What fish gives you the most trouble?
What fish gives you the most trouble?
Just wanted to ask what fish, you anglers have the hardest time with, in your whole fishing history. For me, I have cursed more Flounder than any other fish. I have lost them at the yak, in my hands, in my net, from pier decks, etc. My heart pumps for big Trout, but Flounder just get me cross-eyed sometimes.
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For me, it's a speckled trout. They have soft mouths and when I usually get a trout close enough to net, the hook has made a very large hole and sometimes, if there is just a little slack in the line, the hook comes out of the fish's mouth.....especially if it jumps at that time when I'm about to net it.
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Depends on what you call trouble. Skip Jacks have spooked more schools of reds for me than I can count. I've been throwing flies at reds when from out of nowhere a skip jack slams it and *poof* there goes every red in the immediate vicinity. Skips have also spooked reds my friends have been cast to. Perfect example was last week. I had two buddies casting to two separate schools of reds when a huge skip jack decided to eat my fly and shoot straight through the two schools my friends were stalking......I would consider THAT trouble.
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Well, upon further consideration, I'd have to say blacktip sharks are the biggest pain in the a$$ for me. They'll do just about everything to screw me up.
1. They'll eat a bait and immediately head offshore before you can get tight to them. This is why you miss so many of them on circle hooks.
2. They're so fast that even with 6.3:1 gears you'll be lucky to keep up with them as they're running and jumping before they break you off.
3. I put a lot of heat on a big fish in the beginning of the fight. And I've had big blacktips straighten out hooks and 100lb snap swivels!
4. Then you get one to the boat and then they really become a big pain in the butt to deal with.
I even had one nail the yak with his tail and knock a locked hatch cover off the boat and a sandal off my foot! They'll tear up tackle and gear more than any other species we can catch around here - with the possible exception of a poon.
1. They'll eat a bait and immediately head offshore before you can get tight to them. This is why you miss so many of them on circle hooks.
2. They're so fast that even with 6.3:1 gears you'll be lucky to keep up with them as they're running and jumping before they break you off.
3. I put a lot of heat on a big fish in the beginning of the fight. And I've had big blacktips straighten out hooks and 100lb snap swivels!
4. Then you get one to the boat and then they really become a big pain in the butt to deal with.
I even had one nail the yak with his tail and knock a locked hatch cover off the boat and a sandal off my foot! They'll tear up tackle and gear more than any other species we can catch around here - with the possible exception of a poon.
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trouble
1. Redfish can get a little spooky sometimes up shallow, but when you find those big schools they can give you hours of hard pulls. When you have one of those rubber lipped suckers hooked they usually wont throw the hook. You can never go wrong with a gold spoon
2 Trout can be very picky and winter time bites are sometimes very subtle. When they are feeding hard though I'd have to say they are my favorite to catch. The are pretty good at throwing a hook, even a face full of trebles on a topwater.
3 Flounder are masters of turning you into a catch and release fisherman
but as for catching them I've got a little spot for the fall run where catching limits in a few hours is like shooting fish in a barrel.
4. Never seen a snook here in my neck of the woods (matagorda bay system)
5. Sheephead have a hard time turning down a hermit crab cracked from his shell under a cork around the jetties or a live shrimp next to pier pilings.
6 black drum love a peeled dead shrimp or a cracked blue crab and are easy to find almost anywhere.
7. Sharks, I mean big ones 6' + are the hardest fish for me to land. I can hook several in a day surf fishing or from a boat but I break off about 60% of the time. anyone with tips on landing these big guys please post them on here sometime.
2 Trout can be very picky and winter time bites are sometimes very subtle. When they are feeding hard though I'd have to say they are my favorite to catch. The are pretty good at throwing a hook, even a face full of trebles on a topwater.
3 Flounder are masters of turning you into a catch and release fisherman
but as for catching them I've got a little spot for the fall run where catching limits in a few hours is like shooting fish in a barrel.
4. Never seen a snook here in my neck of the woods (matagorda bay system)
5. Sheephead have a hard time turning down a hermit crab cracked from his shell under a cork around the jetties or a live shrimp next to pier pilings.
6 black drum love a peeled dead shrimp or a cracked blue crab and are easy to find almost anywhere.
7. Sharks, I mean big ones 6' + are the hardest fish for me to land. I can hook several in a day surf fishing or from a boat but I break off about 60% of the time. anyone with tips on landing these big guys please post them on here sometime.
Flounder is the fish that I catch least often, but that is because I usually catch one while fishing for reds. But trout have got me baffled. I just haven't figured out their habits yet. Sure, every now and then I can run into a school, or find them under the lights, but they elude me most of the time.
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Trout are the craftiest fighters, jumping splashing running, stalling, swimming straight at you, going between your legs and then there's that soft mouth. Whereas reds can bury you in the grass or break you off in the shell, they otherwise only have power to evade capture.
For these reasons, trout gives me the most "trouble" which, in my book, makes them the most fun and challenging to catch.
For these reasons, trout gives me the most "trouble" which, in my book, makes them the most fun and challenging to catch.