New year triple tail

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• alaprova Posts: 89 Deckhand

  January 2019 #2

  This post was a culmination of 2 days of fishing Sunday 12/30 and Tuesday 1/1 couldn’t have had any better weather Tuesday and except for the fog Sunday it was absolutely gorgeous 

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• permit_me Posts: 1,110 Officer

  January 2019 #3

  Nice. i need to get a couple fly rods. fun fish, so good to eat. 
  
  

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• CaptainBly Posts: 2,419 Captain

  January 2019 #4

  Nice job alex...That one looks like a really decent size trip...

  In Loving Memory of James Zielske, January 19, 1957-July 5, 2013

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• CaptainBly Posts: 2,419 Captain

  January 2019 #5

  Nice job alex...That one looks like a really decent size trip...

  In Loving Memory of James Zielske, January 19, 1957-July 5, 2013

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• trs912 Posts: 156 Deckhand

  January 2019 #6

  Are those around all year?  I see them occasionally but I've never targeted them.  I'd like to give it a go one day.

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• alaprova Posts: 89 Deckhand

  January 2019 #7

  @trs912 they can be caught all year but i only target them in the winter months when they siting on the stone crab traps.

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• permit_me Posts: 1,110 Officer

  January 2019 #8

  funny, I only target them in late fall through late summer.

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• permit_me Posts: 1,110 Officer

  January 2019 #9

  late spring through late summer i meant. miss the edit option

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• alaprova Posts: 89 Deckhand

  January 2019 edited January 2019 #10

  @permit_me How are you targeting them, since during the time you target them there are no stone crab buoys. 
  
  ps: you can still edit by pressing the small gear icon to the left of your profile picture.

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• surfman WC FLPosts: 5,972 Admiral

  January 2019 #11

    
  

  Tight Lines, Steve
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  Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.  Will Rogers

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• CaptainBly Posts: 2,419 Captain

  January 2019 #12

  Burch, if you throw a freelined shrimp or white bait or even a small crab at them, they will usually cooperate.  You can also fish up and down virtually any trap line.   Most people run and look on the balls for them but a lot of times they are there, just not sitting on the surface.  
  
  I have even heard of people scooping them up in 5 gallon buckets.  Sometimes they aren't scared of much.

  In Loving Memory of James Zielske, January 19, 1957-July 5, 2013

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• alaprova Posts: 89 Deckhand

  January 2019 #13

  @CaptainBly your exactly right, one of my friends free netted one just the other day. usually we can get pretty close before they spook, but i usually try to stay as far away as i can but close enough i can still see the fish. the father i am away the more likely i feel the fish is to eat my bait.. I've never thrown live bait at them but given how well i do with flies and artificials i would assume live bait would be just as effective if not more so. there main diet is crabs, i'm one of those people who look in the stomachs of fish while i'm cleaning them and 95% of what i find in a triple tails stomach is cabs.
  
  

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• Reel-Lucky Oldsmar, FLPosts: 3,298 Moderator

  January 2019 #14

  The only Trip I've caught never had a hook in it, basically swam right into my livewell dip net, barely fit his head. Not the sharpest tool in the shed, but fantastic on the grill. 
  Some sweeties there on the fly, great job.

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