Snook, Cocoa Pier, Florida, USA

[choco]

Fishing in Florida now:

Cocoa pier my local venue one hour drive from Disney when I now living.

Now back to the fishing: I have kitted myself up with a 9 foot Penn spinning and heavy duty Penn reel loaded with 20lb braid and a host of 17.5 cm Rapala lures and Bomber A lures. 3 foot 40lb leader

Florida Sea fishing licence required about 52 US Dollars.

Night tide under the pile-on close as possible to the surf running in and around the pier.

Snook are a game fish and have strict regulations governing their catch...

I was a luck man as mine fell inside the ''keepers'' size over 28'' but below 32''.

The fight is extreme like a massive Bass but only stronger.

I miss home but coping very well here!!

Cheers lads.

[stevief54]

nice fish well done

[JOHN1]

great looking fish, i hope it tastes as good as it looks

[choco]

I baked fillets and planning on a beer batter tonight, got 6 lovely fillets of her. Its a firm white texture, almost same as a Bass,

[plumster]

nice fish ,never seen one before, has the boby of a bass and certainly the mouth. any GT over there

[bigsod]

Nice one, id say they go well, Ive caught GTs in Australia and they are 1 strong fish but them snook look even faster

[gerryl]

great catch...would pay 50 bucks if we had fish like that on this side of the pond...

[Viper]

Lovely fish, heading there again next year, this time I might be lucky enough to get one myself