MY "LITTLE" SNOOK

Please don't hate me everyone, I do like animals, and I think aquarium fish are really nice too,......but in addition to keeping and breeding many types of snakes, I also am an avid fisherman as well. Not many things can match the adrenaline rush of hooking into a monster fish like the one pictured here! I caught this huge 44-3/4" long Snook about ten years ago in the Intracoastal Waterway in Hollywood, Fl. on a big chunk of cut mullet. I've caught several other Snook in the size range of 36" to 42"also, and have had some monsters break-off, but this is the biggest one I have ever actually landed in my life so far. I didn't have a weight scale with me at the time,...so I used a formula that I remembered from an article in the FLORIDA SPORTSMAN that works very accurately for large fish like Tarpon as well. The formula is (LENGTH x GIRTH x GIRTH DIVIDED BY 800).....using this formula, the Snook in the photo weighed about 31 lbs.,.which is a nice Snook in anybody's book(hey, that rhymes!).........anyway, hope you like the picture ...D. Mong