Go ahead on and eat those nasty jacks there ZM...I'm riding with Pat on the flounder and speck side of the boat!

Exactly.
Kind of like catching a big drum, it's fun for about 5 minutes then it's like fighting a garbage truck.

Jim gets a lot more snowbirds in Rockport than we do in Seadrift, and you see all the parked vehicles with Minnesota plates at the piers. Catching "catfish" and keeping them. You just go on with your bad self.

If we want to go catch something for the battle, head out to the end of the jetties and catch a tarpon. That'll scratch whatever fish battle itch you might be having.

If we're going to eat fish, I just want to put the filet knife to it, bag it up and take it home and cook it right then. If I have to do anything "special" to make it edible, it's not going to be kept. Period.

I do not understand - what it is about my opinions that gets you guys so girly - and why does it make you dis folks with Minnesota plates? No one is suggesting you be forced to fish for Jacks or eat them - I don't get it?

PS. I grew up eating sea trout (Spec's northern cousins), winter flounder (we had a summer flounder too, called a fluke, and it lays on the opposite side of its body than a flounder, and grows much larger - and tastes wonderful) and tons of blue crabs, and the facts are that they taste much better up north - noticeably so - and there is a scientific reason that they do. It is because they experience actual winters (or used to) and they put on more fat to get through the winters, and they taste much better - especially the blue crabs!

Now, don't go getting angry and throwing dishes...

Perhaps it’s your condescending manner……………..

The mirror is your friend, friend...

Texans really don’t give two dead flies about anything north of the Red River. That’s just the way it is.

Our bays are different than anywhere else
The fishing is different than anywhere else.
And yes, we can ridicule anyone catching a sack full of hardheads with a grand plan of eating those disgusting fish.

They eat mullet In Florida. I tried it, and it tasted like what you think a scum sucking fish would be. You want to eat a jack, by all means get all you want but don’t try to tell us we’re clueless. Go ahead and fill your box with skipjack gafftop and sand trout. No limits for a reason.

I am a gentleman, sir, and I never once said that you were clueless and I never starting giving you and your friends a taste of your own meds until you and they starting suggesting I was stupid for wanting to fish for Jacks, much less that they are, in fact, edible, as any YouTube search will easily prove - so get over yourself, Tex.

Now you know why I had and have no interest, whatsoever, of fishing with you, for cost or for free - but my efforts at being a gentleman about it, are over.

Zen Master, your incredible awesomeness has completely outclassed us. We mere mortals could never hope to ascend to your level of sophistication. Might I suggest that you abandon this hopeless endeavor of yours, and move on to an audience of individuals who are more capable of meeting your standards of character? I believe you’d be happier there. We’d be happier for you, too.

Jim,

Thank you for all of your kind fishing advice!

I hope that you and your family have a wonderful Holiday Season and that you catch boat-loads of fish.

Kind regards!

This is where it went off the rails...lol! Retarded.

Typically, I would ignore a post so uninformed, but the insults over Jacks started in another thread and migrated to this one, and I never inquired of anyone what their thoughts were about Jacks - I said I liked fishing for them and the put downs started.

Now find something else to be bothered by.

Probably primarily throws a spinning rod…..lol. This is Texas.

There is some good fishing all over the country. In MN if I was eating Walleye would be the target. Fishing for fun it’s Smallmouth.

Sorry pards, you slung the first shovel of dirt. Then proceeded to inform us as to how ignorant we all are, and if we weren't such classless heathens we'd be enlightened like you to the ways of the world.

And then act surprised when your clueless opinion is squished.

Try not to gloss-over the inference this time...

That exchange right there said everything there is to say about you - a know-it-all that thinks that anyone that doesn't do what he says is beneath him - and that exchange is why I rejected your fishing offers.

Done with the grade school BS.

Sorry to hurt your feelings.