Check Out This Big Fish I Caught (1 Viewer)

[AquaNerd]

This is a 31" Speckled Trout (Cynoscion nebulosus) that I caught in Baffin Bay/Laguna Madre out of Corpus Christi in the end of June/beginning of July. I had it mounted and just got it back today.

 

[deepsea43]

wow nice i caught a 30 inch one last month at the beach on fresh dead shad on the bottom cut up ont the bottom it was awsome

 

[deepsea43]

what did you cetch it on?

 

[mr_surfer_Dude]

thas a nice size one, think my biggest was like 26inches, i usually go to the jettis and catch em.

 

[AquaNerd]

we were using finger mullet on a carolina rig setup. i also lost a huge red that broke my line and last year i caught a 27 3/4" trout all in the same spot...my little secret honey hole.

my dad's been fishing a lot longer than i have and has never caught anything near this big.

here's the site of our guide:
www.gofishbaffin.com

here's another link to some pics from our guides website.http://www.gofishbaffin.com/photo2.html...i'm in first, third, and last pics. my trout from last year is the first pic and my trout from this year is at the bottom.

 

[deepsea43]

ever go fishing for flounder in galveston anytime?

 

[AquaNerd]

i hardly fish down here. all my fishing gear stays at my parents house because i have absolutely no room for any other piece of equipment or anything like that.

but i know there are a lot of flounder runs out at seawolf park and around there.

 

[deepsea43]

just thought i would share i went down there last year on a company trip and hooked into a HUGE red fish and fought him for 20 minutes and then a 5 or 6 foot shark came up and bit it in half!! i was so mad.

 

[AquaNerd]

do a you-tube search and there's a video of a guy catching a pretty big tarpon and a huge hammerhead comes by, chases it around, and eats it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjWQNwv-GJ4

 

[dfowlks]

Brandon that's a nice speck. I just moved from Corpus and I prefer fishing there or Port A. I miss the Port A jetties. Your family lives in Corpus?

 

[AquaNerd]

Your family lives in Corpus?

nope, my dad knows a guy who does some guiding down in the baffin bay/laguna madre area and we go fishing there every year.

 

[wazzel]

That is huge. I would have ate it.

 

[AquaNerd]

That is huge. I would have ate it.

the guide we had only gave me two choices...release it or mount it. and i respect him completely for doing it. the reason for releasing it is due to the fact that is a huge, old female (sow). the older the females get the more eggs they lay (fecundity) during the spawning season. so larger females contribute a great deal more to the offspring of the next generation of trout. this is a lifetime fish, and if i catch another even remotely close to its size i'm releasing it, no doubt. i was so torn as to whether or not to keep it. the angler in me wanted it mounted, the conservationist in me wanted it released. the next large trout is going back.

 

[toefu]

good sized speck.

 

[wazzel]

That is huge. I would have ate it.

the guide we had only gave me two choices...release it or mount it. and i respect him completely for doing it. the reason for releasing it is due to the fact that is a huge, old female (sow). the older the females get the more eggs they lay (fecundity) during the spawning season. so larger females contribute a great deal more to the offspring of the next generation of trout. this is a lifetime fish, and if i catch another even remotely close to its size i'm releasing it, no doubt. i was so torn as to whether or not to keep it. the angler in me wanted it mounted, the conservationist in me wanted it released. the next large trout is going back.

I don't fish often so I keep every thing that is legal to keep.