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2ifbyC
Posted 2009-07-26 8:59 PM (#405933 - in reply to #405908)
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast		Fox had a blurb day on noodling and mentioned that 34 people died last year doing such.

Spiny lobster (aka Caribbean lobster) do not have claws, unlike the New England. Locally, the SL are fondly referred to as the 'cockroach of the sea', ergo 'bug'.




Those pics were from our first day of last years mini-season. Hopefully we can do as well this week.

Got leave a few in the water for TJ, Bonnie and Paul's visit in August...

Come on down... the water's fine!
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WillaMuse
Posted 2009-07-26 9:16 PM (#405934 - in reply to #405908)
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Location: Right now?
Actually, noodling is using your fist and arm to stick into holes under water and under banks to get a large catfish to bite on and then "try" to swim to the surface with it still latched on...very popular in the South and has been know to kill more than one person who couldn't make it back to the surface when the 100lb or so catfish refuced to let go...not for the weak at heart...I knew guys with scars to prove the battles on their arms....
I have really gotten an education today! I LOVE this forum!

Oh my goodness! That is WILD! I won't even stand in the shore water of the ocean (and we owned a beach cottage too, that I still use, lol), let alone a river or a LAKE!

I mean, geez, my ex owned a 28 footer motor boat (or whatever they call them), and I'd go out on it with him. After all ~ the boat was named after me, but I always hated every, single second of it because I was truly terrified. The fact that I'm an ivory skinned redhead, doesn't improve my love for the sun, either.

An incident of witnessing a twenty foot high water spout while we were out on the water one day, finished my nautical days for good, I think perhaps even leaving me with a little bit of post traumatic stress disorder, but I'll tell that story some other time. It was just too scary, high speeds and water ~ for me, terrifying.

I appreciate the asthetics of a beautiful body of water, and I love sitting on the beach in the earliest of the morning or in the evening, but that's as far as my 'love' goes. I guess I should work on that phobia.

I would however, be willing to go crabbing or lobster fishing, because I am pretty sure you sit kind of still for that. And I love eating lobster and crabs! Iffy! I'll bring the butter and hot sauce ... also, I make a helluva paella, fellas! ;)
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2ifbyC
Posted 2009-07-26 10:17 PM (#405935 - in reply to #405908)
Subject: Re: OT - Something Fishy About This
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast
Originally posted by WillaMuse:
I would however, be willing to go crabbing or lobster fishing, because I am pretty sure you sit kind of still for that.
Actually, 'bugging' can be quite labor and technique intensive, especially when snorkeling for 'em.

Once I saw a hole in some coral that I just KNEW had to have a bug in it. Since the water clarity wasn't great, I had to 'stick' my nose right up to it. All I saw was a lime green head with a mouthful of choppers! Yepper, good ol' Mr.Morey eel made me pop to the surface and move on.

Do a YouTube search for 'lobster keys'. You'll get the idea...
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MusicMishka
Posted 2009-07-27 10:40 PM (#405936 - in reply to #405908)
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains		Great Resorse for Keys Lobster
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2ifbyC
Posted 2009-07-28 12:38 AM (#405937 - in reply to #405908)
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast		OK, one more post prior to bedding down for tomorrow's (oops, this mornings) 'bug' scouting venture.

One of my son-in-laws brother is a 'bug' virgin and so 'pumped'. We just spent four hours and a few adult beverages going over the 'dry land' techniques, what to expect and to look for.

Not until he gets in the water and has someone show him the sighting clues, how to coax a bug out and successfully net one, will he be able to do so.

So I guess I can relate this to guitar learning and playing. It's so much more difficult to learn on your own. Ya just can't rely on the web to get ya to where ya wanna be!

Geeze, I need to take my own advice...
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Slipkid
Posted 2009-07-28 6:36 AM (#405938 - in reply to #405908)
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twistedlim
Posted 2009-07-28 7:27 AM (#405939 - in reply to #405908)
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Location: Michigan		Brad,
That looks like a channel in Lake St. Clair?

Iffy, you guy always look like your havin too much fun!

One way to make fish look bigger is have a small person hold them.
Here is my daughter (all 5' and 100lbs) with her almost 4 lb smallmouth caught Memorial Day in the UP. She loves to fish and being a grad student has recently realized it is "free food". Oh and Willa she caught it off the dock, so you would feel safe except for the UP mosquitos!

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Slipkid
Posted 2009-07-28 9:02 AM (#405940 - in reply to #405908)
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Location: south east Michigan		Rich... my canal empties out to the North Channel about 1/2 mile up from Lake St Clair.
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WillaMuse
Posted 2009-07-28 9:46 AM (#405941 - in reply to #405908)
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Location: Right now?		Rich, pretty daughter, and holy cow! Look at that FISH! Good to know she was on the dock, haha! ;)
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WillaMuse
Posted 2009-07-28 9:59 AM (#405942 - in reply to #405908)
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All I saw was a lime green head with a mouthful of choppers!
Good grief. The authorities would have been pulling ME out with a fishing line if that happened to me, lol. Iffy, you're a salty dog fer sure, ain't 'cha? Hmmm... makes me wonder what the true origin of that expression ("salty dog") is. That was an incredible haul you got that day! Do the 'bugs' taste better or not as good as the other kind, and what is a 'rock lobster'?
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2ifbyC
Posted 2009-07-28 11:04 PM (#405943 - in reply to #405908)
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Originally posted by WillaMuse:
Do the 'bugs' taste better or not as good as the other kind, and what is a 'rock lobster'?
I prefer the bugs as I think the tail meat is more tasty and delicate. But I don't really want to start a crustacean 'battle'...

Down here a 'rock lobster' is one ya can't reach! ;)
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2ifbyC
Posted 2009-07-28 11:14 PM (#405944 - in reply to #405908)
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Originally posted by WillaMuse:
Do the 'bugs' taste better or not as good as the other kind, and what is a 'rock lobster'?
I prefer the bugs as I think the tail meat is more tasty and delicate. But I don't really want to start a crustacean 'battle'...

Down here a 'rock lobster' is one ya can't reach! ;)
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MusicMishka
Posted 2009-07-29 10:17 AM (#405945 - in reply to #405908)
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains		Just spoke to Iffy by cell on his boat; they've got 14 "bugs" aboard...
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Patch
Posted 2009-07-29 10:23 AM (#405946 - in reply to #405908)
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Originally posted by MusicMishka:
Just spoke to Iffy by cell on his boat; they've got 14 "bugs" aboard...
Ask him if he can freeze a couple and ship'em to Poughkeepsie.
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PEZ
Posted 2009-07-29 12:41 PM (#405947 - in reply to #405908)
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Location: Nashville TN.		Dinner?
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2ifbyC
Posted 2009-07-29 10:32 PM (#405948 - in reply to #405908)
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast		Quick check in...

No wheres near last season's first day! We worked our fannies off ALL day and have 15 tails vac sealed and in the freezer. Last year we were in with our limit (36) by 11 o'clock AM...

Gonna take a nap and go out bully netting (Google is your friend) at 2 AM. Hopefully we can make up for the lack of the daytime numbers.

'Bug bulletins' to be posted as time allows... Doesn't look good sport fans...

Getting a great tan though! Think nutmeg...
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Patch
Posted 2009-07-30 9:44 AM (#405949 - in reply to #405908)
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Originally posted by 2ifbyC:
Think nutmeg...
How 'bout we just think "nut"? ;)
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MusicMishka
Posted 2009-07-30 1:13 PM (#405950 - in reply to #405908)
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains		Still some mighty fine eatin...mmmmm...yummmm!


BTW: Rich, your daughters fish is really nice...mine looked very similar until I put it in a white cooler for the trip home from the river...Smallies will try to camouflage to their surroundings...they are know as fresh water chameleons...
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jstout
Posted 2009-07-30 1:25 PM (#405951 - in reply to #405908)
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Location: Texas		Looks like some of you are getting some good fishing done,if it would'nt so hot around here I would try my luck,pretty good smallmouth at canyon lake,those lil devils are sure scrappy when you set the hook,never have caught one as nice as the ones pictured tho.
good luck
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ladylaw
Posted 2009-07-30 2:39 PM (#405952 - in reply to #405908)
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Location: Reisterstown, Maryland		Wow! I've just started back fishing and all I'm catching so far are little sunfish and crappie.
Good eatin' guys and gals!

Anita
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2ifbyC
Posted 2009-07-30 11:04 PM (#405953 - in reply to #405908)
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast
Originally posted by Patch:
How 'bout we just think "nut"?
Many of ya'll already know that for a fact!

Bug Update Bulletin:

Busted buns again today and only got five more. Worst bug season in many years for us.

But... this evening we celebrated with a camp feast fit for 'cracka' royalty:

Fresh Apalachicola oysters, shucked on site with local key limes, saltines, horsey cocktail sauce
Grilled roasted fresh yellow/white sweet corn on the cob, de-silked and in the husk
Apple wood grilled 1 1/4" T-bones
Grilled buttered Cuban bread

No one had room for dessert. Dang good thing, in that I didn't plan for any...

Me be tired and full... 'nite ya'll... zzzzzzzzzzz
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2ifbyC
Posted 2009-07-30 11:31 PM (#405954 - in reply to #405908)
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast		Geeze, I must be tired. I forgot the menu headliner specialty of the evening; apple wood grilled




ZZZzzzz...
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