Quote Originally Posted by Crusty View Post
Heh heh - It'll be worth it when ya eat 'em.

I once went coast fishing with some guys from work and we went out to the sea channel in February for the black drum run. It was a wet, cold, really rough trip across the bay to get there and we all looked at each other like they were crazy. After we'd been there an hour, the wind died and the sun came out and the drum started coming through the channel. We caught black drum, some as big as your entire leg, until everyone was tired of catching fish. We headed back to the bay house and split into 3 two man teams, each with an electric filet knife and went to work. It took us a while but we eventually had over 100 lbs of drum filets to divide between us after having the biggest fish fry I've ever had. Cleaning the residue afterwards made me think of a slaughterhouse.
yep coast fishing you can fill a boat to the gunnels with gulf trout when they are running before you even know it. went gulf trout fishing with a couple friends of mine back when I did go fishing a lot One time we took my friend's 27 ft Boston whaler to the gulf anticipating a large daily catch we filled the center hold with a couple hundred lbs of ice hit the water just at dawn stayed out until dark and only caught 3 fish the whole day. Day this 3 days in a row hardly caught any fish at all on our last day we figured the heck with it just go with what ice that hadn't melted no use spending more money on something we probably wouldn't need Famous last words so to speak. found a current about 12 miles out calmest water I'd ever seen almost glass smooth as soon as the sun got just above the horizon you couldn't real them in fast enough. not a single fish under about 14" most around 18" to 20" Ran out of room dropped a buoy headed in unloaded Iced everything down filled up with ice headed back out found the buoy cast our rigs and it was as if we had never left. finally we are so wore out from casting and reeling in we called it quits back to shore loaded the boat and drove home. Actually instead of going home we stopped at the Masonic Home and school in Ft Worth and gave all but about 50 lbs of fish to the orphanage and school I'd like to think we brightened a lot of hearts but I bet the staff wasn't thrilled so much