[Daniel_Gig]

“Spotting lighting of deer”. Everytime I see the term redfish jubilee, that’s what I hear. That analogy is spot on.

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I feel like winter time the pelicans are always acting like they are starving to death.

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With the freeze that just happened, Im thinking about getting into fishing for panfish and other freshwater species.

I’m fishing for bites mainly as it is.

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@Boyce @WestbankJosh seriously, if either one of yall wanna go, hit me up. I’ll pay for fuel, or whatever

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I’ve tried catching crappie, never been successful. I’ve only caught bluegill and bass. I must be fishing all the wrong areas. Would love to go with someone to do it. I’m lost lol

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Finally got the boat back, river is low again, but now Im wondering if all the fished died in the freeze

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All those fish… the dead trout in the crystal clear water is just heart breaking to me and LDWF hasn’t made any statements on the fish kills.

I posted on their Facebook asking if they had an overview on what the impact was. No reply yet

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lol yes!

By the way im Seeing people caught limits of the rainbows today same park, they just caught them on the bottom using power bait

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I’ve been contemplating your reply, I do I make friends with someone who owns a sport fisher? lol I struggle to find friends to fish with, on my boat, when I’m not even looking for them to chip in on gas lol

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Oh really? That doesn’t sound fun at all lol… other than the adventure of going out there

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It’s definitely worrying. That video of the trout shooter posted isn’t “a couple of dead fish”. It looks like the whole freaking population ( I know it likely isn’t, but it’s definitely substantial). I worry people are only sharing on social media, and not directly with LDWF.

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As far as LDWF not being proactive, it is frustrating to me also. Like do i want our fishery to be Florida ? No. But is there a happy medium, I think their is.

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It was all good, she didn’t have the patience for it. Had her cast a few times, but the playground and trees to climb were calling her name.

As for the filets, I had no idea since I hadn’t eaten that before, but it’s not a white meat fish. It has orange meat like salmon does. We smoked it half shell style with brown sugar and some other seasoning. Came out great. But it has tiny bones in it, maybe I didn’t fillet it properly? Idk. Super clean meat since they are fed pellets or whatever at the farm. No worms or anything like you see with specks

But it was still fun. The bad side was it was impossible to figure out a pattern. It felt like I hooked 2 or 3 pretty quick then the bites were random. They weren’t relating to structure or shoreline like we are all used to

Edit. They put a good fight on an ultra light setup. Jumping out the water and everything.

• This reply was modified 1 month, 1 week ago by  Daniel_Gig.

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Looking at Facebook, there doesn’t seem to be much laying off of any species.

I’m relatively new to fish kills like this, is this a common occurrence? In the last 5 years I don’t recall seeing fish kills on that magnitude.

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Just spent 30 mins day dreaming looking at their site. Wish I could reasonably afford to do one of those trips. That must be crazy catching 100lb+ tuna.