re: Anyone fishing the CHS Alumni Rodeo in 3 weeks?

We caught a ton of meat fish but no big ones. Spent a lot of time looking for yellowfin and just couldn't get a bite, but we're not exactly pros when it comes to tuna. Best fish we had only got 4th place in mahi. We probably could have done better from a tournament perspective if we'd focused on the categories we are actually decent at instead of caving in to the awesome weather and pushing for blue water fish. In the end tho we really use the tourney as an excuse to go fishing for a whole weekend so I'm pretty stoked with how we did. Final numbers:
21 blackfin
29 dolphin
19 mangrove snapper
8 red snapper
4 rainbow runners
Plus some other assorted garbage like a couple almaco jacks and a speckled hind, bunch of big croakers, etc.

Good job to the winners

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We did come up on this guy fishing the rock jetties by Bridgeside with large pogies pulling in some huge trout

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Talked with a guy briefly Friday that was telling us this- brother or cousin of a guy that works at SPI? May not be you- I'm sure many others saw the same guy doing what he was doing out there!

I fished the rodeo from my kayak- if you saw a yellow Pro Angler in the parking lot, that was me.

Did okay on Friday- good topwater bite early netted 12 trout, but the biggest was only 1.7ish. Biggest Red of the day was only 5lbs and no flounders seen. Saturday was a tougher bite due to that wind picking up. Got out on the water at 3am that morning- picked up a few white trout, but the biggest was only .56 Nothing would touch topwater Saturday, but I did pick up a nearly 3lb trout on a live shrimp. Couldn't find a slot red in the marsh, but did finally hook into a flounder at the end of the day- came up to the top and I saw what it was and got too excited and pulled the hook right out of its mouth trying to get him in the kayak!

Oh well. . . thought I may have had an outside chance with the white trout, as hardly anyone used to target white trout in previous years, but at least 3 others found bigger ones than I did!

Had a good time, as always though. Got two consolation prizes in the raffle too- a 70qt K2 and an AMS Bowfishing setup.

Bowfishing out of the Pro Angler? Oh yea! lol

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That was me.

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I was the one who mentioned trying the rock piles behind the island to catch some trout. Unfortunately, the wind Saturday made fishing those rock piles very difficult.

Were you able to get your boys on anything? Slow days, even hardheads can bring a smile to a young one's face!

We reef fish all the time. Jacks are easy to come by, I've never caught a rainbow runner before.

ETA: and the peanut gallery is someone who loves to eat goo?

Ended first day leading YFT (1st & 2nd), Mangrove and second in Cobia & Wahoo. Saturday could not find many trout, ended with 5-fish about 14lbs, did a little better with reds 3-fish, 18.2 lbs. Ended up with $50 & $100 gift catds, a K-2 cooler and wife won a 16 ft canoe in raffle drawing.

While watching weight-in Saturday, saw three redfish DQ'ed for being 27, odd. The 68 lb wahoo was one bad arse looking fish.

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LDWF's biologists and their methods

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We're going to nee a link.

BTW, One of the weighmasters operating the computer was a self righteous prick and he almost got his arse beat for acting like a dick.

On the LASS site:

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. Fish
must be within a 16" to 27" slot measured on a hands free board

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Thats sounds like one of the boards that are slightly tilted and you don't pinch the tails- they seem to be taking the place of just the regular Check It sticks, but cost $.

That being said, should be with the tail pinched, the red cannot touch the 27"line. Touching the line will DQ the fish.