With a spare day in St Petersburg, I decided to embark on a fishing adventure. With $12 dollars for rental and bait i spent the day fishing off St Petersburg pier in the blistering heat! The morning proved to be very productive catching 8 fish (both red and mutton snapper pictured left) up to about 8 inches in length (10 would have made them dinner...) after some lunch i went in search of something bigger and hooked in to an enourmous Jack Cravalie (easily over 50 pounds!) after watching it swim past and dropping my shrimp on its head! unfortunatly my tackle wasnt quite up to the task and I was connected for about 4 seconds....but wat a 4 seconds! Saw loads of other fish being caught by locals who had the right tackle. no doubt about it, Florida fishing is second to none.....even better than Chi Lakes! bring on the Keys.....
With a spare day in St Petersburg, I decided to embark on a fishing adventure. With $12 dollars for rental and bait i spent the day fishing off St Petersburg pier in the blistering heat! The morning proved to be very productive catching 8 fish (both red and mutton snapper pictured left) up to about 8 inches in length (10 would have made them dinner...) after some lunch i went in search of something bigger and hooked in to an enourmous Jack Cravalie (easily over 50 pounds!) after watching it swim past and dropping my shrimp on its head! unfortunatly my tackle wasnt quite up to the task and I was connected for about 4 seconds....but wat a 4 seconds! Saw loads of other fish being caught by locals who had the right tackle. no doubt about it, Florida fishing is second to none.....even better than Chi Lakes! bring on the Keys.....
Hi Guys
ReplyDeleteRIGHT!!! NOW I AM VERY JEALOUS !!!!!
Fishing sounds amazing but Stu if your dad had been there we would have got the jack for sure :-)))
Snappers look good i hope you put them back to grow bigger ??
Now im looking forward to the fishing pictures from the keys??
Going boat fishing with steve marley saturday :-)
Keep safe you two bums !
stus dad
Hi lads
ReplyDeleteRIGHT, ONE OF YOU, MAKE SURE YOU CATCH SOMETHING HUGE FROM THE KEYS - No pressure - but if you do I may be on for an American holiday! (No crocodiles though)
Keep safe
stu's mum
Not the old fishermans tale stu.
ReplyDeleteSounds like you lads are having a whale of a time.
Seen your itinery for the rest of USA and CANADA.
Looks Awesome.
Stay Lucky