Trophy Fish

I don't take many pictures while fishing but here's a couple odds and ends.

My first catch worthy of bragging about.

7.5-pound catfish caught at a little private lake my friends and I use to fish at. I guess I was around 12 years old at the time. There was an area on the lake where we’d catch shiners on dough balls for bass fishing. To attract the shiners we’d chum for them by digging a coffee can into ant-hills, then throw the ant-egg laden sand in the water. The shiners would go nuts, we’d catch our share then go bass fishing. Once in awhile this catfish would come out of the grasses, bend our hooks, break our lines and I imagine he’d pick off a few shiners during the feeding frenzy. One day we ran out of bread for making dough balls so we put rolled up pieces of paper on our hooks, threw our chum in the water and began fishing. Like usual it didn’t take long for the feeding shiners to show up then out of no-where this big catfish takes the line. Needless to say I/we ran all the way home to show it off, take this picture then fried him up. I can’t ever remember catching another catfish from that lake. Being a private lake maybe there weren’t many stocked in it to begin with.

One of my first fish caught in a kayak.

45.5" Cobia on top-water.  Cobia tend to head straight for deep water when caught and waste no time getting there.  A real kick in the pants in a kayak.

What was this guy thinking?

This helps to prove my theory that color and lure size really don't matter much.  I believe fish will strike anything if presented properly.  Its their natural predatory instinct.

3 to 4' shark caught between Anclote Island and the power plant

The scary part was, I had been fishing alone about 1.5 miles off shore. Twenty minutes after releasing this shark big bertha, with tail and dorsal out of the water, was thrashing around 15 yards behind me. I thought it might have been eating something by the way it was acting. It didn't matter, I wasn't sticking around to find out and left allot faster than I arrived!

Inshore Grouper (Jewfish)

My first Grouper of any size.  38" I'd guess 30 pounds or so.  I didn't realize grouper of this size could be caught inshore.

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