Well I got a pretty good feeling about this dock up here.
Yeah, it looks right plus I like the fact that it looks old and beat up
>>Dilapidated, that's what somebody told me.
Welcome to this episode of Addictive Fishing y'all we're fishing in Stuart with Capt.
Mark Nichols from DOA Lures and we're snook fishing today and if y'all have heard about
the situation in the Indian River Lagoon system from down here all the way up north, there's
a bad algae bloom.
We've been trying all morning to show you some fish and hooked a couple early and we
just been bouncing around, it's summertime, it's hot just got to keep bouncing from spot
to spot and see what you can come up with.
>>Keep casting.
And we're going to keep casting and see what happens.
>>Find a quality fish up here.
>>They're here, show me how Captain.
Or wait a minute maybe I can show you how.
It's a nice looking little trough right below the dock here too.
>>Yes it are.
And it don't look like that dock's been used for quite a while There's a fish!
That's a real one too brother.
That's a snook on my hook.
>>He's over there.
I know and I'm trying to get away from the- over you over you...
>>This guy.
He's so excited.
[Laughs]
>>Well who wouldn't get excited on a snook like that huh?
>>I know I'm just jealous.
>>Come on baby that's the one we've been searching for
>>Should I get out the bang stick or?
>>Aw yeah.
That's a nice fish sir.
Hold on he's coming around.
Walk on around this way mr snook Stop that come back over here you're not a giant but
you're a good one.
>>Big enough to pull back.
>>Big enough to make that lovely sound that we love so much right?
>>Yeah I guess.
That's a nice fish.
That one will definitely work.
Oh he's nice and pretty, he ain't been in this nasty water.
>>Open your mouth, come on open- shh.
Quit that.
>>Got him?
Cool beans brother.
>>Nice fish sir.
>>Can I?
Got him.
There you go right from Stuart right as the rain starts to fall on us What a beauty, here
you want to grab that shrimp out of there?
>>Yes sir Ow- How'd that feel?
>>And that's the little cotton shrimp that I like so much.
Look at that baby
>>I came up with this about five or six years ago I love glow, I love gold.
That's a nice happy fish, that's a healthy looking fish.
And that's a nice release.
Off she goes.
>>She was ready.
Got me right in the hand.
See what a snook will do to your hand right there.
>>Ew that's a good one, that's a classic gill slice huh?
>>That is a gill slice.
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>>I'm using a weedless device which is working quite effectively for me
>>Welcome back folks, we've changed positions now, we're kind of doing it old school.
This is what we used to do what eighteen years ago around?
>>Yup, it's what we started.
>>It's called the dogging the inlet.
>>Yup, dogs and Baitbusters when we started.
>>Little place called hole in the wall and there is some snook here we hope.
We heard there was at one time.
>>I got a report.
Uh oh, uh oh.
>>There's at least a sailors choice.
I think that was a nip, uh oh.
>>Watch that trolling motor or you'll really think you have one.
>>Yeah I know they do take some line in a hurry.
Talk about drag screaming rod bending.
>>Rod breaking.
Rod breaking Blair cussing television.
[Laughing] Well hopefully after eighteen years they still find this place pretty appealing.
>>Well the fish they got to come do the spawn.
Nature says come have sex and get over here and that's what they do and they're going
to keep doing it and like we've reiterated numerous times they can live in dirty water
and if there's any salt it's going to be on the bottom so we're dredging the bottom.
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>>There he is, you hit him.
You suck!
[Laughs] I'm just going to leave it spot locked here cause there really ain't nothing for
you to get tangled on is there?
>>Not really, it's not that big of fish though
>>He looked good when he hit Mr Nichols.
>>It's really a lot nicer than I thought it was.
>>Pretty fish.
Yeah it is.
>>He's a little green for this.
I'm not supposed to beat him in five seconds huh?
>>Watch that trolling motor, it's on.
>>Here we go.
>>The old spot lock is on.
[Fish thrashing] Ow.
Don't need another cut in my hand.
Oh you went to the old uh holographic huh?
>>Yes sir I did.
>>Come on mr snook we're going to show you off and let you go.
There you go.
>>That's a nice fish actually.
>>Right there on the holographic, you want to get your shrimp- oh.
>>I got it.
I do that you know it automatically falls out when I get them to the boat.
>>What a pretty fish.
>>That is a nice fish.
I appreciate you pointing that fish out to me too.
>>I told you I hooked one over there.
[Laughing] Well I'm gonna let your fish go.
>>Alright let my fish go, it's my fish, that's good.
>>Since I ain't got to feel one.
There he goes, get on out of here.
>>Get out of here before the shark finds you.
Sweet.
>>Well I think we've pounded this place about all we can pound.
I think we've pounded and we've been pounded too.
>>What do you say we head back to the ten cent bridge?
We got mother nature starting to knock on our door already.
>>Yeah get us back toward the ramp a little, sounds like a plan.
>>Sounds like a winner.
Y'all stay tuned we're going to be right back with Capt Mark Nichols right here in Stuart,
Florida.
It's made the news in the past few days but we'll talk about that at the end of the show
y'all stay tuned we'll be right back.
>>Bye, y'all come back ya hear?
[Let's go then]
>>Hahaha the ten cent bridge pays off again.
Wow.
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>>Catch a fish Mark.
>>Ok, I was starting to feel kind of confident like hey there are some fish down there...
>>Welcome back folks we're back at the world famous ten cent bridge otherwise renamed the
baitbuster bridge and we're just going to give a few casts here and see if we got anything
hanging out.
It usually holds some pretty big fish when you hook one here you know it's a big one
when you hook one here you know it's a big one.
This is where we got that forty-eight incher last year with Greg Snyder.
>>Those are slobs though.
Those are just genuinely big slobs.
>>It's so cool when you hook them though because you jerk their head one way and they pull
it back the other way and you can almost tell how big it is by the way he pulls it back
when you set the hook.
>>You hit him and there's always a brief pause.
They're like oh darnit, that's a lure.
Ok now I'm going to leave.
[Laughs] Well other than baitbusters what we're throwing today we're putting a 3/8 oz
jig head with a, what color is that one?
>>This is, oh you'd ask, Bayou Tiger.
>>Bayou Tiger and we'll see what happens.
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>>Oh you got another- That's a fish!
That's a good one you see how his head yanked
>>That's the classic where it stopped for a second that was-
>>That was awesome!
I'm gonna get you out.
Oh that's a real one there brother.
>>Get me away from this place, please hurry.
I'm going as fast as this Minn Kota will go brother.
>>It's doing good.
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[Drag screaming out]
>>Ohh, that's a grown- you said you wanted to beat my forty-eight and a half?
This could do it, he's running the right way.
>>This is an animal.
>>Oh Mark.
>>This fish has got a real mind of it's own here.
>>I'm just going to keep going back.
We'll land him out in the middle of the channel if we need to.
>>Yes sir.
What a difference one nibble makes huh?
>>Oh yeah, come on fish.
>>I'm thinking forty-nine inches.
>>No.
I'm thinking forty-eight and a quarter.
I'm going to do a U-turn here.
♪♪♪ Come on baby.
>>Coming up sir.
Might get a look here.
>>Or not.
>>Oh my God.
>>Hang on, that's a real one.
>>That's a real one brother.
>>That's a rather large fish.
>>That's a rather large fish there Mark.
>>Ready sir?
[Laughing out loud]
>>The ten cent bridge pays off again.
>>Look at that hump, wow.
>>Oh yeah it got hit?
It ain't a shabby one.
>>It ain't forty-eight but it's a nice fish.
>>Come on fish.
Ugh, ok.
Mark you want to wet the deck right there and let me lay this fish up there?
>>Sure.
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>>Alright that ought to do it.
Alright fish, up on the deck.
[Laughing] Brother that is a snook!
>>That's a beautiful fish.
Let me get out the light there.
>>And it worked the old Bayou, Bayou Tiger.
>>Talking about it about a minute and a half before it happened.
>>Grab that fish.
>>Yes sir, hi there.
She's grossly fat.
>>That is the fattest snook I've ever seen at that size.
>>She's really broad.
Let's get her back in the water here.
>>She's all yours brother, all yours.
Woo what a fish!
>>Wow
>>Up from the deep.
>>There she goes.
Swim fish swim.
She's upright and going down.
>>Woo that's what we needed right there.
[Laughing loudly]
>>She's cruising.
>>If y'all have seen the news, the St. Lucie area here has just been inundated, they're
dumping all kinds of crap out of the Okeechobee and it's the blue-green algae in here.
Fish are still here it's just really nasty water.
>>Unfortunately you know, a lot of this the smaller game fish species are going to start
stressing and then it's going to put a stress on the snook and the tarpon and everything
else too so.
>>Well the hope is all the blue-green algae gets out of here before it dies cause when
it dies it gives off all the toxins.
>>It's toxic as it can be.
>>And that will bring the fish kill so hopefully the big berthas like that will be safe and
they'll get this situation cleaned up here pretty soon.
What do you say we relocate and see if we can get another one.
Good job brother.
Y'all stay tuned we'll be right back with some more Addictive Fishing Mark Nichols and
beautiful Stuart.
Rig it Right, by Wright and McGill.
>>On today's rig it right I'm going to show you what Captain Mark and I were out there
throwing today.
Mark called me up and he said Blair you got to come down here and check this situation
out.
Okeechobee is dumping all kinds of water down here.
We've got a blue-green algae bloom like I have never seen and y'all have seen it on
the show now it's pretty nasty down there This time of year the snook start to stage
up in certain areas and we hit all the areas basically where we thought the snook would
be and sure enough they're there.
They can live in that nasty water.
But hopefully real soon something is going to be happening down there and all that clean
water that Stuart is known for, that beautiful water will be back in there and all those
fish will be happy So let's show you what we were using.
Started skipping the docks with one of my favorite baits right here it was Mark's very
first bait that he made, it was a gold one and this happens to be what I call the cotton
shrimp.
This one here has gold glitter on the bottom and it glows on the top.
Had it rigged with thirty pound test, real heavy on this because we were fishing the
docks and had to get them out, and also deep jigging the bridges and forty pound test Seaguar
fluorocarbon leader, this is the blue label it's really abrasion resistant.
So if y'all ever get a chance to make it down to the Stuart area down there, look up Captain
Mark Nichols at DOA Lures dot com.
He can put you with guides, and he's definitely got some baits that are going to work for
you.
Remember one thing though, every fishing season starts right at Dicks.
Rig it right.
by Wright and McGill.
>>Back at the ten cent.
>>Back at the ten cent home of the big slobs.
>>If we could pull of one more fat one.
>>You know there's more than one in here.
You know there's more than twenty in here.
>>See if they'll still eat a baitbuster.
Are you going to rig up a new lure or are you going to let me catch
>>I'd like to catch another fish so I think I am going to rig something else.
>>I've always said the way you're going to catch a fish is get your bait in the water.
>>I read about that too.
Was that your quote?
I knew it was somebody famous.
>>I think it was somebody famous.
[laughing]
>>Oh fish right there!
Oh son!
>>Oh you are my hero.
Can I get your autograph when this is over?
What do you want me to do sir?
>>Uh I don't know, grab the remote and see if you can figure it out.
>>It's a good fish.
Oh come on baby, don't- I'm glad I put thirty pound on these rods.
>>Where do you want me to go?
>>Just turn it off right now and crank the big motor.
>>Hold on here he comes up.
Watch it be the same one.
>>Yeah, that's alright.
We'll definitely know.
Oh that's a nice big fish sir.
>>That ain't the same one brother.
>>No that's a bigger one you dog.
[Laughing hysterically]
>>Right to you.
Got him?
>>Nope not yet, now I do.
>>Ok there's slack.
Woo!
[Laughing] Ugh, alright wet that deck again and we'll- I don't care if you wet me go ahead
Ugh- Uhh, phew.
That's a fatty!
>>That's a pig.
>>Look at that fish.
>>The old baitbuster does it again huh?
And that's the lighter one, I threw that one the light one with the orange chin.
Whoaa.
Look at that fish.
>>Awesome job sir.
>>Oh man, thank you, thank you, thank you.
>>She's been down doing spawn stuff.
[Laughing]
>>There's that labrador look Brother it don't get no better than that right there.
>>No sir, those fish are so cool.
Prehistoric.
>>They look prehistoric don't they?
She got wore out.
I was putting the heat on it.
>>Want me to start the big engine?
>>No she's starting to chew on my thumb now.
I think she's about ready.
I'm gonna send her down.
>>She was relatively cooperative.
>>Phew, Mr Nichols
>>Such a day.
>>What an awesome day.
That's two fish of a lifetime I mean of a lifetime, I know people that have snook fished
their whole lives anywhere in Florida and have never caught a snook.
>>Oh I know.
>>Who would recommend they come with?
I know my pick would be Greg Snyder
>>Greg Snyder, Ed Zyak can do a great job.
>>Well Ed too, yeah.
There's so many good guides down here.
>>There's a lot of good guys that are really respectful get a hold of you guys you can
always get a hold of us at DOA we can always recommend people as well.
>>I'm still shaking.
[Laughing] Got to love it, if I ever lose it you won't see me on fish no more.
Don't forget about the website y'all Addictive Fishing dot com if y'all ever want to come
to Stuart here.
Want to say thanks to Rufus Wakeman he's got one of the best places, I'd say the best place
to stay down here in Stuart it's called River Palm Cottages Look it up on the website, one
cool place to stay You can do weddings and parties and all kinds of stuff there.
Phew.
>>Works for me!
>>I'm glad when fish take my breath away.
We'll see y'all next week.
Yeahhh!
Awesome, cool.
Wooo!
>>Nice fish!
Check out more footage from this show by logging onto Addictive Fishing dot
com.
For outtakes and bloopers.
>>Welcome back folks, we've changed posit- Posissions.
>>But I love that dirty water.
>>Shane let me tell you never want to baker act your- Never- Shane Never baker act yoruself
beacause- Oh yeah!
They even took my shoe laces shane.
[Laughing]