WHAT A DAY!!!!

Dani

Dani

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Today we went out snook fishing in Jupiter Inlet with Charlie Stuve (great guide btw for anyone who is looking for a snook guide). The snook were ON FIRE today. We had 50 baits and landed 45 snook! How's that for a great day?

I had two or three fish that topped 20 lbs and one snook that went above 25lbs.

We had a couple of times where we got a double hook up...this one happened to be a very nice pair...if you look closely, you'll see that a certain Stump Dancer has come back to the States from chasing snook and rooster fish in Costa Rica, while teaching the locals about shade grown crops...said he needed a new pair of tevas since he wore his out....

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We got done "early" because the snook were so voracious and ate all of our baits, so Charlie took us offshore to go see if we could catch some bonita. It was calm and flat and glassy out on the ocean. CLEAR and GREEN gorgeous water. TONS and TONS of jellyfish though. Anywho, Charlie caught us some sardines and we trolled them slowly through and around bait balls (had some dolphins steal our bait once too) and finally Steve's line went off...and he was awfully nice to let me have the fish. As soon as I took over his rod, my rod went off, though eventually the fish must've spit out the bait which sure sucks because that would've been neat to have a double hook up on bonitas. I'd never caught a bonita before (never seen a FRESH one either so had no clue how purdy they are) and heard they're GREAT fighters. Folk sure weren't lying when they said that.

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Another great day of fishing here in FL

Dani
 
Nice false albacore! They should be here in NY by the end of the month, cant wait to chase them on flyrod!
 
any pics of the 25 lb snook? I thought the thread below about hell freezing over might have been about SS coming back to the duckboats page.
 
Now THAT looks like fun!!

Nice little fishin trip with friends...and say hi to the stump jumper for me.
 
Nice false albacore! They should be here in NY by the end of the month, cant wait to chase them on flyrod!
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Do you have a picture of some of the false albacore that you catch? I've always thought that bonito and false albacore were seperate species, so just curious what your fishes look like. Thanks a lot though

Dani
 
The false albacore we catch here in NY look exactly like the fish in your photo... same fish. They range from 5-14lbs, with an average one being about 7-8lbs. They show up in late August and are here into mid October. Most guys chase them on flyrod with small epoxy flies about 2-3 inches long that look like bay anchovies.
We also catch bonito/bonita around the same time of year, but they are not as prevalent as the albies. Here is a photo of them:

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Nice Fish!!! You are really tearing them up.
Tell Steve I said hello.

Actually what we call bonita are little tunny, not true atlantic bonita. The call them False Albacore up north.
 
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pretty sure that false albacore, little tunny, and what we call a "bonito" are all the same, and are the fish that Dani is holding.

The fish in the other picture is an atlantic bonita. We don't have many here, we were elated to see one earlier this year. See the difference in stripes, the more streamlined body and the teeth. I do beleive that you get both bonita and bonito (false albi's/ little tunny) in Long island.
 
We used to catch true atlantic bonita every off Fort Walton Peir every know & then when Ifished over there. Very unusual but when they showed they were thick. Not very big, 14-20" but lots of them. Pretty good eating too.
 
Here is a link to explain the tuna species along with images:

http://www.noreast.com/tuna/tunapage2.cfm#bonito

Little tunny are False Albacore, same thing
Bonito are a different fish
 
Nice snookies.

Oh btw Has anyone ever told you that you look a little like Shirley Maclaine? Steve will read too much into that. :)

Tim
 
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I'm not arguing, shouting or anything remotely like that...
Dani asked me to post a photo of the kind of fish we get up north and I did that. Dani is holding a little tunny/false albacore as we call them here in NY. Maybe they call them something else down south....
Either way, the girl caught a darn nice fish!
 
Wow, completely apologize, I misread your first post. I agree with you 100%. In might infinite stupidity I somehow misread and thought you were saying that the fish in your photo and the fish in hers were one in the same. Thanks for putting up with me, I think the Steve photo made me want to argue with someone.
 
Wow, completely apologize, I misread your first post. I agree with you 100%. In might infinite stupidity I somehow misread and thought you were saying that the fish in your photo and the fish in hers were one in the same. Thanks for putting up with me, I think the Steve photo made me want to argue with someone.
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Sutton will do that to ya...LOL
 
The problem with the snook is on September 1st they sew thered mouths shut. Jupiter Inlet is a nice place for them. Dani if I read it right you were using greenies?
 
More nice fish Dani. What you call bonita is what we call false albacore or little tunny. As mentioned above and the picture from cgeminski shows an oceanic bonito, which, unlike your bonita, is a great tasting fish. I have to head offshore about 10-15 miles to get them here in Jersey. We usually get your bonita inshore in September, often within a mile even right on the beach. Great fish to catch. Sometimes you can chase small schools and throw spoons at them. They come up for only a mminute or two, you have to get over to them and then put the lure right in the middle of the pod of fish. If you get it right, you get a hookup every time, but if you miss by a couple of feet, nothing. Lots of fun.
 
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