On Sun, 22 Feb 2015 20:48:54 -0500, wrote:

On Sun, 22 Feb 2015 19:52:48 -0500, John H.
wrote:

On Sun, 22 Feb 2015 12:38:18 -0500, wrote:

On Sun, 22 Feb 2015 10:00:46 -0500, John H.
wrote:


I was thinking more of catfish or pan fish. One of my brothers lived on some creek
near Biloxi, MS, for a while. He had a dock with a small boat. He could sit in the
lawn chair at the end of the dock and catch enough fish for dinner in a couple hours.
Catfish or panfish - sometimes a bass if he decided to work.

Salt water catfish are not really that much of a food fish. It is a
lot of work for a little bit of meat. The sail cats are a bit better
but still a lot of work. The bone in the head is popular with
christians tho.
http://www.briancoad.com/dictionary/...fix%20fish.htm


Thomas Edison and Henry Ford used to live a few miles up river from us
in the winter time and there are pictures of them catching tarpon from
their docks. Tarpon are great fun to catch but not good eating
however. There are still a fair number of tarpon in the river but
most of them are caught from small boats these days.

When we lived in Tampa there was a lot of tarpon fishing going on. This was in early
'70s. I never went because I'd heard they weren't much to eat. I didn't have a boat
at the time. A friend and I would go to the south end of the Sunshine Skyway bridge,
walk out into the inlet and catch a mess of trout using shrimp as bait.

I used to fish at O'Neils right at the north end of the causeway when
I was a kid (before the toll booth on the St Pete side)
That was always very productive. Sea grass was about knee high in 3
feet of water and there were all sorts of fish in there. Usually you
were catching trout and reds on a buck tail. Occasionally someone
would come up with a snook or even something more exotic.

We'd buy some fresh shrimp and throw that out with enough split shot to keep the
shrimp from floating in the tide.

I always liked the challenge of tricking a fish into hitting an
artificial but I have drown my share of shrimp and thrown all sorts of
cut bait.
Up there in the bay, peeler crabs were the bait of choice

Hell, the damn things got too expensive to use. They did work though.
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