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Just wanted to share this funny story with everyone! I really got a chuckle out of it!
Neither Ed nor I have ever fished from jetties (piers yes) before but after reading Brewjr’s report about the Freeport jetties this past week we decided to make the trip to Freeport for a little bit of evening fishing and the possibility of catching some nice ribbon fish for offshore POC. We not only had a great time but caught plenty of ribbon fish! LOL!
At one point in the evening, I decided to take a walk further down the jetty to see what everyone else was catching. As I was walking, the group in front of me caught a ribbon fish so I stopped and asked if they didn’t want it, could I have it. The fellow politely told me that he had already promised all his ribbon fish to the oriental group fishing next to them. We exchanged a bit more fishing conversation and I went on down the jetty. I won’t go into detail about the group at the end of the jetty but I can say I hung out with them observing and talking for the next 30 minutes or so. I will say that they had the jetty thing down and were the only people catching fish other than ribbon fish on the jetties! I’m talkin big trout and lots of break offs from bigger fish! Their techniques totally blew my mind!
Although I could have hung out with them the rest of the evening, I decided I’d better get back to fishing and started the long walk back down the jetties. As I was passing the man who was giving his ribbon fish to the oriental crew, he stopped me with the question “Excuse me but, well ah, how do you cook up those ribbon fish anyway� I really had to hold back an explosion of laughter! I was polite and explained we use them for bait. LOL!
So what do you guys think, fillet and fried, pan broiled?
Brewjr, if you want to hear about the guys on the end of the jetties give me a call at (281) 392-4145.
Neither Ed nor I have ever fished from jetties (piers yes) before but after reading Brewjr’s report about the Freeport jetties this past week we decided to make the trip to Freeport for a little bit of evening fishing and the possibility of catching some nice ribbon fish for offshore POC. We not only had a great time but caught plenty of ribbon fish! LOL!
At one point in the evening, I decided to take a walk further down the jetty to see what everyone else was catching. As I was walking, the group in front of me caught a ribbon fish so I stopped and asked if they didn’t want it, could I have it. The fellow politely told me that he had already promised all his ribbon fish to the oriental group fishing next to them. We exchanged a bit more fishing conversation and I went on down the jetty. I won’t go into detail about the group at the end of the jetty but I can say I hung out with them observing and talking for the next 30 minutes or so. I will say that they had the jetty thing down and were the only people catching fish other than ribbon fish on the jetties! I’m talkin big trout and lots of break offs from bigger fish! Their techniques totally blew my mind!
Although I could have hung out with them the rest of the evening, I decided I’d better get back to fishing and started the long walk back down the jetties. As I was passing the man who was giving his ribbon fish to the oriental crew, he stopped me with the question “Excuse me but, well ah, how do you cook up those ribbon fish anyway� I really had to hold back an explosion of laughter! I was polite and explained we use them for bait. LOL!
So what do you guys think, fillet and fried, pan broiled?
Brewjr, if you want to hear about the guys on the end of the jetties give me a call at (281) 392-4145.
