limeyangler

Hi all, Got a good crappie spot 10 minutes off the front lawn. Love the time change, that extra hour and warm weather makes my afterwork routine so much more fun than coming home at 4, eating, and wanting to go to bed by 6pm cuz its dark and cold!

Unreal! And that last picture , sorry your dentures fell out, lucky they didn't go down the hole, they could use a wash though.

I think Canadians have a great sense of humour, very akin to the English, they get irony, sarcasm and weirdness....lol.. I could speak Italian when I was 4 years old, I lived up in the Alps north west of Turin for a couple years and went to school there, like you though I no longer speakadalingo. I used to work in an Italian run restaurant 100 years ago, they made a salmon and spinach ricotta lasagne, was just thinking the other day of trying the same thing with our local fish. My job for the first year there was almost exclusively making the fresh egg pasta, mixing the semolina and durum wheat flour, cracking about 2 billion eggs, heating the brass attachments for the different types of pasta that fit into the pasta machine, man was that stuff good fresh to of the machine, just a bit of butter salt and pepper.

I'm also watching my carbs.

Hi all, Got out yesterday for a couple of hours before work. Was going to go further afield but could not be bothered and decided to stay local, was going to make a 45 minute skidoo ride up the lake but that even seemed like a chore, ended up stopping at a spot 10 minutes from the house. This spot had been good a couple of years back but seemed to slack right off last year. However, I did venture there in the fall in my boat and found crappie in the deep holes and figured I should try again on the ice. The bite was intermittent but got a limit(15) in a couple of hours which was a nice result so close to home.

Damn, that would have been plan A for me... Lol... Nice fish!

Interesting, thanks for posting, I don't do much wading, but yeah, when climbing over rocks etc, you could easily miss a step with the reader part at the bottom. I'm just waiting till next year when my benefits renew, then I'm getting a pair of decent prescription graduated bifocal polarized shades.

LOL, they weren't too upset about me cooking a smorgasbord of fresh caught fish every evening for 2 weeks...lol. My dad would eat a small fried fish every morning for breakfast too. LOL, i'll be 52 in a week, you better be 100yrs old or I aint listening to you MUM.

Hi all, Well thanks, or shall I say no thanks to GoPro this is the last video of my Antigua trip this year, the camera crapped out just as the fishing got really good. One day I am particularly upset about not capturing on video saw my little cove really come to life, I lost 5 BIG fish and landed 3 nice ones, only have cell phone footage of releasing one and a couple of pics from that day................ I did however manage to get my first visit to the cove on Video, it was a really good session too. I hooked into my biggest ever snapper, lost a couple big ones and got a few smaller fish too, which I gave to the security guard who waved me through the private land access to my spot every morning.

That is so true. I do however have a solution for that for those that wear reading glasses. The sunglasses with the reader lens built in at the bottom of the lenses are great because the magnified reading lense part is not polarized.

They cut the glare from the water too, so even if you are not needing to see the fish....after 12 hours on the water on a bright day my eyes are grateful too.

Hi all, every year we go to Antigua I hook up with a local fishing guide and guest house owner and hit the water. I met him as a paying customer but after that initial meeting we became instant friends and now we just fish together, sharing spots and info. Great to have Nick as a friend, he selflessly takes time out from his busiest season to take me out using his equipment, I make sure I bring him a few hard to come by goodies. We have a bit of an ongoing joke that we always seem to do better when not fishing together, and it was looking that way after many frustrating hours of sight fishing Tarpon, we saw lots and got them to chase but could not hook them before they got spooked. We were going home when I decided to just flip my line over the back as we puttered along back to the landing when WHAM!...fish ON!

Found this video of my son Jack playing 'ice auger' when he was 2 days short of his 1st birthday, had to share.

Jack schooled us old timers today.

I Love it there, never know what's gonna bite. Those are small tarpon, last year same spot I was hooking into 4 footers, they are insanely powerful and extremely good and leaping and spitting the hook, definitely recommend fishing for them, so cool to see the fins break the surface and cast in front of them and get an instant WHAM as soon as the lure hits the water.

Nope 1080p @60Fps,

Get the Terrova! I have the new Ulterra self deploy, love it, but very expensive and the deploy feature crapped out on the first one, replaced under warranty but I still have my 10 year old Terrova in the garage which I used as back up while the new motor was being fixed, still works like a charm! Oh, go for as much power as you can for your boat, I have a 16' Alumacraft and went from 12V to 24V, was worried the 80" shaft would be too long but it all works beautifully.

Hi all, back from the vay-k. Fishing was good but different this year. The wind was unreal, but having been here before a few times it got me excited about my mangrove spot as in years gone by these conditions turned the bay to chocolate milk and the Tarpon and Snook were on fire, only difference this year was the complete absence of any significant schools of spratt, the pelicans even looked confused by the absence of their usual feast. This scenario played out in all my spots, no baitfish in any numbers....anywhere! The wind was also from the N and NE and not it's usual ESE, which meant that despite huge swells coming in the water remained fairly clear everywhere. I only fished the bay in this video twice, as the second time I went I got nothing but small Barracuda, and with a limited amount of Berkely Ripple Shads I left it alone after that as they tend to nip just the paddle tail off rendering the bait ineffective. There was a couple of small schools of young Tarpon in there and I actually landed one this year, they move around a lot when the bait is scarce so it was difficult to get at them consistently wading the shoreline.

Lol, no doubt. Was not eaten though as there is a risk of poisoning from large predatory reef fish. I thought it was just a combination of local superstitions and religious taboos that had combined to make the Barracuda the hated fish( similar to how disdainful NW Ontarians can be about pike) but a quick search on Google a couple of years ago proved my assumptions dangerously wrong. https://www.emedicinehealth.com/wilderness_ciguatera_toxin/article_em.htm

It is, thanks to my friend here who does fly-fishing guided tours, we always hook up when I'm here and he took me for a cruise around the mangroves in his modified skiff, was a hoot going through 4' waves on basically a raft with a 4hp on it.

Yup, Antigua.

Pearl/ pink paddle tail, the beasties love them here

Don't know, was long and heavy, fight was insane, got it all on video, will post when I get back

My New PB Barracuda. .

Hi all, Holiday off to a good start, been out twice, finally landed a tarpon the first day, and lost a humungous snook too. Got a bunch of eater fish that day too. This morning I lost something huge and then managed to land this guy.