With no posts to read, depression has set in. So let's post about something! What's y'all's most memorable fishing moment / catch on the pier?
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With no posts to read, depression has set in. So let's post about something! What's y'all's most memorable fishing moment / catch on the pier?
That's easy, my first king on the okaloosa pier . Loved it since
Last year when I caught that 22# king on 12# line with a #10 treble while fishing for Spanish. I hooked a Spanish and the king ate it. Big James make an expert throw with the gaff to get him for me before he could circle under the pier. The king had little bite marks from four sharks (or all from the same shark), but the light drag evidently let it get away.
my first king and jack in july of last year. and a brief tarpon hookup. a 7 ft shark on 15 lb line. not fishing related but i'll never forget hunkering down in the pier bathrooms last april while a storm(tornado?) wiped out several campsites in the park including ours. we hope to make many more memories on the pier.
The day I decked 3 nice Specks on 3 left over LY's in 3 casts after leaving the Octi king fishing. I don't remember how many Kings I caught that day, but I will never forget those 3 Specks!
I must admit I was walkin' tall that afternoon. :cool:
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great trout!!
All of em!
My most memorable catch is my first king from the pier.
Another is me catching a 20lb catfish on a breambuster
My first king from the pier. Fishing for spanish just south of the T. Ultralight spooled with about 80 yards of 12# mono. Fishing a gotcha with 50# mono leader. Imagine my suprise when a 15# king spooled me not once but three times. Managed to get to the octi and some old timers gave me some good advice on playing him and then gaffed him for me. Great time.
The most memorable catch from the pier wasn't even a fish I caught. It was actually my oldest son's first king mackerel. We hooked it from the south east corner and he faught it all the way to the pier with me providing assistance with the rod. Once we got it up and gaffes I was elated for him finally getting to fight a king. What made it even sweeter is he caught it on one of the first rods I had built.
My most memorable catch was the cobia I caught the spring of 2012. The fish had been stealing baits from king fishermen for a few days and I brought a bottom rig with me just for it. Mallory Lindy caught me a alewife and I dropped it down on a Carolina rig on the east south east corner. The bait was down there for a total of 1 minute before it was slammed by the fish. I fought the fish all the way to the SSE corner where it shot the gap between the pilion. When it shot the gap I free spooled it. The fish swam out the south end and we proceeded to snag the line with a gaff. Once we got the line up it was cut and spliced in by Chip. We proceeded to fight it to the south west corner where it was gaffes by Chip and dick. It was truly a team effort getting that fish on the deck.
In 2005 while on a late lunch break at work I was fishing off the dock that I was installing snook lights on. I had a junk 2 piece rod that I carried with me in the work van to catch jacks to use as shark bait ay night. I had a piece of cut frozen mullet near the sea wall with I saw my pole about to be dragged in. Set the hook and knew it wasn't a jack. When I started pulling drag I figured I hooked a baby bull shark and the fun would be over in seconds since I only had 15lb mono. I put on the pressure and turn him. It came to the top and jumped out of the water and then I saw it, the biggest snook I'd ever seen. I was installing wire under the dock so I had the S.S. Minnow (a tiny floating raft with a rope to pull it under the docks). I jumped on it and let the fish pull me around the front of the dock while my worker held the rope. Got the fish to the seawall and by now the home owner saw what was going on (who was also anavid snook fisherman) was out with a scale and ppolaroid camera. Got the snook up to him and weight out just under 39lbs. Took 2 pics and released her to fight again. Fight took around 20 mins. Greatest fishing memory/story a, at the time, 19yr old kid could ask for
I haven't been to the pier yet I will be there soon come on Oct 9th. My best for saltwater was a 35# AJ and freshwater is a 15# 30 in flathead catfish but lost a 45# blue cat a hour later after the flathead
The last little batch of bream I caught with my dad. The first fish I helped my two boys catch. Anything I've caught personally is basically insignificant to those three.
ETA - Until I die, I'll never forget my oldest (when he was about 2 or 3) sitting oh so quietly in the bottom of the boat while my dad and I were white perch fishing. Soon figured out why he was sitting so quietly - he was methodically catching and cutting the tails off all the shiners with the scissors on the Swiss Army knife. He remembers it to this day. Oh, my, how we laughed until we cried - he was so proud of himself.
catching a 6 lb speck on #4 under the third piling out from the pier on a 6' alewife :) fed strait under with my bait half way out of the water
6' foot alewife that is on huge bait
I know you meant 6" alewife but that is funny
22# tripletail I caught at the T of the old pier in 1997. I played with that fish for 2.5 hours before she finally ate a 6" live shrimp. Every time she would make the circle she was swimming around the T she would come up and nose the shrimp and then swim off. at one point the shrimp grabbed on to her back and was riding it. when I hooked her she swam strait under the pier all the way to the other side then turned and swam strait out and I freespooled her out to about 80 yards from the pier and walked her to the octi. where Charlie Virciglio netted her for me.
Late November 2010, throwing a small jig for spanish, when the drag started screaming on my little shimano sedona 4000/paired with a med/light rod. Played that fish for nearly 30 min, 22lb red on 10lb line.
Watching my dad catch a 3lb pompano, he turns to me and says, "is that what I think it is!?" haha
First cast at my uncles pond, thought I was hung until that bass surfaced. Felt my heart stop everytime she jumped. 7.5 lbs. Hardly ever catch a fish on the first cast, let alone a biggun.
105# Amberjack 35 miles offshore. Took almost 4 hours to get her up and as soon as we got a tail wrap and a gaff in her, the line broke. I almost had a heart attack!
this past summer the reds were starting to run in the evening about 6 o clock...... i couldnt catch one for the life of me i was pretty pissed. when i hooked up i either got burnt off by braid or got tangled up by googans and didn't feel like untangling it. the the third time they came through i was sittin there waiting on them and i couldnt believe it but it was like boca grande about 40-50 tarpon were in front of the school rolling. alot of people hooked up but were broke off or just lost it. mine actually stayed hooked up i fought the fish until about 8:30 at night i got him at the pier and broke him off. defiantly my most most memorable catch
My best experience was late one night on the old pier. With the lights shining out off the end, I could just barly make out a small fish at the end of the lights. I took an ultra light rod with 6# mono and jig and flipped it towards the fish. It was then that I realized what I saw was only the width of the mouth of a much larger fish. As it turned to grab the bait, it was a Cobia and the fight was on. He just about spooled me and I had to lay on the old pier, leaning over to try and get him back out from under the pier. I fought that fish for what seemed like an hour. No one else around to help, so I tried to gaff him myself and just about dropped the gaff! Finally I tied the rope to the rail so I wouldn't loose the gaff, but he made another run up the side. I finally was able to get him back to the end where I was successful in landing him. No one else around to witness the 26 lb. catch or it may have been a line class record. I should have never been able to land the fish, but I could see the jig hooked in his lip. I'll never forget that night. It was awesome.
I once caught a legal triple tail on 6# and a sibiki rig. sight fed 'em right past the T
yup... took about 4 hours of freespooling to get it to fully swallow my baitQuote:
Originally Posted by SandmanFishing
HAHA I Would have gotten bored after the first 30 minutes of thatQuote:
Originally Posted by Tideline
I am so old I have lots of great memories . A recent one happened in Oct 2012. I was fishing the four seasons pier and standing at the cleaning station fileting some flounder. About an hour after dark and I glanced over and saw two cobia cruising by. I grabbed my flounder rod rigged with a jig and scented shrimp on 10# test line and flipped it in front of the pair. The smaller one won the race and inhaled the jig. About 20 mins later a guy on the pier netted him for me. It was pure luck to keep him out of the pilings and luck that the smaller one took the jig because I doubt that I would ever have landed the big one. I sure did enjoy the filets at the dinner table . Don't know the weight buy it was a little over 36 inches. Made me smile big...