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I went offshore fishing yesterday out of Carrabelle with three goals--put my friends on red grouper, figure out how to use my new ike jime tools, and take underwater videos. We accomplished the first goal. My friends put a few nice red grouper in the cooler and we released a few large red snapper, t...

I've never seen cats playing with a fiddler crab before. Great picture.

Great analysis.

Please see if you can forward your analysis to FWC staff or their elected superiors who might care more than FWC staff.

I spoke with my friend who attends these meetings. He said the Fed's are recalculating and reassessing their catch data as it is obviously flawed on the recreational side. The commercial side is within their catch quota and won't be affected. So.....what that means to the 2024 season......to be det...

It’s not surprising. The regulators have a habit underestimating fish in the water and overestimating fish catch rates.


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This is a great post, but I’m still not ready to try a bonito.


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boomhauer wrote:For better size and numbers of sea bass, there can’t be any big gags around…. Or really any gag grouper.
We dive and see it over and over…. Look for hard bottom areas with no more than 1 ft relief

Thanks for the tip.


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That’s a very gaudy pile of fish. Great report.

Good pulls even if the grouper were out of season, I ran off shore to dog Ballard out of ecofina last weekend looking for grunts and some good black seabass to be disappointed with short black seabass and a bunch of sand perch. Sent from my Pixel 8 Pro using Tapatalk It’s always satisfying to catch...

Nice report. It looks like you had a great day on the water. You must have found them in fairly shallow water, no evidence of barotrauma in those pics. :thumbup: :thumbup: Thanks for reading and for the feedback. We were fishing in depths between 85 and 95 feet, but most of our fish were caught in ...

Friday was the last day of the Florida Gulf of Mexico recreational red snapper season with nice weather. So we picked up the boat from Martin Marine in Carrabelle and headed out. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20231130/bf6ba5a1227888681dd64257497aeb9a.jpg https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20231130/...

That's really cool. Great report and great pix. What kind of underwater camera do you use? https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20231116/f70a0b1067a7ddda25792c7448a925d3.jpg I use a $40 knock-off GoPro camera from Amazon. The advertisement for the camera indicates that it is waterproof to 40 meters or ...

Last Friday, the four of us on the boat needed to limit out on red snapper when we fished out of Carrabelle. My freezer at home was empty of fish. Because the seasons had been so limited in the past, I wasn’t really sure where the fish would be in November, but I figured the fish would be in shallow...

I don't think sensible fishing regulations can exist if NOAA Fisheries is underestimating fish populations and overestimating catch rates. See Bob McNally, OutdoorLife, NOAA Says It Has Been Overestimating Recreational Saltwater Catch By 30 to 40 Percent (Sept. 14, 2023), https://www.outdoorlife.com...

Get well soon so you can feel even better by catching some fish.