Throwback Thursday
Feb 13, 2020 22:01:06 #
This Drumfish was caught about 48 years ago up North in Delaware Bay. It took two adults, my dad and one of his friends, and myself, as a much younger boy, about 2 1/2 hours to get the fish into the boat. I can’t remember the exact weight, but I do remember that it weighed over 100 pounds.
Feb 13, 2020 22:05:55 #
Feb 13, 2020 22:46:56 #
Feb 14, 2020 07:29:07 #
Hey, that is a big black. Do you remember if you ate it? I'll bet it had over 50 lbs. of worms. They fish for those big things in the ICW between Aransas Pass and Port Aransas, TX. when they come in to spawn. People come down from all over the country to catch them but they let them all go because they are so wormy. You can't land those things with your ultra-lights.
Feb 14, 2020 10:11:50 #
flyguy wrote:
Hey, that is a big black. Do you remember if you ate it? I'll bet it had over 50 lbs. of worms. They fish for those big things in the ICW between Aransas Pass and Port Aransas, TX. when they come in to spawn. People come down from all over the country to catch them but they let them all go because they are so wormy. You can't land those things with your ultra-lights.
Got to fish there 1 time about 15 years ago.
Had a rig with a float and a slip sinker popping it with a shrimp on it had a lot of fun.
Feb 14, 2020 11:06:22 #
flyguy wrote:
Hey, that is a big black. Do you remember if you ate it? I'll bet it had over 50 lbs. of worms. They fish for those big things in the ICW between Aransas Pass and Port Aransas, TX. when they come in to spawn. People come down from all over the country to catch them but they let them all go because they are so wormy. You can't land those things with your ultra-lights.
I saw a mount of a red drum on the gulf coast fishing pier in Galveston yearrrs ago, I believe it was 90+lbs. Thats a great pic you have and the memory is even better I bet
Feb 14, 2020 11:31:00 #
I don’t remember my dad ever saying anything about it having worms, but we did eat it.
Feb 14, 2020 13:26:14 #
You mean worms in the flesh ( meat ) like tapeworms ? Any kid that got to be a part of bringing a fish that size home would definitely keep fishing. That is awesome. Did you use a 3 pound bass as bait :) ?
Feb 14, 2020 13:34:56 #
Feb 14, 2020 14:08:35 #
EasternOZ wrote:
Got to fish there 1 time about 15 years ago.
Had a rig with a float and a slip sinker popping it with a shrimp on it had a lot of fun.
Had a rig with a float and a slip sinker popping it with a shrimp on it had a lot of fun.
That is what we used to catch our fish yesterday, live shrimp under a popping cork. We were front drifting in a 25 MPH wind in the Laguna Madre in 1.2' of water. Do you know what front drifting is?
Feb 14, 2020 14:36:37 #
flyguy wrote:
That is what we used to catch our fish yesterday, live shrimp under a popping cork. We were front drifting in a 25 MPH wind in the Laguna Madre in 1.2' of water. Do you know what front drifting is?
No?
Feb 14, 2020 16:07:51 #
EasternOZ wrote:
No?
Front drifting is what you do when you are fishing shallow water, we were drifting in 1.2' -1.5' of water so that your bait reaches the fish before the boat scares goes over the fish and scares it. We were fishing in a 25 MPH blow, so we had to throw our poping cork & live shrimp with the wind, keep a tight line until the boat caught up with the bait, and then toss the bait out again. We had a windsock but didn't bother to bother to put it out. They can be a pain in the butt to use. You had to keep a tight line or you could not set the hook. It was a challenge but it worked. We did lose a lot of fish and miss a lot of hits but that's fishing.
Feb 14, 2020 16:15:08 #
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