Species #96 — Hardhead Catfish

Species: Hardhead Catfish (Ariopsis felis) Location: Graffiti Bridge, Pensacola, FL Date: August 1, 2017 Channel Catfish are the bane of the Freshwater Species Hunter’s existence across much of the United States and Canada, but Hardhead Catfish fill this role in the saltwater and brackish environments of the Gulf of Mexico. By day, Pinfish will ravage your bait….

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Species #93 — Pinfish

Species: Pinfish (Lagodon rhomboides) Location: Graffiti Bridge, Pensacola, FL Date: August 1, 2017 Your first specimen of a common species is exciting. Your second and third are, too. Sometime shortly after that, though, it goes downhill. Anyone who’s fished the Gulf knows the world of annoyance Pinfish can induce. As I fished a lagoon in backwater Pensacola,…

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Species #92 — Spotted Sunfish

Species: Spotted Sunfish (Lepomis punctatus) Location: Whataburger Parking Lot, Century, Florida Date: August 1, 2017 Florida is the destination fishery in the lower 48. As cool as salmon and steelhead and halibut are, it might even beat Alaska. So when I was driving back from Officer Training School in Alabama, I figured a small detour to Florida was…

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