Only In Florida

Went out this morning to try for a few specks & was in deeper water trolling toward the shore to find what depth the fish were holding. I came up on 6ft & my longest line out started bumping bottom then, wham a train on the other end, thought it was a moving log til' 4 of my 8 poles out became entangled at which point I just wanted to see what was on & behold a ray! Have caught one before cat fishing, but never tolling & this fella came armored with not just 1, but 2 barbs, as you can see in one of the photos, guess you just never know when fishin' Florida waters. Did manage a few specks as well, the 2 best a 13" & 12" released in 83 F temp at noon with the morning surface temp 81F.

The color on those specks is awesome....I'm glad somebody is out and about!!:fish Last fall I caught two 15" lady fish in Monroe.

Very Cool!

Wow crazy!!

Nice lookin specks :highfive

That sure beats all the flounder and gar I catch when I'm trolling for specks! The one's you caught look good for July.All this rain will probably kill the shrimping up this way but it will sure turn on the fishing.

I hate Stingrays!!

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Originally Posted by Speck Detector

Went out this morning to try for a few specks & was in deeper water trolling toward the shore to find what depth the fish were holding. I came up on 6ft & my longest line out started bumping bottom then, wham a train on the other end, thought it was a moving log til' 4 of my 8 poles out became entangled at which point I just wanted to see what was on & behold a ray! Have caught one before cat fishing, but never tolling & this fella came armored with not just 1, but 2 barbs, as you can see in one of the photos, guess you just never know when fishin' Florida waters. Did manage a few specks as well, the 2 best a 13" & 12" released in 83 F temp at noon with the morning surface temp 81F.

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A ray in fresh Water?

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Originally Posted by Crappiegirl1

A ray in fresh Water?

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Yep!! The Wekiva river is full of them. Especially the area where Katies was.

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Originally Posted by huntinslabs

Yep!! The Wekiva river is full of them. Especially the area where Katies was.

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I figured there was a story behind your 1st comment, hope nothing serious came of "Katies" encounter , although I would think rays make for easy target practice when learning to bow-fish:hatchet: And yes CG1, it was a fresh water lake along the St. John's river that I like to call a brine solution, the semi-salty waters pre-season's the specks you know:Rofl

The biologist at the Crescent slabfest a few years back said that all of St. Johns is at least 10% salt at all times. :dono

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Originally Posted by Speck Detector

I figured there was a story behind your 1st comment, hope nothing serious came of "Katies" encounter , although I would think rays make for easy target practice when learning to bow-fish:hatchet: And yes CG1, it was a fresh water lake along the St. John's river that I like to call a brine solution, the semi-salty waters pre-season's the specks you know:Rofl

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No problems on that side. My issue with them is when soaking a chunk waiting on a redfish at night and them things take it or them swimming right in front your boat while flounder gigging, clouding up the water.

I saw 2 snook at Blue Springs a few years back while visiting the Manatees. They were just inside the clear water out near the river. I asked all these questions then myself.