3ne2nr fishermen

[1UZFE]

Long time since ah see ah guppy...

[ryan99tt]

Yea, they are brackish but can live in fresh for periods of time...

[meccalli]

DSC_8608 by meccalli, on Flickr

Father caught this guy on sat on some cut squid that i brined. I'm finding its a great technique for keeping soft bait, including soft stuff like shrimp and herring.

[ryan99tt]

I've been brining all bait for quite ah few years now...really keeps the bait stiffer and last longer...

[kevin5211]

How yall duz brine shrimp n stuff

[meccalli]

I don't use the regular method since i don't have a blast freezer to make the most of it. Since we know expanding water within the flesh causes the destruction of tissue during the freezing process. I thought, why not try a super saturated solution? Since it can't freeze in regular freezer temps, i dissolve salt in a pan(on heat) until it can't take anymore. At that point, its a supersol, then i cool dump the fresh bait in and let it soak for a few hours in the freezer. Some I bottle with the solution, others i just ziplock em. The bait never gets hard, i throw in some aji no moto and baking soda to retain the color/shine and enhance the scent trail. I'll see if I can post up some shrimp i have brined for over 5 months currently. Only thing is, I does hardly get time to fish to try the baits on good fish.
Oh and i must stress the importance of starting with very fresh bait, bait thats a day old and lost its slime won't stay like the fresh stuff. And never let freshwater touch your bait before brining.

[ryan99tt]

We use ah special grade salt and blast freeze it...will get the name of the salt wen i get ah chance...is the salt the commercial long liners use...

[meccalli]

Yeah, i know mankee sells it, saw them fellas order by the buckets. That's the best way with a blast chiller, this diy method i adapted seems to be working pretty well though. You guys can probably try it and see how it stacks up against other prepared baits.

[ryan99tt]

Mankee also has bait scents that u can add to the bait and it increases the natural scent of the bait....really works

[meccalli]

Yeah the pro cure, that's why i added aji no moto lol, some guys add garlic as well- as you would know in the reef world how garlic apparently has some compounds that encourage fish to eat. Strange stuff lol.

[ryan99tt]

And hence the saying wen u blight put ah head of garlic in yuh pocket...lol

[meccalli]

LOL

[DrunkenMaster16]

Thinking if time permits tomorrow to take a line or 3 to Icacos... Anyone have experience fishing down there?

[kevin5211]

ryan yuh throwing dat for somebody owa.lol

[certified_dealer]

I thinkin about heading up manzan sat, it's gonna me my 1st time inshore fishing. Any quick advise,

[certified_dealer]

http://www.okumafishing.com/product/vie ... /tundra-hd

Ended up ordering this combo online.

[meccalli]

Okuma's are good budget gear. That one on the low end but it should hold up.
Doggies biting nothing too big, pushing 4lbs.
DSC_8670 by meccalli, on Flickr

[certified_dealer]

Thanks

[ryan99tt]

Mecalli, wat cam u use?

[meccalli]

nikon d5000, same cam I use all the time. The difference depends on how much time I spend in photoshop lol.

[ryan99tt]

We cud use u to do some of our shots for the tarpon thunder...lol

[meccalli]

Haha, i won't complain.

[ryan99tt]

Team done decided and uniform ordered...lol

[meccalli]

I would suspect so lol..if you need anything processed, i'm always up for retouching.

[DrunkenMaster16]

Icacos was nice yesterday.. went out late as my wingman was suffering the Holland's loss hangover. We ended up getting there around 9:30 when I was aiming to get there 8ish. Anyway after doing some work, i convinced the boat man to show us a bank... i didn't expect a redfish bank but thats what we hit. tides were wrong and it was almost 1 pm so we left after catching 7 1-2LB reds, an eel and a cro cro.




Will be heading back next week for work again, the boat man said we'll try his net next time...

[meccalli]

Nice.

[reelman]

guys any new lures we can try for rock casting or trolling...... need something new

[certified_dealer]

Went manzanilla a lot of seaweed and pressure catch 3 cat fish, and sea was very ruff

[meccalli]

^You did well if the water in manzan bad lol.

guys any new lures we can try for rock casting or trolling...... need something new

Only thing I can think of that you don't see often are hogy's. More popular for spreader bars and tarpon though.

[ryan99tt]

Was out sat practicing for the tournament...tarpon bite wasnt too hot...got one about 220-240 and one bout 100...broke one rod on the 220...so we decided to do some sight fishing an went for some cavali...met the school an got a triple hookup on poppers...one was lost...bottom fish was not there at all...too much freshwater out there rite now and cu also be the weather...