Best or Most Unique Fish of 2017?
What was everyone's best or most surprising catch of 2017?
I think for me it was catching 16 - 17" Needlefish while fast trolling a tiny spoon in my kayak out in Eastern Bay. While I've seen these fish around docks before I'd never caught one. And the ones I caught were the biggest I've ever seen, although it looks like they can get way bigger. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Needlefish The coolest part of that day though was that the Needlefish gave me a good indicator of where to fish. Shortly after bumping into them I started catching 10 - 13" White Perch and almost legal Rockfish. I know that would be a bummer to most here but an 18 or 19" Rockfish on an ultralite in a kayak is pretty good fun.:) |
I was surprised at the number of 3-4 lb Catfish around the bay bridge this year.
Some days we got 6-7 of them on cut Spot. |
A 39” rockfish in Late July/early Aug on a 17Tony at Swan Point was probably as out of the norm as possible as I got this year. Actually a lot of nice 30”+ Fish were caught this summer. :)
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Caught a lot of small weakfish and flounder north of the bridge. Hopefully a good comeback in future years.
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Caught a 17" shad jigging at Man of War Shoal. The jig snagged him in the nose.
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Seems that over the past 7 or 8 years we've been catching a ton more catfish; even on lures like RatLtraps. |
One of the Needlefish
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Hard to multitask in the yak so I don't have any really good pics.
http://cbangler.com/attachment.php?a...1&d=1512575093 |
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I would have to say the most unusual catch of the season this year was when Jay and I were jigging around the huge pods of bunker that were on Belvedere shoals in August trying for some stripers. After a few minutes of jigging I hear Jay yell I got a screamer and it turned out to be a 25” spanish mackerel!
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I love catching spanish macs; i rarely get far enough south to target them.....although that might change this coming year since I live a lot further south on K.I. now. |
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