Popular Post Herbs73 Posted October 14, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted October 14, 2023 So me and the wife have flown across the pond to see an old school friend who lives in Tallahassee Florida via New Orleans. He’s also a keen angler so he organised a fishing trip. We’ve travelled from Tallahassee to a small town called Apalachicola for a few days and yesterday we went out with captain John Layne from JB charters and fished the St.Vincent sound targeting red drum It was a bit overcast but flat Calm, fishing was a bit slow so we tried a few different marks caching small red drum, pin fish and cat fish Tim catching most of them, fishing in about 2 ft of water using light tackle. Then Tim caught a lively 10lb red drum which gave an hell of a fight and went back as it was a breeding size fish. I still continued with the small fish. The time to pack up came and went as John wanted me to catch a decent fish. Then on my last cast my reel screened off and after a very tiring 15 minute battle (these fish fight hard) John netted a 30lb red drum. when we came back John took us back to his house where he prepped the fish and which we could keep and we took to a local resteraunt. He also run us back to the hotel in his rock crawler 4wd, these Americans like their toys. The boat was pretty awesome, a centre console design powered by a 250 Yamaha which did over 60 knots. What was interesting is that it didn’t have an anchor, on the bow is an electric trolling motor which keeps the boat in position by gps, on the aft they have “power poles”which in shallow water are deployed by a motor and extend down into the mud to hold the boat. Fantastic days fishing with an old mate that I don’t see enough of and a brilliant skipper. Malc, Dicky, Geoff and 7 others 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thejollysinker Posted October 14, 2023 Share Posted October 14, 2023 Awesome stuff, those Red Drum are amazing looking fish! Herbs73 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy135 Posted October 14, 2023 Share Posted October 14, 2023 Now that's a quality write-up about a quality fish! Very well done to you all, but top marks to @Herbs73! Fantastic fish mate 👍👍 Geoff and Herbs73 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintly Fish Posted October 14, 2023 Share Posted October 14, 2023 Nice one @Herbs73, thanks for sharing your adventure. Always nice to bag the bragging rights at the last moment!! Herbs73 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daio web Posted October 15, 2023 Share Posted October 15, 2023 great write up bud nice one fella Andy135 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike farrants Posted October 16, 2023 Share Posted October 16, 2023 awesome - they look like powerful fish - great stuff! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonC Posted October 16, 2023 Share Posted October 16, 2023 From the photos it looks as though you are fishing on one of my marks? We have spoken about this already. Nice fish though. Have you had a good wander around the Bass Pro shop? what a shop, everything you could ever want in one place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintly Fish Posted October 16, 2023 Share Posted October 16, 2023 5 hours ago, JonC said: From the photos it looks as though you are fishing on one of my marks? We have spoken about this already. Nice fish though. Have you had a good wander around the Bass Pro shop? what a shop, everything you could ever want in one place. Even the numbers for your marks it wood seam. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herbs73 Posted October 20, 2023 Author Share Posted October 20, 2023 On 10/16/2023 at 1:46 PM, JonC said: From the photos it looks as though you are fishing on one of my marks? We have spoken about this already. Nice fish though. Have you had a good wander around the Bass Pro shop? what a shop, everything you could ever want in one place. I did let the skipper know we were dangerously close to one of your marks but he really didn’t seem bothered. Yes we did pop into the bass pro shop and wow, there’s literally everything you can possibly imagine, from hunting with cross bows to marine electronics, you can even buy a boat. I’ve never seen so many rods in one place. Got some Gulp alive bait which we were using to catch the red fish. Be interesting to see how they work back home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonC Posted October 20, 2023 Share Posted October 20, 2023 For me the best bit was the family of raccoons that lived on the roof, piss taking little fks 🤣 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herbs73 Posted October 21, 2023 Author Share Posted October 21, 2023 19 hours ago, JonC said: For me the best bit was the family of raccoons that lived on the roof, piss taking little fks 🤣 Which one did you go to, we were in Tallahassee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonC Posted October 21, 2023 Share Posted October 21, 2023 Can’t remember now, it was about 6 years ago. We did the Disney parks so must have been around the Kissimmee area? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herbs73 Posted October 21, 2023 Author Share Posted October 21, 2023 1 hour ago, JonC said: Can’t remember now, it was about 6 years ago. We did the Disney parks so must have been around the Kissimmee area? 270 mile south of Tallahassee, both in Florida though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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