2010 Fishing Reports

Thanks for the report, Jake!~! We greatly appreciate it!~! Now for Willy to get back here and get the pics/report posted. LOL... Sounds like he's having a great time there and doing good fishing too!

Sounds like Willy is having some fun.

On the first day I just fished by the house. I caught some kind of shiners in the cast net. They make awesome bass bait.



That was the only big shiner and he was eaten in no time.



The next three days we spent fishing in St. Andrews. It is a state park in panama city. I can't remember the exact lengths of the fish in each pictures but over all I got a 28,30,32,34 and two 36 inch redfish. Dad caught a 30 and 38 inch red. The only one Mike caught was a 27 1/2. We could've got busted big time. We were told the slot for redfish was 18-36 inches. Actually it is 18-27 inches and is 1 fish per person per day. We had 3 reds on the stringer and all three over 30 inches long. Another guy told us that it was one fish per day but he thought the limit was 36 inches so we put the biggest one back. Here are the pics. I'm not real sure on weights but my 2 36 inchers felt around 20-25 pounds and dads 38 was probably over 25. What is the average size on redfish Greg? When I started fishing I knew what they looked like and how hard they fought because we caught a few on accident a few years ago. I didn't know where to find them or what they bit on so I caught some pin fish and picked a random spot.

Awesome fish Willy congrats to all of you guys, even though you could have gotten in trouble (and we have all been there at some point) it looks like you had awesome weather for fishing. I wonder what took a bite out of that one red, looks like it would have been a big fish to do that. Congrats to you guys again awesome job.

Thanks Mike. I'm glad we didn't get caught. They don't joke around with that stuff. We can't make up our minds if a shark tried to eat the big red or if it was hit by a boat. One thing for sure though it would take an big fish to even think about eating a 38 inch redfish.

I agree buddy, think about hooking into that fish lolol.

Here is a story for ya, you know that i do the ice fishing thing alot, well i talk to alot of people when out on the lake and when doing so i find people that don't like some fish. Well the Northern Pike isn't like by people just because they have to many bones, well what happen is is i told a bunch of people that i would take them and that they could put them in my fish house if i wasn't there and i would take care of them. Well i didn't go fishing for about a week, guess what lolol when i did get there i had (17) Northern Pike in my fish house guess what the limit is (3) and (6) in the freezer so i been there to buddy. lolol

Good thing the wrong people didn't see them. I always thought pike were good eating fish? I would'nt of had a problem giving away the redfish if they were in the slot. Everyone that stopped by told us about how good they taste.

An average redfish is 33 to 38 inches and weighs 14 to 20 pounds..Those are some nice ones there.

Awesome pics, Willy!~! Congrats to all of you on your catches! Looks like you all had a great time and hooked into some decent fish AND weather!~! I love the blue water! Just makes the picture..

Sound like u had a blast fishing time there! Good looking fish!

ty 4 sharein nice fish ....ive been down there but was back in the 70s

Thanks Andrew and Peg. In my macro media flash class we are done working for the year. It is only a half year course so we have the other half to do whatever. As long as we are using the computer for something productive we get a good grade. I made the video for my florida trip several days ago but never posted it. The song I used is called the kill and I think it is one of the best rock songs except for the part where he screams this is who I really am. I am uploading it right now but will post it in the morning.

Here is the video. Like I said it is one of their songs where they scream a couple words but other than that few seconds this song is one of my favorites. I doubt I will make any more videos with their music. I don't know which band I will move onto now though.

Excellent job on the video Willy!!!....Nice vids and pics.

Thanks Greg. It skips a few pictures though when they flash by pretty fast. It looks perfect on my computer with media player but when I watch it online it skips a few. Oh well. Since our school won't be teaching flash after this year I'm trying to see if I can get flash for my home computer. They bought it for like 5000 users and still have several hundred left. It will take longer to make the videos but you can pretty much make it do whatever you want if you know how to use it.

Sorry I haven't reported lately. The little channels are biting good. In the past 4 trips I have caught around 35-40 all together. They were all about the size of this one.



No big ones but I have been using small pieces of bluegill fillet though so no surprise. After I fillet the bluegill I cut the meat off the skin and cut it into small pieces. 1 seven or eight inch bluegill will give me about 15 pieces of bait.



Most of the weeds across the road have broke the surface but have slowed down alot. They haven't grown much at all.

u never told me u made a new video!...its preaty beast to

Awesome video willy for sure, and i haven't even seen a catfish here yet, we been doing the panfish thing here, thanks for the report buddy please keep them coming i enjoy seeing the fish. hey get that jake fishing and get more pics. lolol

Thanks Mike and Jake. I will show you the video on my computer when you come over it skips about 6-8 pictures on the Internet. I'm guessing it is where the hosting site compressed it but that usually only throws the audio off a little bit. I need to get some minnows and try them. Icatch alot of big panfish with them. Not just crappie but bluegill, rockbass, and some hybrid looking thing that I have no clue what they are.

Cool video, Willy!~! Great catches too!~! I've only been fishing once this year so far. The fish wasn't biting. It will be about 2 more weeks and it will be warm enough for me to fish. I can't wait to get some night fishing in this year!~! Also, Matt has a little 12' John Boat that we will be using quite a bit this year. Hopefully we can get some good fish from the boat!~!

Cool video and nice pics!

Thanks Peg and Andrew. I need to update when I get home. I have more video and had the best day yet. I won't go into detail right now because I'm on my iPod at the hospitol but it starts with an I and ends with caught Dannys flathead twice with the only 2 bluegill I had in a 30 minute trip after school.

Nice report Willy.

Here are the pics. First I rode across the road to check my traps for bait. Only had 2 small gills and 2 crawfish. When I got to danny's I casted one gill out and one crawfish. I started the camera and recasted the small bluegill because he wasn't where I wanted him. At this point I have been there about 2-3 minutes. 40 seconds later the bobber goes under and I set the hook. I knew right away it was the flathead because no channels would fight that hard. It was a short fight (maybe 2 minutes) and Trent finally got to see the flathead. took a couple pics and put him back. I took my other bluegill out and casted him back up by the dam. I stayed another 10 minutes or so before I started packing up because I knew we were going to the hospitol to see my grandpa. I left the bluegill for last. After I got everything else I looked up in time to see my bobber almost all the way under and coming to the right. I set the hook and didn't think it was the flathead. He wasn't fighting hard but I had just caught him. I was very surprised when I seen that rounded tail come up 5 feet behind the bobber. After that I went ahead and left.

Nice fish and report willy congrats, and hope your grandpa is ok.