my life came off of a wreck on the west coast he was about forty five inches >>That's a
big snook. >>It was a monster! ♪♪ ♪ >>There's some monsters around here too. >>Well welcome
to this episode of Addictive Fishing. We are down here in Stuart, Florida. Got my buddy
with me Captain Greg Snyder. We are gonna see what we can do. The tide has just changed
here. We are seeing the snook down here and I'm gonna go a little bit lighter on my leader
and see what happens. We've been hammering and hammering trying and cant get a hit yet,
but we're gonna try it, let me try to get a little clearer leader, I've always said
that in my seminars, if you're not getting the hits and you see the fish- >>Sometimes,
I mean the water is real clear. >>Change that leader out. >>Oh there we go! >>Aw yeah just
as I- ...you stink!
[drag sceaming] ♪♪ >>That sound's nice!
[laughing] >>Holy cow. ♪♪ ♪ >>I planned it that way Blair. >>I figured you did. >>I
planned it
[laughing] >>Good one? >>I'm on spot lock. Oh it's a decent one, it's not a monster but
it's a nice healthy snook. >>Need a hand with it? Said you gonna need a hand with it? >>Yeah
in just a second. Ah, come on baby! >>Oh that's a grown one. >>Yeah, that's a nice snook!
Don't fray me off. Get out of the trolling motor, there we go >>Come here you nice little
healthy sucker! Open up, there we go. >>Nice. I'm on spot lock. >>Just as I go to lighten
up my fluorocarbon leader. Because this water is crystal clear here. Greg ends up catching
this little dude here. Well, I wouldn't really call it a little dude. That one there made
it through twenty ten huh? >>Yeah it sure did
[laughing] >>Man that's a pretty one, look how clear he is too. >>Beautiful, healthy
fish. So nice to see that. >>what a beauty-ohh. and off he goes. Brother, good fish! Good
fish! >>Alright, yeah that's awesome. >>Well we are down here in Stuart we got Captain
Greg Snyder with us today. We're starting out basically what we always do, catch snook
on the jetty. We are gonna out and try something new a little bit later. We are gonna be hopping
around today doing a lot of different stuff that hopefully you never seen before from
Stuart. But uh, Captain Greg Snyder right here in Stuart, Florida. And a beautiful snook,
y'all stay tuned we are gonna be right back with some more Addictive Fishing on a beautiful,
almost wet day huh?
Welcome back folks, we are dodging mother nature. It's been our story all year
long trying to run away from the storms. But, where are we at now Greg? I'll let you tell
everybody because I'm gonna fish.
[laughing] We are in Stuart, Florida. Stuart is right over there and this is the
lot of fish here. If we can get them to play with us today it'd be great. >>What I find
neat in the area here is the ten cent bridge we've always thrown baitbusters. We go over
to the Roosevelt bridge which is what about three miles away from here? >>Yup right around
the corner. >>Right around the corner and we throw TerrorEyz. And what out on the jetty
and going out the inlet today we were throwing TerrorEyz and shrimp, so... I guess whatever
works where you are fishing. Oh damn I just- Got him. >>There you go. >>That's a good fish,
that's a good fish brother. That is a good one! >>Hot damn. >>Come on baby! Don't find
none of that bridge down there. >>Down there by that old bridge piling. >>This is a good
snook dude. This is a real good snook.
[laughing] >>Let's hope he stays right there. I'm gonna move out a little bit because he
is gonna decide to go probably over there. >>Like when he takes a look at you.
[laughing] Uh oh, uh oh. >>Try to keep his head turned that's a good fish. >>That's a
very good fish. He's wanting to go back I got to go to the back. Aw, don't do it dude
don't do it! Go out you got to go out! Out out out! >>I'm going out. >>I had to go slack.
He's under the bridge you got to go past that piling. >>I can't tell if he's just sitting
on the bottom now. He's got me around something. >>He's off? Mmmm! That hurts. >>That hurts,
that hurts! >>Oh gosh darn >>Oh look out now! Ok like i said, it's your birthday. >>Oh this
one wants to go that way. >>So we'll let you catch the fish today Greg. And if it's bigger
than that last one you caught I'm gonna reach down and cut the line.
[laughing] >>Where you going? >>Round and round she goes. >>Just like to see ya. >>Come
on baby let's see what you look like! Aww yeah! >>Hello! >>Hello. >>Look at that, right
in the top of the mouth. >>The baitbuster bridge Ah that's a good, gosh she is just
fat. >>That is a pretty fish. >>Just full or roe look she got damaged earlier in life
right there messed up her lateral line. >>Yup. >>Porpoise love to eat those fish. >>Woo so
do we don't we.
[laughing] >>Gah that's a nice one! Phew, good job sir! Come on you can go anytime you
want. Cause I want to catch one.
[whispering] I know it's his birthday but go down and tell somebody I need to catch
one ok?
[laughing] Good job brother! >>You got it! Well I'll tell you what I'm gonna get rigged,
y'all stay tuned we are gonna be right back with some more Addictive Fishing and birthday
boy
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brother. >>The Baitbuster bridge. That's what you need to call this one. >>Forget the ten
cent bridge. >>Forget the ten cent, it don't cost ten cent no more. >>What rod you got?
You got a seven two or seven six? >>Seven six. This is heavier than fifteen isn't it?
>>Nah it's fifteen. Well we are fishing the exact same setup then. >>These reels are great
man. The drags are good on them. They last a long time. >>Not bad for an eighty nine
dollar reel huh? >>No. >>Ughh! >>Uh oh! You get him? >>Oh he got him! You just had that
thing sitting there. Here give me that remote. I'll get it stay there stay where you're at.
>>Oh boy. >>I'm gonna follow his butt. >>This will be a team effort. Hopefully he's got
a baitbuster hanging out of his mouth when we catch him. ♪♪♪ >>How's he doing?
>>He's right here. >>Good one? >>Yeah it feels heavy. Hard to say. It's a big fish whatever
it is. >>Easy baby, easy. >>Going back around the front? >>Staying out here which I like.
>>Now why didn't mine do this? I think mine was bigger. >>Yeah?
[laughing] >>Gotta have a look at it. >>I just saw a gold flash down there about that
big. >>It's probably a huge sail cat. >>Oh god almighty! >>Ho ho ho, look at that baby!
>>Jeeses right here Greg, right here brother. >>Gotta grab that one like a tarpon.
[laughing hard] >>Oh God, look at the size of that snook >>That's a big one man. >>You
said there was some monsters here brother. >>That one, your bait fell out. That one right
there I don't hardly want lift her out of the water. Look at that fish. >>Nah you can
lift her out once. >>Ok, one time. There you go. Wow, what a fish! Right now what these
fish are doing, they stage up on the bridges it's the end of July right now what they do
they'll haul off shore and go spawn. But what they are doing right now is they are just
sitting here at the bridges staging up getting in their big packs and they move offshore
to spawn. That is a breeder and a half. I would have loved to seen that one I lost.
You know Greg I think that's the biggest snook we've shown on the show right there. >>That's
a big one buddy. >>I got to hold this one up one more time for the cameras out there.
I don't want to lift her out too much gah what a snook brother!
[laughing] Dude what a fish! >>Man. >>How's your leader? >>Oh man, it's pretty frayed.
This is that new pink Seaguar right? >>Yeah it is >>This is forty pound. It held up pretty
good. If I would have had anything less than this, I think that fish would have ate through
it. >>No doubt, I think she's about ready. Oh, I'm gonna let this one suck on my thumb
here. Make sure she goes back and is good. >>Now how old do you think that fish is Blair?
>>Uh, probably about as old as you are. Which is forty nine today!
[laughing] There she goes. >>There she goes, she's good. >>Wow brother. >>That's awesome
dude! >>You know what. Look at what that fish did to my thumb. Wow there you go. Ripped
the top of my thumb off. >>It's alright, you'll be fine. >>From a snook. Y'all stay tuned
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[laughing] Fish mad? >>All serious you know. This is fun man. >>If it ain't fun
then you better quit. ♪ What we're doing, we call it dogging the bridges. All we are
doing is throwing the bait up current and just kind of giving it a jig and what that
thing is doing is it's hopping up off of the bottom and setting right back down on the
bottom. We're not doing really big jigs with the tip of the rod it's just barely popping
it off the bottom and coming back down. And what a snook does, the water is like chocolate
they cant see anything they're feeling that with their lateral line. And like I said every
fish has got a lateral line. I've said it a million times, but the snook has the most
predominant lateral line that you can see. And they use that to feel the vibration of
that bait popping up off of the bottom. And these big snook like this Greg said they are
not gonna move more than a few inches to grab your bait when they do finally feel it and
see it. So you got to be right on their nose and hopping on it when they eat it, so...
That's the technique for the ten cent bridge. ♪ That's a fish that's a big fish.
[laughing] >>Holy cow! >>Mm ♪ >>What do you need me to do buddy? >>Uh, I don't know.
Need to do something. >>Reel down. >>Come on baby. I can normally talk when I'm fighting
fish but when I got a snook this big... Come on, stop! Stop for me! Come on let me see
you make me say oh my god like Greg's fish. >>What do we got? >>I think it's a big snookie.
I ain't seen him yet, the water is too much like chocolate milk. Come on baby lets get
a look at ya at least. Oh, ho ho ho! >>Oh my god it's my biggest snook ever! >>Oh my
god! >>Dude! >>Oh my god, oh my god. >>Oh my god dude! Dude that's a toad! You want
to see what a true mogan is guys? >>Oh my god! >>Greg get it get it get it! Happy birthday
to me! >>Oh my god!
[screaming with excitement] >>Oh my god! >>The man right here! >>I'm afraid to let go. >>Let
me see the leader. Chaffed a little. >>Dude, hold good, hold good. That's like holding
a gator brother! >>I got her. Oh my god. >>Bring her over to this side. >>I got her. >>Oh,
ho ho ho ha ha ha! >>Woo baby! That is a mogan! And a half. How big you think? >>Dude that's
pushing forty eight inches man. >>Wow! >>That's a thirty five pound fish, I mean I... >>It's
got him speechless. My god! That is my biggest snook of my life right there. >>I would love
to put a tape on it. >>No I don't have a measuring device on here let's put it up on the side
and we can go back and measure. >>Right on the Skeeter. >>From the S in Skeeter all the
way to the gas cap. Wow!
[laughing] Ok, she's going back. Go back to the deep baby and make a bunch of little ones.
Brother, that was my biggest snook to date. Thank you very much, on your birthday. >>You're
welcome man, that made my year right there. >>My birthday is in four days. >>And you're
gonna be how old? >>As old as you. >>Forty nine! And holding.
[laughing] >>If a snook that big don't make you shake. Get rid of your gear guys. ♪♪ >>You
know the debate between east coast and west coast snook has been ever since I've been
around and the east coast snook they always say is the bigger ones, but I'll tell you
what for the past fourteen years now, we just finished our fifteenth season but for fourteen
seasons on Addictive Fishing, our biggest snook came from the west coast. >>Look at
the size of this snook, this is my biggest snook of my life y'all. >>We were on Glenn
Andrews boat out of Naples we were catching these giant snook that were spawning off in
the Gulf of Mexico it was in July, the season was closed. Every snook we pulled up off of
that wreck was probably about forty two forty three inches. Somewhere around there. >>Oh
yeah, look at the head on him. I love that labrador look. >>Unbelievable! >>That was
my biggest snook up until I went fishing with Captain Greg Snyder down there in Stuart.
And Stuart is known for the biggest snook I've ever seen pictures of. That forty eight
incher that he put me on... What can I say, the largest snook that I've ever had. >>Woo
baby! That is a mogan! And a half! >>You know and the strangest thing happened. We were
done shooting the show pretty much at least we thought we were done shooting the show.
Greg had done caught that forty forty inch monster we were like 'Ah the biggest snook
on the show' >>Oh god almighty! >>Look at that baby! >>Jeeses, right here Greg. >>Gah
what a snook brother!
[laughing] >>We go back a lot of times and we shoot tips and basically I was teaching,
kind of showing how we are letting the bait sink >>And what that thing is doing is hopping
up off of the bottom and setting right back down on the bottom. We're not doing really
big jigs with the tip of the rod. It's just barely popping it up off of the bottom. >>Let
it sink, let it sink and right as I got done with the tip, the cameras dropped and boom
it hit me. Next thing I know, I'm on with the biggest snook of my life. >>That's a fish
that's a big fish!
[laughing] >>Holy cow! >>I got hit with this snook and when I went back to set the hook
you can almost tell the size of the snook just by the way he tugs back at you. >>I can
normally talk when I'm fighting a fish but when I got a snook this big... >>Y'all ever
get a chance to head down there with Greg I highly recommend it. He's one heck of a
guide. We go to him when we need a show. And he's on the largest snook right now in Florida.
>>That's a thirty five pound fish, I mean I... >>It's got him speachless. My god! That
is my biggest snook of my life, right there.