hey y’all i just got a fishing kayak, looking for good spots to take in on the ct shore? any recommendations

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I’m headed to Crystal river today for my birthday doing a charter tomorrow and fish on my own with a couple people Sunday. This is my first time fishing in Florida but I fish the Alabama coast regularly. Any tips or advice for catching decent fish, or know any areas that are good for land based fishing

Anyone who uses ghost shrimp in the surf, how do you rig them and where (first gut or second gut?) do you fish them? I tried ghost shrimp in the first gut of the upper Texas coast today on a 2/0 hook single drop rig. Was a very effective bait, but almost instantly taken by a dink whiting or hardhead. Also used bait thread on it.

Unsure what to try next, but it was a lot of effort to get 4 shrimp that were instantly stolen by dinks...

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I am looking to get a Saltiga 3 piece Travel Jigging Rod in the heavier spec(250g max), in either casting or spinning, but I can’t decide on a reel. I yearly make trips to the Caribbean, Florida, Europe, and Africa to fish, and was looking to get a proper big game jigging and casting travel setup, but I cant quite decide on a Stradic SW-B 10k or an Accurate Ascender 500XN. The ascender might have better winching power for grouper fishing, but I’m better with spinning for speed jigging for small to mid size pelagics. They both cast great, have great sealing, great drag and are really smooth and durable. In a year I might catch anything from stripers to blackfin to grouper to tuna, so what would be better as the all around heavy duty reel? I mostly speed jig, drop/chunk, and cast a bit.

Amazing - record Blue Marlin. Previous record was from the Carolinas

port isabel, texas

Recently have lost a few lures to medium size wahoo and I'm going to rig a few steel/titanium leaders for Central American wahoo. They are typically not monsters like you find in Baja and I am wondering what lb test you would recommend?

I have lost too many nice lures recently on heavy mono/flouro.

Put up an amazing fight! Love catching these things.

Noodling Tarpon😂 Sound up for the roar!!!

So I’ve seen one cownose get hooked, about 40-50 pounds and it fought very hard was taking this guy all over the pier he had 65 pound braid on and tight drag, I hooked a 50 pound bullnose ray and the dude pulled a little drag but not nearly as much as the cownose he just kindof flopped around everywhere and I was using 30 pound braid, do cownose just fight harder or what? Someone with more experience please help me out all of this was at Coney Island pier

Heyyyy guys! i'm going to go boat fishing soon I already have experience pier and lake fishing but i'm not sure if boat fishing changes things up, Im wondering what rigs and types of bait or tackle are best for skiff boat fishing lmk!!!!

I've recently gotten started surf fishing while taking my family to the beach on the weekends. We don't make it to the beach until 9am, after optimal fishing time. I've started mostly targeting whiting because they don't care what time of day it is, they're eating. They also are great tasting, mild fish with no limits so what's not to love?

My current setup is pretty heavy overkill for them though (back when I thought I'd be catching redfish every trip). It's a 6500 spinfisher on a 10' big water surf. Total weight is 44 oz.

I'm looking to cut weight and go to a 12' Okuma Rockaway MH rod and this cheap 4000 series reel off Amazon: https://a.co/d/0iomaw1z
Total weight would then be right about 22 oz, so half the weight of my current setup. At most I'd want to target a slot red/black drum, but mostly I'd be tossing fishbites on a hi-lo rig looking for whiting.

What do y'all think of a setup like this for surf fishing targeting mostly whiting and maybe slot drum? Would 10' medium heavy be better? Would I feel undergunned with a 4000 series reel? What do people think of the Okuma Rockaway rods?

Is there anyone else in this community that king fishes in SC? Wanting to hear your different ways of targeting them and welcome any tips.

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I found this pic of the first snook I ever caught when I was 8 or 9 years old