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Triple tail....supposed to be great eating fish.

Posted on 8/18/19 at 9:59 am
Posted by cypressbrake3
Member since Oct 2014
3681 posts
Posted on 8/18/19 at 9:59 am
Anybody fished much for them? Are they off the LA/MS coast?
Posted by MarlinMan
BSL
Member since Sep 2007
2533 posts
Posted on 8/18/19 at 10:14 am to
I did it a lot when I was a kid. Head out early morning in August and put a dead shrimp (large) on a hook with a weight on a 6’ leader of heavy mono under a big cork and fish under buoys and beckons, floating trash, etc. If a a blackfish is there you’ll see it (polarized sunglasses). They will eat it. If you’re lucky, you happen upon a lemon fish too. Both are great eating and don’t need much other than butter and lemon.

Good luck and be safe...
This post was edited on 8/18/19 at 10:21 am
Posted by Jack Daniel
In the bottle
Member since Feb 2013
25492 posts
Posted on 8/18/19 at 10:26 am to
We caught one a few weeks back under a floating wooden pallet
Posted by celltech1981
Member since Jul 2014
8139 posts
Posted on 8/18/19 at 10:37 am to
Caught a few in Mobile Bay a couple weeks back. Just cruised the tide lines until we saw some floating. Live shrimp under a cork
Posted by forever lsu30
Member since Nov 2005
3954 posts
Posted on 8/18/19 at 11:34 am to
Almost always catch them on grass lines.
Really fun with salt water fly rod.
Posted by speckledawg
Somewhere Salty
Member since Nov 2016
3920 posts
Posted on 8/18/19 at 12:13 pm to
Absolutely a great eating fish. We catch them over here (MS) under ANYTHING floating, but mostly crab trap floats. There's a lot of them and they get hit pretty hard over this way in recent years. That said, the biggest ones I've ever caught were out of Venice around some shallow structures.

Live shrimp under a cork and just bring it right by them. Hang on tight and get it away from the structure quick.
This post was edited on 8/18/19 at 12:15 pm
Posted by lsuson
Metairie
Member since Oct 2013
12209 posts
Posted on 8/18/19 at 12:34 pm to
I heard they catch some big ones off Venice not far out once the water gets green and little tidelines form
Posted by CarRamrod
Spurbury, VT
Member since Dec 2006
57460 posts
Posted on 8/18/19 at 12:41 pm to
quote:

We caught one a few weeks back under a floating wooden pallet
I've caught some out of a floating commercial ice chest. Had to cast into the ice chest and they bite.
Posted by TopWaterTiger
Lake Charles, LA
Member since May 2006
10213 posts
Posted on 8/18/19 at 3:06 pm to
quote:

There's a lot of them and they get hit pretty hard over this way in recent years.


Negative side effect of lower snapper limits. People are still gonna go fishing.
Posted by webstew
B-city
Member since May 2009
1267 posts
Posted on 8/18/19 at 3:21 pm to
Really like the articles that Jerald Horst writes on Louisiana fish.

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