Labor Day Big Lake (turners bay)
 

Left the house about 4:45 am.... get to the launch.... put boat in.... get some bait.... went and hit turners bay.... 2' waves....NOTHING ... went to east side of lake to get out of the wind..... NOTHING.... was about 9:30ish... getting aggravated.... popped open a cold one to help me think.... Went to W's spot (weirs).... 234823492659734958793845 boats.... some how, made it through.... picked up one flat... came back through still 3214987293847987593487534 boats in there.... headed over to "Moss lake"..... NOTHING...... went to the old steam engine.... 311234434534 lady feesh.... went back into turners bay.... GAME ON BABY !!!! Had all 4 of us hooked on reds.... My dad caught a NICE SPECK... 4.8Lbs... caught numerous hard heads (played hardhead baseball).... Seen a spotted gar feesh about 2' long, tried spearing it with a 2X4.... All in all we had a blast, not that many people in turners... they were all in the weirs.... lol... finished with 4 happy people, 7 reds 4 black drum 3 flats and i think 15 or so white trout and a few specks.... Oh. yeah... caught a flounder on a she dog on top.... i was shocked... :spineyes:

nice catch

looks like a mess of fish to me

ran out of zip-locks..... Had an ice bag we put them in...lol

I see you kept a gaftop....Is that good eatin'...

boy... what ?? Them things taste good.... when u catch them. cut the tip of the tail off and let them bleed out... taste like a channel cat..

throw them catfish back boy

I notice the tail is not cut on your gaftop...:smokin:

if you like them.. i know where you can go and catch them EVERY cast with a popping cork.. and some big son of b!+(#es lol

didnt think to cut it... but when i fillet'd it... there was alotta blood... i normally do it when i catch them, but someone else caught it and threw it in the box.... ehhh, its all in what you wanna do i guess...

alot of marina's have them there to eat scraps...

Nice mess!

i've actually heard the slime from the gaftop will ruin the trout if placed in the same icechest...

im not too sure of that... ??

i got ya thinkin now huh :*****:

well.... ya know.... it was in another box from the trout.... so.. i dunno.... how would it ruin them ??

Jordan.....DUDE If you want gaftop...come by Davids boat stall while im cleaning TROUT and You can catch all you want!!!! You the 1st person I ever saw keep one

i think those are hardheads W

I don't even want them bastids in my boat.......they is slimy as hell and all that slime on your line is just nasty

they jizz ya line.... put enough tony's on 'em.... you won't know the difference between them or a trout cussss !!! gaff top and hard head are different... hard heads are gross tasting feesh.... taste like a fillet of garbage no matter how you cook them !!

Oh yeah, forgot to mention.... there were a few folks at the cleaning tables before us and one guy said he caught a keeper tuna in turners bay.... UN HEARD OF.... He had a tuna.... im skeptical on where he caught it !!!!

:*****::*****:im quite familar with that game as well!!!!!!!!! you really keep them 3 horn trout(gaftops)??:eek::eek:

yessir !!! good eating, alot of tony's and alotta ketchup

Man you shoulda been at the jeeties on thursday, we must of caught 10 gafftop that went between 5 and 8 lbs. My self i wont even put them in my boat, i hang over the side and pull the hook out with pliers. Nasty,slimy suckers.

I have a friend of mine that will take all the sail cats. He usually don't keep any under 5 lbs. But he tells me you get the red out and the meat is perfectly white and very good.

it is.... cut the tail and the blood will drain out... i failed to on this trip cause someone in the back of the boat kept it and i didnt even knwo they caught it...

I eat hardheads. They ain't bad. I don't clean them sumbeotches.
There was a guy who had a camp close to Oyster Bayou and we dropped them off in
his fish basket at his dock. He would clean them and cook them for us at his camp
and we kept the good fish for home.
Gafftop are good eating too. Just not as hard to clean as Hardheads.

i want your autograph bro!!

*****... thats hardcore !!

I have worked offshore for over 25 years. When I catch a fish, I clean it and if it ain't bloody or oily, I fry that mutha and do a taste test.
I have eaten hundreds of hard heads. But I have never cleaned one.
Gafftop is even better.

nice catch jordan. glad ta see that ya posted all the gps coordinates so that everyone can find out where ya feesh!!! oh yeah, gaftop are awesum ta eat. my lil biotch knows what hes talkin bout guys, bleed em and eat em. mmmmmm good

Whatcha do about them fins? :)

:*****::*****::*****:COOK em down in a sauce!!!!

toofpiks

Some friends of my dads from Pennsylvania stayed at our camp in hackberry for about a week or so and my dad and I stopped by to see how they were doing. This nice lady says," we have been pulling the crab traps up every couple hours catching catfish out of them." My dad asks have you been eating them?" She says yes they are boney but good-- we started dying laughing and gave them a bag of trout fillets. We pan seared a fresh fillet with lemon & butter, they seemed to like it a little better.

Funny Story Though--

:*****::*****::*****:

crazy yankees

Jordan... i sure am glad you had all those people in all those boats you passed to see that nice mess o' fish!!! sounds like ya'll had a good wkend!!

not sure on what to think about that... can u break it down a little better ??? did u see me at the launch or something ?? ehhh clueless...

lol..nice fish...gaftop hahaha

watch your tone!!!!!!:smokin: