Steinhatchee offshore. Friday, February 28 2003

Big Bend Brian · Post by **Big Bend Brian** » March 2nd, 2003, 2:42 am

Fishing with Bernie Fowler and Sanford Boye of Gainesville the plan for the day was to invite home some Steinhatchee grouper. Leaving Gainesville at 5:20 a.m. the day had an ominous start with lightening, thunder, and rain. While fueling the boat in Chiefland we watched in amazement as two women, one of them smoking a cigarette, began checking the fuel tanks with a meter stick. We were happy to get out of there. I wonder what they were thinking?

At the bottom of low tide (-0.6 ft) we launched the boat and headed out to 60 feet. On the way out it was a following sea of solid 3 footers with a few 6-foot swells mixed in. Stopping for bait in 47 feet we picked up some nice 6 to 10 inch sand perch (â€œsquirrelfishâ€

Post by **tin can** » March 2nd, 2003, 7:17 am

Brian, thanks for sharing a very informative, thorough, posetive , well written report. Sounds like a little rough, but otherwise, a good day. Thanks for all the detail you have provided in this report. However, you left out the numbers.

Post by **Second Chance** » March 5th, 2003, 6:38 pm

Brian, great report thanks for sharing. Glad to hear someone is doing something other than cleaning reels and loading line.