Hey Bud I love your podcast and appreciate your dedication to peotecting our trout fishery. I live in the San Antonio area and would love to go fishing with you some time. I only fish with lures, never keep fish and am solely dedicated to trying to catch big ol sow gator trout. Id love to get together for lunch or something and maybe figure out getting a trip together. I have a boat ready to head to the Laguna and Im always looking for people to help split the cost of trips down south
Chris, I wanna start throwing more artificials. I’ve always used live bait. For a well rounded setup what do recommend as far as rod length and action (med/med, med/mod). I wade fish not shure if that influences your recommendations. Thank
Johnny Mnemonic as a custom rod builder I get to work with a lot of super experienced fishermen. I generally see guys preferring a wading rod that are 6’6”-6’7” for guys under 6’2” tall and 6’8”rod for guys taller than 6’2”. Most prefer a medium power and medium fast action for topwaters and corkys and a medium to medium heavy power fast action rod for soft plastics. An all around winner would be a lightweight 6’6” medium power medium fast action rod. Tight lines
Johnny Mnemonic that’s great to hear and what a good question. I wadefish almost predominantly. My preferred rod is a Laguna Custom Rod Light TX Wader II. It’s a 6’6” that’s super lightweight but very sensitive. For my spinning rod I use a Medium action 7’ Laguna Liquid
What type of habitat, conditions, and baits dominate the citation fish catch datasets. If you ciyld do a report focused on area types big fish perfer would be great.
Hey George, our data is pretty broad considering it comes from the entire coast from NC to TX. We have submissions from all habitat types and conditions. By a large margin however, Texas dominates our dataset and a lot of the areas that are known for big trout in Tx are a mixure of mud, rock, & sand bottom. Structure seems to be the key whether it be natural or manmade. I hope this answers your question.
I have been digging the podcasts! I am a Texas fly nut who has pursued big trout a little, but not a lot. I have a question - What is the proper method to measuring a trout? I have caught 2 trout at 27.5" without pinching the tail. Should the tail be pinched? if so, could I say they were 28" without stretching the truth? Pun intended. LOL! Thanks!
Andrew's Fly Fishing thanks so much for listening and supporting us and we’re always open to feedback, so let us know. Regarding pinch or no pinch? I’ll go back to what Mike McBride and I talked about...define your trophy! If it’s for the citation program, it’s the anglers preference as long as it hits 27” or 30” for me personally, I don’t pinch the tail
This dude is talking about the hot ditch from Florida. When they shut down the hot water discharge, the catch numbers declined but gator trout still hung around the area for years. That was until--the night after I caught my pb 29.5 incher--some poachers came in and netted THOUSANDS of citation fish. That was back in either 2014 or 2015, and the hot ditch has never, ever been the same.The hot ditch area itself (distinct from the larger Elizabeth River fishery) is no longer even a really popular spot for big fall and winter trout. It's a tragedy.
ChesaFreak Boys Fishing I’m actually from Louisiana and recently moved to TX from FL. One of the main inspirations for starting our dirty 30 program was because of the demise of the hot ditch
You can't stand Redfish? How about they fight harder, look better in pics, are way tougher as far as surviving weather etc, and taste better than trout. Anyway I admire your passion for your craft. I love a mean Redfish tho.
Think one of the things that attracts anglers to speckled trout is the fact that they are tougher to figure out. Where they are, what they want, and where they are going next. Redfish are a lot more predictable
Hey Bud I love your podcast and appreciate your dedication to peotecting our trout fishery. I live in the San Antonio area and would love to go fishing with you some time. I only fish with lures, never keep fish and am solely dedicated to trying to catch big ol sow gator trout. Id love to get together for lunch or something and maybe figure out getting a trip together. I have a boat ready to head to the Laguna and Im always looking for people to help split the cost of trips down south
Hey bro I live in Norfolk, VA thanks for the tips so far all of them have worked
Sea Mayo great to hear and awesome feedback
@@speckledtruth4577 more greetings from the 757! I'm from Virginia Beach.
ChesaFreak Boys Fishing thanks for the messege!!! Tight lines
clear as mud
Would love update as to the citation data in major minor and by month
Thank love you work
I’ve been intending to do a podcast with the data but just haven’t had it in me to dig through it
Chris, I wanna start throwing more artificials. I’ve always used live bait. For a well rounded setup what do recommend as far as rod length and action (med/med, med/mod). I wade fish not shure if that influences your recommendations. Thank
Johnny Mnemonic as a custom rod builder I get to work with a lot of super experienced fishermen. I generally see guys preferring a wading rod that are 6’6”-6’7” for guys under 6’2” tall and 6’8”rod for guys taller than 6’2”. Most prefer a medium power and medium fast action for topwaters and corkys and a medium to medium heavy power fast action rod for soft plastics. An all around winner would be a lightweight 6’6” medium power medium fast action rod. Tight lines
Johnny Mnemonic that’s great to hear and what a good question. I wadefish almost predominantly. My preferred rod is a Laguna Custom Rod Light TX Wader II. It’s a 6’6” that’s super lightweight but very sensitive. For my spinning rod I use a Medium action 7’ Laguna Liquid
What type of habitat, conditions, and baits dominate the citation fish catch datasets. If you ciyld do a report focused on area types big fish perfer would be great.
Hey George, our data is pretty broad considering it comes from the entire coast from NC to TX. We have submissions from all habitat types and conditions. By a large margin however, Texas dominates our dataset and a lot of the areas that are known for big trout in Tx are a mixure of mud, rock, & sand bottom. Structure seems to be the key whether it be natural or manmade. I hope this answers your question.
I have been digging the podcasts! I am a Texas fly nut who has pursued big trout a little, but not a lot. I have a question - What is the proper method to measuring a trout? I have caught 2 trout at 27.5" without pinching the tail. Should the tail be pinched? if so, could I say they were 28" without stretching the truth? Pun intended. LOL! Thanks!
Andrew's Fly Fishing thanks so much for listening and supporting us and we’re always open to feedback, so let us know. Regarding pinch or no pinch? I’ll go back to what Mike McBride and I talked about...define your trophy! If it’s for the citation program, it’s the anglers preference as long as it hits 27” or 30” for me personally, I don’t pinch the tail
@@speckledtruth4577 Thank you sir!
This dude is talking about the hot ditch from Florida. When they shut down the hot water discharge, the catch numbers declined but gator trout still hung around the area for years. That was until--the night after I caught my pb 29.5 incher--some poachers came in and netted THOUSANDS of citation fish. That was back in either 2014 or 2015, and the hot ditch has never, ever been the same.The hot ditch area itself (distinct from the larger Elizabeth River fishery) is no longer even a really popular spot for big fall and winter trout. It's a tragedy.
ChesaFreak Boys Fishing I’m actually from Louisiana and recently moved to TX from FL. One of the main inspirations for starting our dirty 30 program was because of the demise of the hot ditch
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You can't stand Redfish? How about they fight harder, look better in pics, are way tougher as far as surviving weather etc, and taste better than trout. Anyway I admire your passion for your craft. I love a mean Redfish tho.
Think one of the things that attracts anglers to speckled trout is the fact that they are tougher to figure out. Where they are, what they want, and where they are going next. Redfish are a lot more predictable
To much waffling