I've always been fascinated and somewhat intimidated by a fish that swallows it's prey whole. Pretty sure the Syfy Channel will have a horror movie called "Super Grouper" soon enough. Any Groupers around the Pier? What types? Hear their kinda tasty!
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I've always been fascinated and somewhat intimidated by a fish that swallows it's prey whole. Pretty sure the Syfy Channel will have a horror movie called "Super Grouper" soon enough. Any Groupers around the Pier? What types? Hear their kinda tasty!
there is grouper the bays, for sure Pensacola..... but not the grouper you are referring too, those I believe are further south....Goliath grouper ....I have seen some good ones caught offshore in the past and yes very tasty....one of my favorite fish to eat Yellow edge grouper ....some sweet meat
Doubt you'll encounter many grouper around the pier but yes they're very tasty, some of the best in my opinion. As far as eating their prey whole, that's pretty common in the GOM.
OK! But I still want to see "Super Grouper"! Might be even better than "Sharknado"!
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Originally Posted by BDL1969
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"OK! But I still want to see "Super Grouper"! Might be even better than "Sharknado"!"
Check out some YouTube videos of the Goliath grouper. They don't need to make a scifi movie about it cause it is already a real thing. The full grown jack crevalle that we catch at the pier are a mere snack for them(actually the best bait to use for them).
There was a Goliath grouper that lived on the Whiskey wreck in Gulf Shores it wasn't a 300+# monster but it was still a big fish not sure if its still there I haven't been down to that site in years.
A customer of mine,Pete Zimmerman was an underwater welder for Shell and this is a story he told me several years ago. He and two others were working at the base of a rig in a few hundred feet of water. He was bent over a pice of metal standing on one leg,the other leg was horizontal to the gulf floor. While in this awkward position he thought one of his crew was pulling on his leg to get his attention.Well something didn't seem right and when he quit what he was doing and turned his head around,he almost shit in his wetsuit because a couple hundred pound Warsaw had his leg in it's mouth up to his knee. He zapped the fish with his equipmend and he and his buddies took it to the surface and cleaned it on the rig.
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Originally Posted by john g
:crap:o hahaha
I hear stories like that about the cat fish in the Ohio river, being big enough to eat a man :D
LOL!
Call Jeremy Wade ;-)
My grandfather worked at the phone company and knew divers that worked for Alabama Power. One said he was working on something below the Jordan Dam and he claimed a catfish bumped into him so big he thought it was a large piece of drift wood. Needless to say he refused to ever go back down there again.Quote:
Originally Posted by ironman172
about two years ago a tropical storm hit and it was right after the storm we went and fished west beach pas and caught 6 or 7 gag grouper along thw sea wall they were all about 16 to 17 inches long.
Legend around here is that Lake Tenkiller has catfish the size of VW bugs by the dam.
Seems like (if memory isn't too bad faulty) that some time in the late 80's we had a glancing blow from a hurricane but not a major hit. I went fishing on the pier and there were groupers and/or snappers being caught on the end (I cannot remember which species for sure other than they were deeper water fish 'messed' up by the storm). Anyone else remember that?
Though I was only a one year old and thus did not experience it, I have heard this story many times. It was Elena in 1985. My uncle Paul was headed out on a charter when he saw someone pull up a grouper from the jetties. They stopped at the 3-mile barge and filled their fish box with gags. He came in to drop his charter off, got a few of his 6 brothers on as crew, then went out and filled the boat again. Next stop, fish market. Everyone else was doing the same thing and the price of grouper soon bottomed out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dave
I remember as a kid in the 90s fishing off the dock at Jubilee Landing across from Ono and catching grouper after grouper, nothing bigger than a foot long. Though we stayed there for a week every year, only that once did I catch those. There must've been a storm right before our stay but I can't remember.
Last year, we caught a goliath on the 3 mile while shark fishing in the deep sea rodeo. My uncle Larry caught another on the trolling alley (6 or 8 miles out I think). I heard of a few others caught on the trolling alley too; they are coming back. All released since they are prohibited of course.
Yeah Dave that was Hurricane Elena in Sept 1985.
It sat on Florida's Big Bend grouper grounds for a couple of days and then moved NW over Dauphin Island sweeping thousands and thousands of gag grouper onto the Alabama coast.
Most were 2#-4# with a few twice that size, but there were some 'freight trains' too we never saw!
I saw the "Cutty Shark" make many a trip back then,
even fished with them several times ;-)
I caught those grouper for a couple of months after the storm at Perdido Pass along the seawall.
It was soon after when (gag) grouper became regulated first by size restriction, them stricter bag limits.
Thanks guys for the confirmation. I remember that storm now, it turned east and then turned back west. I remembered the fishing more than the storm track until I checked your link #'r! lol
Now where have I heard that story before?Quote:
Originally Posted by Psychobilly
there's always gag's caught in Pensacola bay along with decent red snapper
I remember Dennis Rice telling me about that, that they fished inside the Pass and filled the boat with grouper. I believe that he was also on the boat with Pierless's Uncle Paul when they stopped at 3 mile barge and did the same.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dave
I have caught grouper at Perdido Pass but the trick is to catch a legal size one.