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SeanHHH · Posted: Sun Dec 01, 2013 5:26 pm Post subject: Water got too cold for this one

Was trying to locate a hole I had been told about a couple hundred yards off the bank from Tropic Isles this morning.

Came across this lying in the bottom in about three feet of water. It taped out at 30".

Would love to tangle with one of these guys, alive, in the Backyard.

Sorry about the upside down pic.

Kingz · Posted: Sun Dec 01, 2013 6:09 pm Post subject:

That's too bad, we ran across a fair amount of dead menhaden DOB paddling the Boathole Saturday as well...

speckled.trout · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 30 Aug 2012 Posts: 1190

Here ya go....right side up Very Happy

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That's to bad the cold got it, they have been known to live up in the channels at Tropic Isles.

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awesum · Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2013 8:14 am Post subject:

I agree ... that's a shame.

I didn't think it got that cold but I guess it did.

Blazin Cajun · Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2013 12:04 pm Post subject:

What is the bag limit for Menhaden? is this species edible?
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kayakattack · Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2013 12:37 pm Post subject:

ltorna1 · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 17 Apr 2009 Posts: 3240

And FYI tarpon and menhaden are not good to eat.
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ironmanstan · Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2013 3:49 pm Post subject:

With all due respect.....you youngbloods ain't seen nothing yet, a real deep freeze fish kill will absolutely blow your minds.
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gulfpredator1 · Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2013 7:09 pm Post subject:

Yep seen it three times in my time it can get real bad
The salt water becomes a slushy Not Good Crying or Very sad

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shallowsport · Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2013 6:47 am Post subject:

Sad seeing pictures like that, but IMS is on the money again, when it really freezes the kill is shocking. Keep in mind that we're experiencing Global Warming.

captfrankie · Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2013 12:32 pm Post subject: Winter 1983

I can remember the winter of 1983. Went to the Oso and there was a frozen slush out several hundred yards. There were dead fish floating everywhere. The next spring the back road on PINS was loaded with carcasses. Damn that was 30 years ago. I'm getting old.
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Jellyfish · Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2013 1:02 pm Post subject:

That was around Christmas of 1983. I remember it well. A few guys wading the shoreline off of SPID gathering up the stunned/dead fish in the slush. I saw the biggest trout I've ever seen floating in one of the canals on the island that day. Power went out and the only heat we had at the house was the fireplace. The temp that morning was 13 degrees. It killed most of the palm trees on ocean drive.
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manuel9622 · Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2013 1:13 pm Post subject:

Do you think they will shut fishing down? Like they did last year, or was the the year before, I already forgot. Does it have to get colder, longer, for that to happen?
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ironmanstan · Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2013 6:11 am Post subject:

You could almost walk across Baffin on the huge trout and redfish. It was almost a carpet of floating fish. The eyes freeze first and then the fish slowly float to the surface. If the gills are are nice and red....not pink the fish is good to eat. Although its against the law to take them, even though they are dead.
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