One quick story from today

I went out for just a little to look at the bridge trying to get better use to my 1197 and the new software. Heck I didn't use it enough last year to get good with it as it was. I mean very little time on the water and most of that was fishing and not looking and learning.

Anyway I went there and after on the way back home I decided to just pull a Roadrunner a little. Just got started and kind of still getting settled in and wham, the Roadrunner stopped and my rod was bending like crazy. First I thought hung up, of course right after I set the hook, LOL. Starter to swing around as the wind was kind of blowing and realized that is was a fish so pulled really hard and then harder. All the while thinking is this really a fish? The heck yes it is and I double over that 10' pole way more than normal for sure. Got that ting up so I could see it and then netted this one big drum. What a let down, but I kind of had my suspicions since it was really hugging the bottom. Anyway probably a 6-7 pound drum, but at least it was exciting for a while as I was by my self so no help to call to.

Have a good night guys,

Skip

Nice catch anyway and a good get your blood pumping day. I hear a lot about those drum, can't you eat them?

freshwater drum otherwise known as sheephead ? When hot-n -tots were all the rage in the western basin of Lake Erie. My fishing chum talked me into buying a dozen of these storm lures and off to sandusky we went for a whole weekend.

It was about a 2 1/2 hour drive up there and all I heard was how great these lures were and how all you got was walleyes on it. Needless to say my first fish on said lures was about a 12 lb sheephead. To be fair though we did KILL the walleyes that entire weekend. That was the only sheephead I ever got on that lure and he were a monster of a sheepy.

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Originally Posted by fish_4_all

Nice catch anyway and a good get your blood pumping day. I hear a lot about those drum, can't you eat them?

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Ifyou want to try it without all the mess of catching and cleaning one, just soak a cotton ball in fish oil overnight and then try to eat it.:rolleyes:

Skip at least the story didn't end "....but the big one got away". It's always nice to test your skills and tackle that way now and then.
"gene"

What we call a sheepshead down here is a salt water fish with wide bars much like want we call a butterfly drum which are great eating. Sheepshead I have caught and they are called that because of their teeth. Black bars over a silver side fish. This was what we down here call a freshwater drum and pretty much all gray. Some people do eat a sheepshead like we have in salt water and they are not all bad. I just know this thing has other names, but not sure which one it is. It did have enough teeth that stopped me from lipping him, but not like a sheepshead.

Good grief I just did a search on fresh water drum and can't believe it has so many names and I guess basically all the same. Even your sheepshead name is in there, but our sheepshead is way different. Only mine was more gray than gold.
Freshwater drum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Here is a picture of our sheepshead...
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Skip

ive caught a few sheeps head in NC. around the pier pilings

Yeah PBUG that is where you find them a lot. They will get around that stuff any place they can eat the barnacles off them I think. Their teeth look just like a sheep's.

Skip

and my goodness do they fight...

I was gonna say,that looks like a fun fish to catch.

Yeah the darn thing turn that wide side to you and the pull is on. Where red fish in the shallow bays just run like crazy. Every once in a while a big school of jacks would come through and man they get big and are so tough and wide too. Was out with a fried one day and a school of jacks came right by us and we both just pitched our spoons into them. Well he got one I didn't (glad later) and he was using a really short rod he liked a lot and one of the really old cardinal 3 spinning reels. Well it was 27 pounds and took us about an hour running after him to land that thing. His drag was disintegrated and the reel was done.

Now that fish can pull your arms off.

Skip

lol but i bet it was so fun

I'm always amazed at the local names for fish..

Skip, I'm only about a 2 hr. drive from you and around here they call that a "gaspergoo". Growing up on Ky. Lake we called up "white perch".. White Perch in east Texas is a crappie...lol

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Originally Posted by skiptomylu

I went out for just a little to look at the bridge trying to get better use to my 1197 and the new software. Heck I didn't use it enough last year to get good with it as it was. I mean very little time on the water and most of that was fishing and not looking and learning.


Skip

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Did we find anything interesting at the bridge with the 455/800 ?

I didn't get to go to the bridge today. I did try to adjust some of it, but can't seem to find the way to turn of the Enhanced. I went for a quick ride with the wife and we didn't get back early enough for her to put up with me going over to the bridge even though it is not but a mile away. I do hope to look at the bridge tomorrow as one of my neighbors wants to go see what the Side scan shows, but the bridge is for me, LOL! I will go when I need break from tying as I don't want to fall too far behind.

I didn't think my picture was all that good, but I am still trying to find the right settings for me here. I was in a place not good for viewing anyway.

Sure appreciate your help and now if I can just get that Enhanced turned off, but not sure it's possible as I didn't see an off on it other than on sharpness. I guess that I am still a bit foggy on this thing.

Skip