tallydude

Beautiful fish! Wow!

I've always called them spoonbill. You know, their eggs are highly prized as caviar.

Baitmonkey, your property is yours to do with what you please. However, if you're killing any animal with some reckless sense of personal fishery management, I think you're wrong to do so. If you're relocating the animals or eating them, that's another story altogether. Lastly, I don't have a problem with the use of scripture. What I have a problem with is people using it to justify their own agendas.

Bud, you fish Ky and Barkley Lakes? I was born and raised in Murray! My family still lives in Panorama Shores right on Blood River.

Also, here is an article from www.in-fisherman.com that you may find useful. http://www.in-fisherman.com/magazine/exclusives/if0503_SpringCrappie/index.html

They absolutely go shallow. You can find them in as little as a foot or two of water. They will typically come shallow when spawning and you can find them relating to shallow cover. I have always had luck with dense weedlines and bruch thickets in this situation. The crappie have a place that they feel safe and can also ambush any passing prey.

That is a fat freaking fish! Congratulations to your friends!

Congratulations!!! That is a great fish! Now, go get me a bigger one!

Yeah, I'd LOVE to catch smallmouths but they just don't live down here in Florida.

Sport? Are you that challenged? If you are having trouble, maybe start with somthing sleeping and move up to somthing as quick and wiley as a turtle. Thank you, LBH, for bringing some perspective to all this nonsense. How is that sporting? Are you guys even eating the turtles you kill? For a website and a sport that pledges itself to wildlife conservation, I'm seeing alot of stupid posts on this topic.

Preach it brother! to follow up on that-Genesis 9:2 "The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth and upon every bird of the heavens, upon everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea. Into your hand they are delivered. 9:3 Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything." Interesting. I didn't know that the Jews before the common era (B.C.E.) were masters in North American fisheries and wildlife management.

That's too funny. I was having this exact argument with a friend of mine Wednesday night. ;D

FC, that is just a beautiful fish. I'm happy just looking at her.

1983 Chevy S-10. SWB, V-6, manual transmission. Got it the summer I turned 16, in 1993. Bought it from my uncle, for about 1200 bucks. Being my first car, I beat the crap out of it by not knowing to check and change the oil and just being an idiot. I sold it in 2000 after I had moved to Florida. I tell you, sometimes I still miss that thing.

You guys saw this a week ago, but here she is again on this thread, too.

Thank you! Finally! An ethical bone in the crowd. I just noticed on the side of our lake where we put the boat in, a huge dropping of some kind. Was confused as to the size and what may have left it. A week later, after some sun and a brief rain, I pulled up and noticed it was definately snapper poop. The scat was made of of total craw shells. Oranged now by the sun, it was clearly evident. We have huge snappers in our lake. Some are the size of sewer caps! Just for the record, our lake has what I would evaluate as the best fish population in RI. DON"T KILL ANIMALS JUST BECAUSE YOU ARE IGNORANT OF A BALANCED ECOSYSTEM!!!! > > > > LBH, I couldn't agree with you more. Do you guys really believe that turtles have that much of an adverse effect on the fish population? If so, I'm surprised you're not taking shotguns to the eagle and osprey population as well. I mean, they eat fish too. Why not go ahead and get rid of them? A balanced ecosysytem is a good ecosystem.

Yup, I let her go. I know where she swims, though, so who knows? Maybe I'll get her again one day.

Um, I live in West Palm Beach, Florida. I am a dude. 8-)

Are you certain? It seems too dark and large to be a Mayan Cichlid. I also think it's a cichlid of some sort, but it seems too big for the species.

I don't know anything about the area up there, but welcome to the site!

I went to the Florida Department of Fish and Wildlife's webpage, where they have a list and pictures of all native and nonnative fish in the state. No luck. Our mystery fish is still not there. I am going to email some universities tomorrow and see if they can help me.

I caught this today at my buddy Mark's. It fought well and had good size, but I have no idea what it is. Any of you icthyologists have an idea?

You can find them in the canals and small lakes in the extrmeme southern end of Palm Beach County, as well as Broward and Dade Counties. My understanding is that the fish are very climate sensitive. The reason they can live in these areas and not other similar climate areas, I believe, is due to the fact that the water in these counties is shallow and the temperature remains fairly consistent year round.

Dude, they are EVERYWHERE down here. At first I didn't like them, but that was before I caught one. They put up a fantastic fight (similar to a bluegill, only bigger and stronger). I've never eaten one, but I understand they're delicious.

I caught this fish about and hour and a half after I caught my personal best today. It's not the biggest one I've ever caught, but I took some pics anyway. The weirdest thing was that she hit a big spinnerbait (see pics).