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Sinker · Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2018 4:49 pm Post subject: Something has changed in the surf

I fished SBH yesterday and from the pier today.
Big news is NO hardheads for two days. Only Whiting were caught.
Sorry for the bad news Donnie.

Donnie

landlocked beachbum · Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2018 4:54 pm Post subject:

When it come to hardheads, I could give you a run for your money....

I have a few trips to Destin and Orange Beach where I caught almost NOTHING BUT world class hardheads and a few Gaftop, and this is on live Pinfish! I'm talking HH's in the 3-3.5 pound class!!!! Shocked

The many times that I have lived and/or visited down there, hardheads were at LEAST 75-90% of what we caught on most outings (dead shrimp), and more than a few outings were 100% HH's!!!👎 Rolling Eyes

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Donnie · Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2018 6:14 pm Post subject:

Lol, I understand catching those nasty things on dead shrimp, but when you go and buy nice big fat live mullet , and then catch a hard head who has swallowed one of them.

Did you see the video clip of the huge school of hardheads around the first lights on bhp. It was sick - look like the water version of the Walking Dead.
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landlocked beachbum · Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2018 7:57 am Post subject:

Didn't see that, but I have witnessed huge schools of HH's at the transoms of party boats when the fish cleaning starts. I was amazed..... I had no idea they got so large! Some were an easy 30" long, and there were SCADS of them, and it was "take no prisoners"!!! Shocked

Also, these were NOT gaftops, just your typical, run of the mill, but VERY well fed HH's! Cool

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Donnie · Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2018 12:28 pm Post subject:

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GoSpursGo · Finger Mullet Joined: 08 May 2017 Posts: 20

I remember a school of hh's in Port O one night. This guy thought he was a genius and would throw a cast net on them. He obviously didn't think they were hh's. One of the local guides told him not to but he did it anyway. He brought the net up full of hh's. He ended up just throwing the net full of hh's right in the trash. Surprised

Dirtylove · Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2018 10:18 am Post subject:

I read an article (I think it was linked in a thread on this board) about eating HHs. It was by a biologist who IIRC wrote his graduate thesis on the topic. As it turns out, they are not full of bacteria, and are actually, according to this guy's blind taste tests, quite decent table fare. I was impressed by the article. I have yet to eat a HH. An old business partner of mine caught a bunch of them and didn't know any better so he cleaned and cooked them. He said they were very good to eat. I took him at his word.

My best friend's grandfather didn't think much of black drum. Considered them junk fish and threw them back. I can't get over a lifetime of hating HHs.

Donnie · Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2018 3:42 pm Post subject:

lifeaquatic · Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2018 5:42 pm Post subject:

An article to fuel the fire....

Behold the Humble Hardhead

http://www.louisianasportsman.com/details.php?id=2009

Personally, like the vast majority, I have never tried one.