{"id":9949,"date":"2015-03-10T11:24:10","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T15:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/?p=9949"},"modified":"2025-02-06T14:39:43","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T18:39:43","slug":"34-inch-redfish-on-our-first-seasons-trip-to-bear-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/10\/34-inch-redfish-on-our-first-seasons-trip-to-bear-island\/","title":{"rendered":"34 inch redfish on our first season&#8217;s trip to Bear Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>By Gary Rankel<\/h2>\n<p>Art and I made our first trip through Bear Island yesterday and ran into some nice reds.\u00a0 He was nearby when I hooked into a nice 34 incher and got a few photos and a short video of me playing the fish.\u00a0 Hopefully, this is the start of a great spring fishing season.<\/p>\n<p>Gary<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/34-inch-redfish-caught-near-Bear-Island-FL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9951\" src=\"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/34-inch-redfish-caught-near-Bear-Island-FL-640x640.jpg\" alt=\"34 inch redfish caught near Bear Island FL\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/34-inch-redfish-caught-near-Bear-Island-FL.jpg 640w, https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/34-inch-redfish-caught-near-Bear-Island-FL-200x200.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/fighting-a-big-redfish.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9952\" src=\"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/fighting-a-big-redfish-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"fighting a big redfish\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/fighting-a-big-redfish.jpg 640w, https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/fighting-a-big-redfish-200x150.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/unhooking-the-fish.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9953\" src=\"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/unhooking-the-fish-640x640.jpg\" alt=\"unhooking the fish\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/unhooking-the-fish.jpg 640w, https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/unhooking-the-fish-200x200.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/849QP_JNPQw?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Photography:\u00a0 Art Myjak<\/p>\n<p>Read more about <a title=\"Florida kayak fishing trip reports\" href=\"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/?s=gary+rankel\">Gary\u2019s kayak fishing trips \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Gary Rankel Art and I made our first trip through Bear Island yesterday and ran into some nice reds.\u00a0 He was nearby when I hooked into a nice 34 incher and got a few photos and a short video of me playing the fish.\u00a0 Hopefully, this is the start of a great spring fishing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/10\/34-inch-redfish-on-our-first-seasons-trip-to-bear-island\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;34 inch redfish on our first season&#8217;s trip to Bear Island&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-category"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26124,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9949\/revisions\/26124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}