Fish Pictures

[islander727 0]

 

This was a first... A tilapia on a gurgler???

 

 

[mikechell 0]

LOL Yeah ... surprising to catch them on a fly, even more so on top water. My first Tilapia in Florida was on a bluegill popper, from a small pond on the apartment complex's property. I didn't even know what they were. I'd only been living in Florida for a few months when I caught it, and I thought it was some kind of local sunfish.

I do love the fight they put up when you do hook one. Nice fish.

[Dave G. 0]

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This was a first... A tilapia on a gurgler???

 

 

Seems unusual but it is surprising what sorts of fish might take a fly. I thought I was into a serous batch of trout rising in front of me on midges one time, after catching about my fifth herring I decided to move on LOL !

[kennebec12 0]

Found myself a new little sweet spot for browns. Caught this nice 14in fish on a fly from a swap, which was kept for thanksgiving (an old tradition in our family), and caught several other nice fish between 12 and 16in. Was 29 degrees yesterday and my hands were numb when I left the stream.

[singletrack 0]

Caught this great Hali this weekend. It was 17" so not a legal size. But first nice halibut for me.

[mikechell 0]

You caught that on a fly???

I don't care, and I've posted fish I didn't catch fly fishing ... but you should give us some info, ESPECIALLY if you caught a bottom dweller on a fly.

[josephcsylvia 0]

 

Spent about half an hour on a little creek/bayou near the airport. The mosquitoes drove me out ... big as flies, hard like a beetle and swarming every time I stopped walking. Still, caught some nice fish on the Katydid.

 

Hey mike I've been swarmed with mosquito like that when hunting get yourself a thermocell. They are amazing best $25you can spend in florida!!

[Li'lDave 0]

Finally got one of these the other day.... Fecker nearly destroyed the fly line!

 

Bring on the weekend!

[singletrack 0]

Mikechell

Yes I caught it on a fly. They sit pretty shallow some of the year. It was about 20 feet of water. I use a 280 grain shooting head and heavy fly to get down to depth. Fishing the bays from a float tube is pretty fun here in Socal. Here is the fly I use.

[JSzymczyk 0]

Mike I've caught Flounder in Florida using a sinking line and a Clouser Deep Minnow pulled along the bottom. When I was living in Alaska I read about someone who figured out a certain time of the year when big Halibut would actually be high in the water column eating baitfish. The guy caught several nearing 200lbs on streamers.

[mikechell 0]

Mike I've caught Flounder in Florida using a sinking line and a Clouser Deep Minnow pulled along the bottom. When I was living in Alaska I read about someone who figured out a certain time of the year when big Halibut would actually be high in the water column eating baitfish. The guy caught several nearing 200lbs on streamers.

That's the difference I was thinking about. Flounder in Florida can be caught in a foot of water ... with a flashlight and a gig. Halibut are, I always read and heard, a deeper water fish. I was wondering if I was wrong about that, which, apparently, I am.

[Adam Saarinen 0]

Li'lDave! I want to know what it is? Tuna or Albachore? Size? Rod wt? Thanx!

[islander727 0]

You caught that on a fly???

 

I don't care, and I've posted fish I didn't catch fly fishing ... but you should give us some info, ESPECIALLY if you caught a bottom dweller on a fly.

Serious, with witness...

 

I landed a redfish, removed the hook and tossed it aside. After release, I raised the rod tip to cast and I had a fish on. A flounder.

 

They take flies. I get them in the winter fishing clousers.

[Adam Saarinen 0]

Mike! Eide caught a flounder at Easter, he posted a picture!

[mikechell 0]

I understand, guys !!!
Geeze !!! LOL
What I was really wondering about was "halibut" ... since I've always been told there is a definitive difference between halibut and flounder. Kind of like calling a brook trout (would be the flounder) a salmon (would be the halibut).