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Raghorn: I have never eaten a sheephead. Are they good? Schitt, who am I kidding, my family family in Louisiana could cook a rubber boot and make it taste good. I just have never thought about keepin them when I caught em. Always threw em back. Funky teeth on the bastids though!
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The lazy do not roast any game, but the diligent feed on the riches of the hunt.
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Ingwe-- we just got back from the Middle Keys on Tues. Luckily, we missed the [bleep] that passed through Nashville last weekend and thankfully no major damage to our house. BUT, 3 days of feeshing the flats, and not a feesh caught. Wind was blowing 15-25, gusts to 30, water temp hovering at 80 degrees. Thousands of tarpon were hanging out in the channels, waiting for the flats to warm up, they like 85-87 degrees on the flats for the migrators to move up really good. Saw a few laid up fish, but b/c of the chop, we couldn't spot them until the boat was practically right on top of them. By then, the fish had seen the boat too and weren't interested in participating in our fun. We maybe had 15 shots at tarpon, all over a 100lbs, 1 shot at permit, saw 1 school of bones and few singles. Permit were off spawning, so we didn't see many of them. I can't figure out why we saw so few bones.
I guess for every "hit it out of the park" trip there are some busts too.
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OK... Maybe you don't suck quite so bad......  Or are you just tryin' to make me feel better..after watching it snow on Cinco de Mayo...and Seis de mayo for that matter.... Ingwe
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Raghorn: I have never eaten a sheephead. Are they good? Schitt, who am I kidding, my family family in Louisiana could cook a rubber boot and make it taste good. I just have never thought about keepin them when I caught em. Always threw em back. Funky teeth on the bastids though! They are quite good. I only keep the ones that are big enough to mess with (4lbs + or so). Don't ever cut into the rib cage, just walk your knive right over the top and over it. You will end up with a pretty nice cut of meat that I refer to as "sheephead shoulders." I like them on the grill but they are damn hard to beat when fried fresh after catching.
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. We would be catching them now if not for the oil spill! The oil hasn't affected the fishing one bit!!!!!!! Go catch em.......DAMN MEDIA!!!!!!! George
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Your right, the fish probably has not been affected, but all fishing east of South Pass has been closed to fishing by the LWFP. That means all of Shell Beach, Hopedale, Delacroix, and the east side in Venice is closed to all fishing!
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Good advice has been given. They are a great tasting fish, just a little harder to filet. Raghorn: I have never eaten a sheephead. Are they good? Schitt, who am I kidding, my family family in Louisiana could cook a rubber boot and make it taste good. I just have never thought about keepin them when I caught em. Always threw em back. Funky teeth on the bastids though! They are quite good. I only keep the ones that are big enough to mess with (4lbs + or so). Don't ever cut into the rib cage, just walk your knive right over the top and over it. You will end up with a pretty nice cut of meat that I refer to as "sheephead shoulders." I like them on the grill but they are damn hard to beat when fried fresh after catching.
B.C. don't matter.............Laffin!
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A few Port Sulphur, LA fish. They aren't afraid of the fly. ![[Linked Image]](http://i927.photobucket.com/albums/ad111/HuntKY/Bigreds-Copy-Copy.jpg) ![[Linked Image]](http://i927.photobucket.com/albums/ad111/HuntKY/Bigone-Copy-Copy.jpg) ![[Linked Image]](http://i927.photobucket.com/albums/ad111/HuntKY/BigRedSpots-Copy-Copy.jpg) ![[Linked Image]](http://i927.photobucket.com/albums/ad111/HuntKY/BigRed-Copy-Copy.jpg) My buddies.... Those are nice reds to pick up on a fly!!! Type of fly? ![[Linked Image]](http://i927.photobucket.com/albums/ad111/HuntKY/DoubledUp-Copy-Copy.jpg) ![[Linked Image]](http://i927.photobucket.com/albums/ad111/HuntKY/Dooubles-Copy-Copy.jpg)
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Yall seeing any of that stinkin' oil yet?
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