A big old red crappie with teeth

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10-24-2010, 06:20 PM
SteveJ

A big old red crappie with teeth

Went out from Fla/bama on a head boat snapper fishing with 9 paying customers. @ each is the limit and once the boat caught 18 keeper snapper the capt said it's over, going back in. Don't know about anyone else but I caught 3 of the 18 and my step-son caught one but we did get some nice ones. My best before had been 12 lbs and this one was bigger don't know how much but it was bigger.
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The mate cleaned most of the folks fish but my step-son wanted to clean ours and I found out why, this is the skeleton afterwards grilled with cajun spices and butter and it was so good.
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10-24-2010, 06:26 PM
EmptyStringer

Yum...
10-24-2010, 06:45 PM
feelay

Never heard of them quitting after a limit. We always just target a different species til time runs out.
10-24-2010, 07:58 PM
SteveJ

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Originally Posted by feelay

Never heard of them quitting after a limit. We always just target a different species til time runs out.

Trouble is that now in Ala there are so many snapper it is very hard to catch anything else plus it was half a day trip and the time was almost up anyway. The 1st 5 places he stopped at we only had 1 keeper. The last place he stopped we caught the rest. That's the way he did it.
10-24-2010, 08:15 PM
"G"

That looks like a good one Steve
10-24-2010, 08:38 PM
tritonman

love me some grilled snapper...YUMMY!!!
10-24-2010, 08:48 PM
ScottV

Now that you've got that out of your system, are you ready for some real fishing?
10-24-2010, 09:01 PM
SteveJ

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Originally Posted by ScottV

Now that you've got that out of your system, are you ready for some real fishing?

Yep as soon as we move this wind out of the way. Did you string the Power Pro? When you going to put your big one on here?
10-25-2010, 06:12 AM
Slabo

Steve, I was up in Alaska a few years ago and our guide made his son jump in the river and get the backbones from the King Salmon that he had just cleaned. Which we all thought he was crazy at the time because the water was a brisk 40 degrees and they were just backbones ! Then he put them on the grill and cooked them with some cajun seasoning and every day after that we threatened to throw his son in the river if he threw away the backbones !!! That there is some fine eating !!!!!
10-25-2010, 06:15 AM
gabowman

That's a nice sized snapper. I bet they ate good too.;) Congrats on the catch.:)
10-25-2010, 07:32 AM
DonDon

Heard the Snapper are everyone in the gulf now and you can't get down to get the gags and such without a Snapper getting the bait first
10-25-2010, 07:50 AM
ScottV

I wonder why they have a 2 fish limit on red snapper.
10-25-2010, 07:59 AM
beagle man

so 9 people go fishing 18 fish limit, one or two dont catch any fish and who ever catches the most who ever don't catch just has to sit and watch and say well I paid my money to watch some one else catch man that would be hard to take, I bet it cost a bunch to go fishing in the big water. do not think I would like that, I know I would be the one not catching. hence not eating the snapper.
10-25-2010, 08:33 AM
yikess

Yesn sir Mr. Beagle that would suck unless everyone got to take 2 fish home regardless of who caught it.
10-25-2010, 09:25 AM
SteveJ

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Originally Posted by yikess

Yesn sir Mr. Beagle that would suck unless everyone got to take 2 fish home regardless of who caught it.

Thats how it works. We keep ours on a stringer and it just so happened that I caught 3 and Jerry caught 1 by the time we left. If we had caught more than our limit of 4 the rest would have went into the common pot, at least that was what I was told.
10-25-2010, 09:30 AM
SteveJ

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Originally Posted by DonDon

Heard the Snapper are everyone in the gulf now and you can't get down to get the gags and such without a Snapper getting the bait first

Thats what I have been hearing too and it sure seemed that way Friday, only 1 grouper caught. When you dropped you bait you would get bite almost as soon as you got to the right depth. Normally the bigger snapper stay higher in the water column and the small one stay on the bottom but not Friday, the big ones were on the bottom also.
10-25-2010, 09:34 AM
SteveJ

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Originally Posted by ScottV

I wonder why they have a 2 fish limit on red snapper.

Ala has a great reef program which Fla and MS don't have and when they do a study on the snapper they include all the gulf states and while Ala has an over load the other states don't so the 2 fish limit. At least that is what I heard. It has hurt all the charter boats because no one really wants to pay the money for just 2 fish. But it sure has increased the size caught.