LgMouthGambler

If you fish with Martin and I, you wont have to worry about nothing, lol.

Post #321, lol.

Bwahahahaa. That's funny right there.

Leaving work around 530, and have to run to Dicks to get some lures for this weekend. Afterwards I will give you a call and see where you are at.

Holy crap! I was crying I was laughing soo hard. BRAVO! Martin!

Im gonna try to get a few hours of fishing in this afternoon. Got to give this new line a workout.

Its there, just looks like sand and gravel if you Google map it, lol.

Martin made me eat his Polish sausage........wait..........that came out wrong.

I have $3,000.00 worth of crap, and I cant catch a cold, lol.

Take 441 up to Loxahatchee rd, and go west till the end.

I would say to venture to Lox instead. I hear the reports that HP has too high of water, and that kills the fishing there. In Lox you can get into the flats for some seek and destroy fishing.

If you get a good quality reel, you will enjoy the experience much better. I have been fishing Shimano baitcasters since my first one when I was 10, so, 20 years I have been spoiled rotten, lol. You won't regret it, especially for frogging and heavy line applications.

Lou, you need to get one. The Buff is the best investment I ever made. When in the glades and it gets really muggy, just soak it in the water and put it back on.

I don't know, I guess Im just used to it. Even in the Fire Academy I was the only one not keeling over in full bunker gear in the hot sun. Just make sure you drink water. I guess I would rather sweat than end up with burnt skin. I will say that the moisture wicking fabric does help to keep me cool.

Its called being "ninja". You cant let them see you coming. I have now upgraded status with Fishouflage longsleeve moisture wicking shirt, and hat. So I am virtually invisible to the fish, lol.

Heat or not, Im still fishing. Long pants, long sleeves, Buff, and a hat. Heat? Aint nobody got time for that!

What are you talking about? Its easily gotten 2 degrees cooler!

A .45 ACP +P works pretty good when things get hairy.

By golly, I got it! Since apparently nobody answered my question, and Im assuming you have to have pics of the fish and length to count (even little dinks under 13"), Im noticing my 59" is deemed not worthy. So here is what I have come up with, and feel free to steal my invention to help protect the fish. Im gonna take the measuring tape and somehow affix the device to the side of either the front or middle beam of the boat. Since its only about 1-1 1/2" thick and about the circumference of a baseball, it wont take up any room that way. Then, I can just pull the tape up and out of the device and lock it down at a desired length. Measuring tape is metal, and mine is thick enough that if I pull out 2-3 feet it will still stand straight up even with a little bit of wind. Then I can just hold the fish up to the tape and take the picture. GENIOUS!

Yes its for minimum size for tourneys. Unless I have someone with me to take the pic, Im pretty much gonna have to hold the fish in one hand and ruler in the other, get the size, then take a pic. I could build another device, but that one cost me about $50 in materials and took many hours to construct. Its kind of big, so it stays on my friends boat because he has more room. To make one that would extend to 30" would be WAY too much room to take up on my boat. Keep in mind that I went by myself yesterday, with 6 rigs, a net, push pole, cooler, and my tackle bag. Still very minimal room. I was thinking of a way with something that stands up, like a yard stick or something, but again, room. I don't know. Maybe I can come up with something humane.

I will take good pics of fish that would actually get me in the number game for sure. I don't have carpet in my boat, so I cant do that, plus the carpet sucks the slime coat off the fish anyway. For tourneys I have a special board and measurer that eliminates the fish from harm, but its only good for 12", so that wont do me any good here. I have a few pics of the fish I caught yesterday, actually 2 pics for that matter. There was just nothing to get excited about.

You know, there is one thing that I am not sure on. Lets just say that the pics are taken of the fish after measuring them, does this count? The reason I ask is Im not about laying the fish on the ground in the grass, or, especially on the hot deck of my boat to take a picture of me measuring the fish. My reasoning for this is that it is not good for the fish as it compromises their protective slime coat and could cause potential damage to the fish. So what I have been doing is while lipping the fish, and after taking the hook out, I hold the tape measurer up to the fish and get the length, then hold the fish out (while lipped) and take a picture. If the rules are against this, than Im out. But so far I haven't caught any big ones, and I am at 59". I am keeping my lengths on a paper in my wallet to write them down in cas of any changes. The funny thing is I had the tape measurer pre set at 15" on the boat, and kept thinking "what if I catch something longer? I could easily extend the measurer when its already out while holding the fish". Serves me right, I didn't even catch something 15", lol.

Well, went this morning by myself. Caught a bunch of fish, nothing impressive. I got 2 that were 13", 1 that was 12", 1 at 11", and one at 10". I don't know how you guys take the pics with the fish and the ruler due to mine like to flop, and I'm just not that coordinated, lol. Anyway, most of my posts are on my phone, and unless I get something big, I'm not gonna bother with a pic, just a quick measure and toss. As a side note, I seen plenty of 4-6# range Bass, but they just didn't want to play. All my fish were schoolies chasing small shad balls. The award for the lure of the day goes to Gambler for the Flappin Shad.

Just spooled my Super Duty with some fresh XpS flouro and went and played with a Gambler craw for a bit. d**n near caught me 3 nice fish, however they were all Snakeheads.

Ya, thanks for reminding me, lol. Hopefully I find something big Sunday.