[gmack]

Well my summer fishing season is almost over because I'm moving to take a new position within the company I work for.

It has been a good summer!

Most of our trips are fishing for mangroves and then misc fish after that is over.Mangroves fishing is my favorite. Over the last 6-7 years we honed a nice technique to catch em'. Now that we started jigging the action is non-stop! We fish for mangroves until our live bait runs out (which is really really quick once on a good bite). Then we jig for our limit's of red snapper and other fish. It's been fun fishing! Here's a few pictures of recent trips:

Me with a jigged up red

my younger brother, cody, with a mangrove

me with another nice jigged up snapper (yep that's a jig that cost $4 on ebay)

dad with a nice lemon

me with a mangrove

some of a days catch

my dad with a mangrove

jack caught on a jig (I just about fell out of the boat in this pic....it was rough that day)

my godchild, brody, with a spanish.....that's all that boy wants to catch. every time I ask him if he wants to go fish his reply is always "can we go catch some spanish mackeral?"

brody with a red he caught

bud jay with a blackfin caught while grouper fishing
http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/gmack7277/fishing4-20-08014.jpg

jay and I with a nice gag
http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/gmack7277/fishing4-20-08019.jpg

me with a mangrove
http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/gmack7277/IMG_0394.jpg

dad with a tank!
http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/gmack7277/IMG_0398.jpg

dad with his catch of 2 red snapper on one hook!!!!
http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/gmack7277/IMG_0400.jpg

me with a fatty
http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/gmack7277/IMG_0404.jpg

cody with a nice one
http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/gmack7277/CodysMangrove.jpg

jay with a nice mangrove
http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/gmack7277/Jaywithmangrove.jpg

brody with more spanish
http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/gmack7277/pics055.jpg

bullred and brody
http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/gmack7277/pics013.jpg

dad with a big ole white trout
http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/gmack7277/IMG_0238.jpg

cody with a little jigged up AJ
http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/gmack7277/IMG_0251.jpg

dad with a nice snap
http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/gmack7277/IMG_0267.jpg

me with a lemon
http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/gmack7277/IMG_0273.jpg

nice triple
http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/gmack7277/FishingTrip8-18-07019Medium.jpg

dang kings
http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/gmack7277/FishingTrip8-18-07013Medium.jpg

dad with a big ole drum caught while making bait
http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/gmack7277/IMG_0989Medium.jpg

table full
http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/gmack7277/Picture053.jpg

nice chest!
http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/gmack7277/Picture050.jpg

dad with a nice one
http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/gmack7277/Picture044.jpg

ride out (that's my brother's boat)
http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/gmack7277/Picture035.jpg

me with a big one on light tackel (that wasn't eady!)
http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/gmack7277/IMG_0890Medium.jpg

sweet!
http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/gmack7277/IMG_0888Medium.jpg

another drum while making bait
http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/gmack7277/IMG_0851Medium.jpg

Well sorry for so many pictures, but as I said the fishing has been good!!!!! All trips made out of Fourchon, LA.

Gary

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[feeder]

That looks like a good summer right there. Thanks for sharing the pics.

 

[JerseyBrian]

wow...I'm amazed at how big the Mangroves get in the Gulf. I could spend all day pulling on those things. Love catching them....love eating them!

 

[Guest]

why do you call the ling 'lemons'? i've never heard that

 

[Deep_Sea_Gull]

Why is it a Ling and not a Cobia?

I have always heard them called lemons or lemon fish in the Fla panhandle area... They tend to be Cobes when you get to Ala...

They are called shark the first time many people see them swimming. LOL

Nice pictures there gmack. Thanks for sharing. I hope that the new responsibilities do not keep you from fishing too mych.

 

[gmack]

Bret.....the common name in south LA is lemonfish for a cobia.