Johnsfolly

Lived in FL for six years. We would regularly smirk at folks swimming in Dec/Jan. We didn't go in the ocean until it got to 80 deg which was about June. If you think about it kids will always swim even in cold water. Our kids would often some out after their lips were blue and they couldn't stop shivering🙄.

Lots of variety in those warmouth. Pretty cool to see them all.

Nice fat one Pete!

I got skunked on a pike trip in NJ on the 7th due to very snow melt and flooded waters. I have already missed two spawning runs for Silvery minnows and yellow perch. So it must be spring😉. It is starting to feel like spring here in MD. Just in case they move up the rivers early this year, I will have to try for shad pretty soon. @BilletHead and @Mrs. BilletHead will likely be finding morels pretty soon once they get off the river catching whites. The vernal equinox reminds me when my wife and daughter visited the chamber tomb in Newgrange just south of Dublin. They do an equinox simulation to show how the light would enter the tomb on this day. That was pretty cool. Has anyone ever tried to stand eggs on end during the equinox? We set up probably half a dozen one year back in Columbia. After reading this article maybe one can't do that anymore. Earth’s rotation is changing at a speed not seen in 3.6 million years I hope that all you OAF guys and girls have a great day regardless. Go catch some fish! (post photos if you do😉)

Nice Smallie Jeff and agree that the first one is possibly a mean mouth! I'm hoping to catch a CA halibut or spotted sand bass on a ned rig next week😉. I'll post photos (for @snagged in outlet 3) if I do😁

Nice bass Pete!

Congrats! Looks like they are full of eggs, shad or both!😉

It is a juvenile french grunt.

I use 2# and 4# for trout, panfish, and other small species fishing. I will use 6# for leaders tied to my braid main line for bigger baits like jerkbaits. I like using that line.

I'm leaning towards a hairy blenny. If you post on INAT I would suggest just id to genus, Labrisomus sp. and comment that it might be a hairy blenny.

Very cool catch! That's one of my targets when I can get back down that way. Also the jaguar guapote and the black acara. I still need to catch any snook, but would like to try for at least two or three of the FL species.

It is either a hairy blenny or a masquerader hairy blenny which are difficult to differentiate. Need to look at it more to see if the oscellus on the gill plates has a complete outline and/or if there is a spot on the front of the dorsal fin.

FIY😉

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Congrats! That's an awesome Tiger!

That's a decent bass. Congrats!

Let's dig up some old Yogi Berra quotes (or at least attributed to him)😉 Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded You better cut the pizza into four slices, I'm not hungry enough to eat six. When you come to the fork in the road, take it. Always go to other people's funerals otherwise they won't come to yours. Baseball is ninety percent mental, the other half is physical.

I am so sorry for your loss!

You should go ahead and check out the models on OnlyFins😉🤣

No wonder there is public bickering due too many brim and perch fishermen on-line😉. I would love to see better photo of the chin barbels and the anal fin, but at first glance this looks like a really big white catfish.

There was some study work done in FL looking at the losses of biodiversity in the states southern rivers. A lot of the rivers in an around Lake Okeechobee were channelized by the Army Corps to move water out to the bays and ocean. Also a lot of canals were dug in an effort to dry out the everglades and prevent flooding. The study found that long straight featureless canals led to the reduction of native fish as well as birds, reptiles, invertebrates. Who could have guessed that 🙄.

I would love to be able to fish them again. Might be getting too warm when I get out this way later in Mar or this Apr.