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So you like that one for bait size huh?
Oh yeah!
>>Okay.
[Laughs]
>>Big bait, big fish definitely applies here.
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>>So you're gonna try to exchange a yellowtail for a grouper huh?
>>The old upgrade.
Like i'm getting a new cell phone.
[Laughing]
>>Well Chris our last trip we got two shows shot in an hour this trip we got two shows
shot in two days.
Just goes to show you that it ain't always on fire all the time.
It ain't like you see on tv all the time right?
>>It is called fishing.
Not catching.
We do a lot of catching but we also do a lot of fishing.
>>Well we've done a lot of catching, trust me.
>>Fish on!
Nope.
Uh oh- Oh that is a fish.
How's he feel?
>>He ain't huge, but-
>>Like a fish?
>>Like a saltwater fish.
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>>Like a saltwater fish huh?
>>I like it when they're coming this way.
>>Yeah you get them fifteen feet up and they start embolizing they're a lot easier to get
up than that AJ was [Laughing]
>>Oh, look at that one!
>>What is that one there?
>>That's a yellowfin.
>>That's a yellowfin grouper?
What a beautiful fish.
>>Gorgeous grouper.
Get pliers on that one.
I have never seen one of these.
>>That's actually the first one I've caught myself.
>>Really!?
Look at that beautiful fish.
Unbelievable colors on them.
That is gorgeous.
>>He's almost like a black grouper just all them colors on him.
>>That is absolutely gorgeous.
So what you want to do with this guy?
>>You know what, we got a couple in the box let's let that one go.
>>Look at him in the sun.
That is the most beautiful grouper I've ever seen in my life.
>>That thing is awesome.
Like every grouper combined.
>>Here let your grouper go, you never caught one huh?
>>Yup, that's the first one I've gotten.
Let's see if he goes.
>>Off he goes.
Brother that was one beautiful fish.
That's probably the prettiest fish I think I've ever seen in my life
>>Gorgeous, that was cool.
>>I want to catch one now.
[Laughs] We're going to regroup y'all stay tuned we're going to be right back with some
more Addictive Fishing and Mr. Horseshoe right here.
That was a good fish man.
Awesome.
Beautiful fish.
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>>Come on kingfish.
He's getting nervous ain't he?
>>He just came up for a minute.
>>So what we're doing here folks is we're going along and we find the bait like this
and this is what I'm looking for on the finder that right there is what I call a boomerang
and when it looks like a boomerang like that it's usually a kingfish.
It's up above that school right there just looking for any kind of injured fish at all
but that's what you look for when you're kingfishing, a boomeraing mark on your finder and this
Humminbird shows it very very well.
And man when you hear the kingfish have showed up you got to get out here I mean what a smoking
fish to catch.
>>Usually that first push of fish you'll have a bigger concentration of them you're gonna
get them on the beach.
Early in the year the smaller ones but you know there's always bigger ones right behind
them.
>>Well I think the eight footers will do the trick I rigged them up last night with that
thirty pound Seaguar Smackdown let's see if it puts the smackdown on the kingfish.
Oh a little something something around mind, I just saw it.
That's what I caught that last one on was- Oh fish on baby!
>>Is he there still?
He ate right here.
There he is.
>>He come up and ate something else.
>>Oh aww- I had one hit mine too.
My bait just got eaten.
>>You want to put that spot lock on?
Take it out of gear Oh this one is a mad one.
I think I just felt that stinger hook hook in.
>>Slide out of the main hook and the stinger got it?
Second time when I was reeling mine in just then I got blasted again almost had a double
heads up under the boat.
>>So what do you think we got on here?
Well being as ever five minutes or so we seem to get hammered by a kingfish the last two
we had two strikes at the same time We just couldn't stick them oh he's another good one.
man we haven't caught any little ones today fish on the surface.
>>I like when you don't have to measure them you know?
>>And there he goes.
Bye, bye.
>>Eight footer is doing the trick today.
>>Yeah we talked about how that parabolic bend makes such a difference allows you to
fight the fish, tire him out.
Absorb that shock when they make those long runs
>>Yup
>>And of course when they destroy a bait.
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>>Come on lets get another look at you, there you are.
See how good you're hooked.
Yes sir that looks like a pretty good fish.
>>Heck yeah it is.
another nice kingfish.
thank you sir
>>And that's another caught fish, almost?
I thought I felt that stinger come out, I mean not the stinger the main hook.
>>Settle down buddy.
Easy.
>>Beautiful.
>>Beautiful, Tampa Bay kingfish Kingfish season is in full effect folks.
>>Hey you know one thing, the other day I'll let you let this guy go fist go ahead and
give him a good plunge
>>See you again.
>>Gonna say the other day my buddy was telling me he said some of the best sushi I've ever
had in my life was about a twenty-pound kingfish he had some Japanese fish in key west and
he goes I couldn't believe it the guy was going nuts over this kingfish and as they
were cleaning the other fish, he went up and sliced everything up put some lemon juice
on it some-
>>Wasabi?
>>Wabaso sauce yeah but uh good sushi too, kingfish smoked mainly, they're good fried.
They're kingfish.
>>That's perfect size you know that twenty-four inch fork length minimum you know just about
bigger than that up to about maybe twenty pounds.
>>And that's it.
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>>Well they're not hard to see, that whole big gray area is the snook right?
>>Yeah there are some other darker bottom patches in here so you got to be able to put
it together.
If it starts moving then that's them.
[Laughing]
>>Well everybody loves snook that's just a rock pile out here that they come hang around?
>>Uh huh, here we are the beginning of July the fish show up here every summer.
>>They come out here in July?
>>They actually come out the full moon of May so basically May, June, July, and August
those moons is when these fish spawn here.
>>On the east coast it's a little different than what these guys are doing they stage
up in the passes then shoot out.
>>I'm not sure these fish every see the mangroves.
I think these fish just travel up and down the coast out here and this is where they
live.
>>Well they're sitting right there waiting for a nice greenie to be thrown in front of
them
>>Ok let's do it.
>>I know y'all can't see it right now but there's a big gray spot what'd you say five-hundred
to a thousand snook usually?
>>Probably, yeah somewhere in that area.
>>It don't take long.
Should be right about there huh?
>>Good cast yeah, let me get out of your way.
You coming this way?
>>I'm gonna go whichever way the fish wants to go.
>>That could be a nut-whacker.
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>>Oh he just got hit I think.
Fish on baby!
Oh- uh oh!
I think it's a grown one.
>>I think it's a grown one.
>>ha ha ha!
That's it baby!
>>What we've done, we've changed spots we come back on one of Brian's rock piles here
and theres a school of snook out here that y'all just would not believe I don't know
if y'all can see them or not there's just a big giant gray spot out here and it's nothing
but snook.
Anything to eat these?
>>Yeah sharks and goliaths.
Yeah we need to get on him a little bit especially these bigger fish, I wouldn't baby them too
much.
>>I ain't trying to.
[Laughs]
>>He's just pulling hard right?
>>Yeah people that know the eight-footer this thing is bent pretty good.
Ugh-
>>That's a decent fish Blair.
He's trying to stay right there isn't he?
>>He's trying to stay with the school, here he comes.
I think this one is going to be a good one.
It's not a bad one.
Nice snookie.
>>Here I got the rod.
>>Ugh, oh yeah.
That's a pretty one baby.
>>That looks almost like a slot fish there Blair.
>>Almost.
And there we go A nice snook and they are bigger here We did a show out here with one
of my buddies that's no longer with us.
Captain Glenn Andrews it was right on this same spot catching these fish.
Beautiful snook.
Absolutely beautiful.
Get on out of here.
They're still here brother.
Let's get another one.
>>That was first cast.
Here you go, here's your weapon.
Rig it right, by Wright and McGill.
>>On today's rig it right folks I'm going to show you a couple of rods that I think
might be the only two you need in your whole line up.
This is the eight foot model this is the Flats Blue inshore model and it's one of the most
versatile rods.
You've seen it catch snook you've seen it catch tarpon and you've seen it catch a lot
of different fish throughout the years on Addictive Fishing.
A four-thousand size reel this one has rigged with thirty-pound test Seaguar Smackdown and
a lot of the time it's just forty pound test fluorocarbon leader that i'm using.
that i'm using.
If you want to know each individual rig it right and exactly what I was using make sure
you go back to our youtube sites and check out the rig it rights from there.
another rod I want to show you, and you're going to see this one here in action.
You saw it in the first part of the show when Capt Chris caught that yellowfin grouper,
but this one here we gave it a workout This is the five-six jigging stick it's a conventional.
Now this one here has a gimbal on it you can lock it in to a belt if you need to, locks
into your rod holder and it's just a very powerful rod I think you could actually lift
a Volkswagen off the bottom with this.
But definitely gets the job done with some big fish remember one thing though, every
fishing season starts at Dick's.
Now up next we went down to Key Largo to fish with Capt. Tony Melton we did a show with
him last year where he hooked into a monster fish and this year I happened to have the
pleasure of it we caught permit, we caught tripletail we caught a ton of fish down there,
but this is one you didn't get to see on the show.
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>>Something out out there.
I have to get down to the bottom huh?
>>Yup as soon as you put it down on the bottom they eat it.
>>Okay.
Uh oh, we got something on the big rod.
>>Grouper, grouper.
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>>Mystery fish in the middle of Florida Bay This is the middle of Florida Bay isn't it?
>>Uh we're in the Gulf of Mexico.
Officially in the Gulf of Mexico.
>>I think we got a mogan.
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>>You got that belt there yet Tony?
>>I'm looking for it buddy.
>>I might not need it now.
♪♪♪ I don't need it I don't think.
Let's see how big he is.
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>>There he is
>>It's a nurse shark.
[Laughing] That is a huge nurse shark.
>>Big ass nurse shark.
>>Right color, wrong species.
But gah what a nurse shark.
>>You know how you can tell they're a nurse shark right?
She's wearing her uniform.
[Laughs]
>>Man what a beast.
That is a lobster eating machine right there isn't it?
>>That is, that thing will consume a bunch of lobsters.
Oh well, is that de-hooker there?
>>Yeah let's see where that thing went.
>>What a fish.
>>You know, I cant tell you how many times I've caught a nurse shark and before you get
him up you think it's a great big goliath grouper and this was like no other time.
We both thought it was a grouper when it came up until you see that great big shark body
on it a lot of fun to catch but kind of a disappointment when you think it's something
else.
when you think it's something else.
Don't forget about our website Addictive Fishing dot com we have a tackle shop so everything
that I use on the show you're going to be able to get right from the tackle shop now
great new tackle store.
That about wraps it up, hope you enjoyed today's show called bits and bites and we'll see y'all
next week.
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>>Check out more footage from this show by logging onto Addictive Fishing dot com for
outtakes and bloopers
>>I got a dollar, I got a dollar- Oh I got a big dollar.
Ate about everything but the hook.
Agh!
Well you know if it's an amberjack one of the camera guys is gonna get to fight a fish
today.
By crikey it's a big female you can tell it's a nurse shark.