guys at the rodman ride. In a strange way i miss hollywood.I would like to B.S  about some old landmarks. See ya.

Hey, I have plenty of those stories too... ;D hopefully I can still make Rodman, and catch ya there..

didn't u break the quad that wasnt yers that u ride?

she gonna let u ride it still?

:D

Not only did I break the quad I ride that ain't mine that she lets me use, I broke the truck that ain't mine that she MAKES me drive when the bikes are being towed, and paid for the ticket for the trailer that I DO own, but wasn't towing when it was ticketed, but I paid for half the bike that I don't ride, unless the child that's not mine has to rest the throttle thumb that IS his gets tired. (whew)......If I get the bike that's not mine fixed and have the funds once again, I'll be there...

woah...thats deep!

Hey Budman......I'll teach how to do some fishing!!!  LOL  Nice pics!!  Been a couple months since we been mudding cause of the hurricanes, wanted to let you know BamBam and I will be going out to l-cross the 21-23 of Jan., miss everyone!!  Hope to see the gang out there!!!!!  Ride on!!

everyone is gonna be up in OCala that weekend! u ought to head up that way!

Love to budman, but have a big group from our neighborhood going out to l-cross, first time for a few!  Thank goodness there is always a next time!!!  You guys have fun and keep me updated on your riding trips if you want two extra to tag along.  My personal e-mail is under my profile!!  Until then, ride on Budman!!!!! 8)

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wtf is that? a swimming head?

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Where the hell did those pics come from?? Bring em to Rodman for an old fashioned fish fry... ;D

Here's one of about 4 little fish we caught in Englewood this past summer.

Is that Stump pass behind you?

A bnuddy of mine sent them to me. Thosw are just a few of the pics that I have.
Those are fish that were found after the Tsunami.

Yes, that's Stump Pass.  That's my father in-laws friend.  I don't have pics of my fish on this computer.  

The deepest place in the ocean — the Mariana Trench, The trench bottom lies 6.8 miles below the sea's surface — farther below sea level than Mount Everest is above sea level. Water pressure there is over a thousand times greater than at sea level.       Remind me never to go deep sea diving :-X

Do you think I could get this at Red Lobster?

I love Stump pass and all of the flats around there in the intercoastal.
Some of the best Tarpon fishing in the world there.

That is called a black dragon fish.
Where did you get the info that you posted? I'd like to research these fish.

Do a google search on The Mariana Trench or hit this link http://www.lifesci.ucsb.edu/~biolum/organism/dragon.html

My first Sailfish.

So u are the reason there is no big dolphin out there! nice catch!

Here's some grouper we got 125 miles out of John's Pass a few years back. That big one almost pulled the guy off the front of the boat. Even with an electric reel, he had to pull the line into the reel with his hand. Broke 50# test line like thread, went to 100# test and started pulling them in, slowly.

Here's the awsome boat we went out in. 38' long, twin turbo Yanmars, bravo three outdrives. Cruised 38 knots, very smooth ride.

My little 9lb Large Mouth... Made a whole water seen on my plant shelf

2nd one

Here's the largest snook I have landed. 24# after being on ice 6 hrs. Brfore they outlawed them that big. Got it on 20# test line also, what a fight.

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my lil bud's first

buddy holdin my fish at teneroc

Some BIG fish!

You must be board. What did you do that for?

Bored=Nothing to do
Board=Something you use as a base for something or used as a wall type structure.
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Im trying to make a point. Some of these kids need to be dealt with honestly. And then the moderation is slacking at times. No offense to you we have talked about this in person. You have wanted adds in forsale, forsale adds in open and then you have all these post whores. Spamming is in the rules when you sign up. Bringing up old posts is spamming, posting constantly with no value to the post is spamming. Some of these kids need to be banned or dealt with. I would honestly like to become a moderator not to "ban" every lil fugger i dont like but to actually edit posts and delete hijacking. This site is being over run and ran right into the ground and thats not the atvfl i knew when erbilibuc was around.

Awsome catch guys ;D