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Things that make you jump when running a trot line
Posted on 4/19/15 at 8:14 pm
Posted on 4/19/15 at 8:14 pm
Ran into this big boy on a line today and it startled me 
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Posted on 4/19/15 at 8:19 pm to ToulatownTiger
man, that is a damn prehistoric creature for sure...where were you fishing?....
Posted on 4/19/15 at 8:20 pm to ToulatownTiger
Good eats there. Why jump? wasp nest or snake falls into the boat, jump.
75 hooks= to about 140-150lbs this morning.
75 hooks= to about 140-150lbs this morning.
Posted on 4/19/15 at 8:31 pm to ToulatownTiger
I hate an eel, had on wrap around my arm running lines
Posted on 4/19/15 at 8:47 pm to Spankum
Amite River. About 15 nm up from lake
Posted on 4/19/15 at 9:26 pm to ToulatownTiger
Wtf is that?
Posted on 4/19/15 at 9:27 pm to ToulatownTiger
I would think a dead body would startle me.
Posted on 4/19/15 at 9:30 pm to Masterag
Spoonbill Catfish.
Posted on 4/19/15 at 9:39 pm to hogdaddy
Jesus.
Posted on 4/19/15 at 10:01 pm to ToulatownTiger
I caught one of those before about a mile past bayou Barbary heading to the lake
Posted on 4/19/15 at 10:05 pm to hogdaddy
They are rare, too. Populations have taken a serious decline is what I've read.
Posted on 4/19/15 at 10:08 pm to ToulatownTiger
I've never caught one.
I don't think they hit ivory soap.
I don't think they hit ivory soap.
Posted on 4/19/15 at 10:11 pm to BZ504
Its about the third ive seen on Amite river in a year. May be coming back a bit.
Posted on 4/19/15 at 10:46 pm to ToulatownTiger
quote:
Amite River. About 15 nm up from lake
I used to see them from time to time on the Ouachita river around Monroe...
as fish says, I heart they are pretty good to eat...I wouldn't keep one though, as I hear they are endangered...
not sure why you would catch one on a trot line, as I think they are plankton feeders...
Posted on 4/19/15 at 10:53 pm to Spankum
It was hooked through the spoon not the mouth, i think it was bottom feeding and just ran into the line.
Posted on 4/19/15 at 10:53 pm to ToulatownTiger
Anytime my line gets snagged on the bottom and take some muscle to pull up, I am convinced there is a tree shaker gator down there caught on my line.
Posted on 4/19/15 at 11:07 pm to ToulatownTiger
Careful.... I think in some states they are only legal by snag line due to protection laws. Very cool though. Never seen I e on person, but my good friend who moved to Iowa loves catching them.
Posted on 4/19/15 at 11:28 pm to biohzrd
There were a bunch washed up near Pearl River and Bayou Liberty/Bayou Bonfouca in Slidell after Katrina
Posted on 4/20/15 at 12:34 am to ToulatownTiger
Snag a good many at the Ouachita river locks in Columbia. They are good to eat 
Posted on 4/20/15 at 5:32 am to ToulatownTiger
I remember when I was younger we would go crawfishing at the south farm in Ramah and I would stay at the front and fish since I didn't like crawfishing and I would see spoonbills jumping out the water in the pit by the levee.
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