Couldn't Believe The GIANTS In This Tiny South Florida Pond!

Good morning. It is an unusually chilly, blustery day here in South Florida. We're here on Marco Island. Got a couple more days left here before we leave. And uh today we're going to do some landbased fishing. Uh we're going to fish this morning at a kind of a secret unknown spot to a lot of people. but it's supposed to hold a lot of giant fish. We've got a bunch of live pinfish in there. We're just one rod, uh, a hook and bait. Keeping it really simple. And then later on today, uh, we're going to go do a little island hopping. So, uh, hopefully we can get into some big fish and, uh, have a successful day. So, I'm going to get the first bait out and, uh, we'll get fishing. All right, got a little lively pin fish here. Drags good. Let's kind of get him out off this little point. Let him swim around. See what happens. All right, let's get over to that other side. Nothing was happening in this spot. Woo! It is breezy today. Today I'm using a 8ft toadfish rod with a Pin Authority 2500 with 20 lb Delta braid, which is a new braid I'm trying out that I love. Okay, here we go. There's the snook right there. All right, here we go. Got him. Oh, that's decent. That's decent. Make sure my drag's not too tight. I only got 20 lb test on uh so I can't really be really aggressive with these snook. Since I'm using such a light leader today, I can't really put a lot of heat on these snook. The abrasive mouths when you get a lot of tension on the line will just cut right through 20 lb floor carbon. So, you got to kind of take it easy and ease them in. Getting tired. Uhoh. Gosh dog it. Hook pulled right there. Yep. He frayed me up good, too. Ah. Gosh dogg it. All right. That's a good start to the morning, though. This wind actually will work to our advantage. We can get closer to the water than we would if it was a glass flat day. Kind of blocks the view of the snook from seeing the snook are very wary and they got great eyesight. When I'm bank fishing, I like to hook these in the tail because that way they swim away from you and anytime you tug on them by the tail, they try to run away. Got them. So, I'm freelining these pin fish, which means I'm letting them swim without a weight, and I'm letting the snook grab the fish and take off and run a little bit with it. Since I'm using a circle hook, I don't have to set the hook. All I have to do is close the bail and let the line go tight and the hook sets itself. It's decent. Ah, come on. All right. All right, guys. First snook of the morning. Little skinny guy, but uh I'll take it. He's decent size. 20 some inches. So, we're going to let him go. Get him back in the water. Go look for some bigger ones. He's gone. Nice hook set. Corner of the mouth. You don't have to have a big hook to catch these guys. All right. All right. We're on. Got him. Oh, that's a good one. Oh, fudge. My hook pull. Hook just pulled. Gosh dog. It need to retie anyway. Let's retie. Dang it. There we go. Oh, did he swim into something? Damn it. Oh, what did he go into? God dang it. Oh, that was a good one. Guess I let him eat. No, I didn't let him eat too long. I don't know what he did there. There must been a log or cave or something. Cave. Must have been a log or a He swam into something. Might be a ledge down there. All right. Think he's getting chased. Okay, we're on. Oh boy. Oh, that's a good one. A little pressure on him. Come on, stay buckled. Keeps coming this way. Oh boy, this is a big boy. This is a good one, guys. He's got a couple more runs left in him, though. I'm not tightening the drag up. He's coming in. Coming in. Oh, no. No. Oh, yeah. Golly, it's nice and easy. I got him right here. Oh man. Not going to horse them. No way. This thing's This is a good one. Oh my gosh. Oh yeah. Very big boy. That's a nice one. Get him up here nice and easy. Yes. >> Nice. >> Thanks. >> Yes, sir. All right, guys. We caught a beauty here. Look at that. Uh probably 30, low 30s, but fat, healthy. Let's go catch some more. He had a hard fight there. Come on, buddy. Go. There we go. Oh, boy. Here we go. All right. Oh, yeah. Good jump. Whoa. Mediumsized snook can be so acrobatic. All right, let's go. Come on. Come in. Come in. Come on. Not as big. Oh no, his raptor on his gill. Okay, there we got him. Not as big. more of the long skinny ones. All right, got him. There we go. All right, got you, buddy. All right, guys. Another decent one out of here. Not bad. He's feisty. He's He's ready to go. Yep, he's gone. All right, we still got about six baits left alive. Then after that, we'll drop some dead. Already caught one on dead bait, so Yeah, we're on meat. Meat. Whoa, another good one. Oh, fatty. I feel a little more confident. And Oh, yeah. Feel a little more confident. Since we got the 30 lb on. It's a fat one. This is a nice one. Same thing. Not going to horse him. It's doing a lot of head shakes. I want him to fray that leader too bad. This one's going to take a while. I love this pin authority. Drag is so smooth. Oh, he's coming. Is he coming up? There he is. There he Oh, yeah. That's a beauty. Another nice fat one. hook out of the way. Let's get him gripped. All right. All right, guys. Another pretty pond snook. Good size. This would be close to a slot if they were in season, but we're going to let him go. Get another bait out. There we go. All right, we're on. Got him. All right. Oh, another good one. Oh, maybe he's not that big. Wow, this guy didn't even fight. That's And I got my bait back. Sweet. All right, let me throw my bait out. Wow, this little skinny guy barely fought. It's all right. He'll go. There he goes. Sweet. Get to reuse my bait. I'm on again. On again. On again. This one's bigger. He doesn't know he's hooked yet. Oh yeah, this is a good one. This guy ain't fighting either. Oh, did he pull? Nope. He Yep. Dang it. Pulled. See if I can hook three on this bait. Got to be a snook. Oh yeah. Oh boy. This a good one. Oh yeah. This might be the biggest one of the day. Oh, come on. No, not the biggest. Just a fighter. Jeez, that guy fought twice his size. See if it'll let me get that out. All right. All right, guys. Another nice fat pond snook. We'll keep going till we run out of bait. All right. Come on. Get my rod. We'll pro him into taking off. There we go. Now he's getting ready. Come on. There we go. There he goes. Oh, that's a good one. Come on. I hope my camera doesn't die, guys. Oh, let's throw them one more. Let's throw him right back out there. Maybe he'll eat it. Maybe he'll eat it. All right, guys. That's going to do it for this part. We're going to load up, head back to the house, eat some lunch, and then we're going to head out to the islands. So, uh, I'll see you guys here in a little while and hopefully catching some more big fish. >> All right, guys. We're out with treasure seekers today. >> Uh this is kind of a joint trip. I've been fishing so much I had to let Michelle do something. So she's going to go sea shelling today. And while she's doing that, I'm going to be walking the beach throwing some live pin fish. See what we can find. So uh we're going to head over to the islands and get started. You can find Treasure Seekers on Facebook and also on their website treasuresheltours.com. All right, guys. We're here. We got a trough running right through here. So, we're going to cast out here. We got the tide's just starting to come in. So, my plan here is to take that pin fish, free it, throw it out into that trough where the current will pick it up and sweep it down like a fish just caught up in the regular current. All right, let's see what happens. Got the wind at our back. Woo! Got a good one. Hey, Michelle. I'm thinking this is a trout. Not pulling drag. He is going with the current though. So, pretty sure this is a trout. Got a lot of grass on them. Is that a red fish putting up a good fight? Whatever it is, is that a shark? Surely that's not a shark. Nice red fish. Pretty red fish. Look at that. Oh, come here. Hey, Michelle. Michelle, first cast. >> All right. >> Uh, he's I'm just going to cut it so he doesn't die. If I try and get that out, he's going to die. All right. All right. First cast, first fish. Let's watch him go. Come on. There we go. He gone. >> So, we headed off to the next spot, which I can say is one of the coolest and most beautiful spots that I fished on this whole trip. The view there was amazing. All right, guys. You see we got a little pass right here. Uh, water's flowing through and there's about a eight foot drop off out there. So, I'm just going to let this pinfish just drift naturally all the way back and hopefully we can hook into something tarpon. Numerous times I had tarpon roll right in front of me. Get out. Tarpon are rolling right here. Seen two. >> Seen two tarpon roll. >> Hadn't had any bites, but looks like they're hitting the little little bitty minnows. So, I decided to change up tactics and instead of freeling the bait, I rigged up a Carolina rig with a long leader and an egg sinker. I thought I might have a better chance of hooking a snook or a red fish on bottom by letting this bait drift along with the current along the bottom. All right, let's get out on the bottom here. And it didn't take long for the switch to pay off. All right. Whoa. Oh, >> hook pulled. There we go. That ain't a catfish. That's a snook. Maybe it's not That's got to be a snook. This is big. Whatever it is, guys. Thing is a big Red. Yeah. Nice red fish. All right. A red with a raora. decent little guy. All right. All right, guys. Our second red fish of the day. Nice guy. Pretty. They're so light up here. >> Real pretty. Thought he was a snook at first. >> Doing all those head shakes. >> Thanks. All right, guys. >> Let this guy go. >> He's ready. >> He's ready. They must have found some shells over there. >> They're on it. >> Spot. I hope you guys enjoyed the video and go ahead and check out Treasure Seekers. They have shell tours. They also do a combination of shell and a fishing tour where you fish from the boat after they dropped the shellers off. The boat was great. The guide and the captain were great. Uh, I can't recommend them highly enough. So, go check them out. Don't forget, if you're not subscribed, hit the subscribe button. Ring the bell so you get notifications when I put out a new video. It tight lines, everybody.