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Thanks, I’m guessing baitfish patterns and poppers? Yea I’ve made that walk a few times. I like it but because it’s much more wild on the way out to the point but those mosquitoes are brutal if the breeze is slow haha

Thanks! How do I catch a mackerel?!?

A buddy of mine and his friend started that TV station. I think they made more money selling the viral video after dude decided to test their new camera by putting it on this boat and letting it record. Internet classic. Nuts. Even made it to Family Guy.

Never met him but I’ve met a couple of YouTubers down there.

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Headed down to Gulf Shores to stay in a condo.. Looking for any tips or advice from you guys that I can use on the trip as far as bank and kayak fishing the bays lagoons lakes or Gulf nearby (Gulf Shores, Fort Morgan, Orange Beach etc) I like any and all types of fishing action haha. Yeah I'm in good shape physically and have taken my kayak with me before and fished the grass around the island. Most of my stuff is for bass and trout (fly rods, various sizes of spinning rods and reels) but I do have a couple of 10 and 11’ surf rods and spinning reels that I have taken down previously. I also have a Shimano Curado Hg 201 baitcaster that I believe might be ok to use in the salt (?) paired with a nice 7’1” Dobyn’s Medium Heavy bass rod.. I’ve had some success fishing for redfish and black drum at night with live bait. Can I rent a fly rod? All I have is 1wt 2wt and 5wt all cheapies and reels not made for salt. Are there any go-to lures that I might have already that I should bring? Last year I caught mullet and crab in a nearby lagoon with a cast net that I used for bait at night. Any help is much appreciated!!

Nice!

Love it

Last week I got caught in a root just as I was leaving the water (one more cast) and I decided to reel down to shake it loose. When it came off my rod tip was dangling there as well. I said more than one naughty word. All the way home in fact.

One nice long float will make all seem much better.

They don’t have squat on these dudes racing 1000 hp diesel canoes with tiller handles… https://youtu.be/Uj4yymmPCkU

Just wait until these catch on….

Good post. I wonder why they they don’t order the enzyme test immediately for all chest pain in men?

I’ll put this here. This guy is great. Hell go out and compare and test just about any tool on the market that the viewer suggests..

That’s a good report 👍

If you can get close enough, I’ve caught a bunch this year mainly on small floating shad raps when they’re hunting on the surface. If they drop down they still will hit it when you crank it down. Also caught a bunch on poppers with the fly rod…

I love the p line %100 fluorocarbon in 6 and 8 for the streams. Bought the copolymer one by mistake and it was terrible.

Yeah Martin is an old company but the reels are made in China. That said, I love them and I bought 3 for $11 a piece this spring. They’re so light on my small fly rods. Also great crappie reels and catfish clickers…

Tournament banning forward facing sonar for the rest of tour. https://promusky.com/news

Look up the term “integrated pest management”. IPM is basically using multiple products with different modes of action (the way it kills) to control pests. The reason you do this is that pests have fast reproduction cycles and can become tolerant of the product quickly. Also this method allows for much less toxic controls to be used if you are concerned about what you are putting in your body. I use: Pyganic (knockdown power) Neem Oil (growth/molting inhibitor) Pest Out (irritant/smotherer) alternate and skip a day or two in between. add in other products to the schedule if desired. Use a tiny bit of dish soap or another sticker-spreader when spraying these on for adhesion to the plants…..

I remember reading that copperhead bites are usually not that deadly which is good because copperhead bites contain toxins that aren’t easily treated by the generic antivenin hat they use for most of the other pit vipers in the US

Am I the only one on this site that’s been bitten by a rattlesnake? Funny story. I’ve handled thousands of snakes and while living out west I would routinely relocate Timber Rattlesnakes after removing them from my property. One spring morning I was meeting the neighbor because we were going to do some fishing where a creek feeds into our river and a lot of two pounder rainbow would hold. While waiting for my buddy to show up I started pulling some thistles that had grown underneath the running board of the barn. The thistle poked me a couple times and I thought to myself ”I should walk up the hill to the truck and get my gloves” but as I reached down to pull more weeds I felt another poke and looked down to see that a tiny snake had reached under the board from the outside and had bitten me at the base of my thumb. I saw a tiny bit of liquid drip off the snakes fang as it retracted back from under the board. I imagine it was attracted to all the activity I was causing on the other side of the board thought my thumb was something to eat because it went out of its way to bite me. I looked down at my thumb and there was already instantly a black spot about the size of a dime. After a 2 Hour drive back to town my arm had swollen all the way to my shoulder. What’s weird was my thumb was huge but my four fingers weren’t swollen. When I got there the nurse asked me on a scale of one to 10 what my pain level was. I told her that my arm was about a seven but the rest of me felt like I was partying. She responded with “everybody says that” and proceeded to dump some morphine into my arm which knocked me unconscious. I woke up and they told me they had given me four antivenin shots. Here’s your bill for 50 grand edit: had to clean up the voice to text errors

That snake won’t need to eat for a year… I caught this beauty in the garden last week. Let it go back into the garden later.

Thanks for the report👍

Nice! Did you say you boil the tails?