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I finally got all of the conditions and the people on the boat to make the grouper video that Capt. Randle and I have been trying to put together for about 6 months, on Sunday. The anglers were Randle and Ed Hightower along with 2 camera people as we headed out the reef to get some pinfish. This tim...

Hey D-TOX, If you hungup in 50ft you must have been using some braided line in order to get that deep. If so, that's good news, because that means that the stretchs will work on out to 65 ft. Generally, I can troll in 50 ft with 30lb mainline and not ever hang up. They should run about 40 ft at 5 mp...

A "Pinkmouth", as I call them ,is technically called a White Grunt, but are known by many names. Ruby Lips, Key West Grunts, are a couple of other names that you will hear them called in this area. They get there nicknames from the bright orange or red colors inside thier mouths. They are ...

After greeting my customers for the day, I got Cuda"B" away from the dock about 8:00 and headed for D.I. Reef to see if the pinfish had showed up yet. With the water temp on the reef reading about 70-71 degrees, the bait was there, FINALLY! We spent about 30 min loading a couple dozen or s...

I had one of my clients from Atlanta come to town to do some fishing and the wind finally subsided enough on Sat to get them offshore to try their hand at some grouper. After getting a late start due to waiting on the tide to give me enough water to get Cuda "B" out of the canal, we headed...

BBB, It sounds like everybody is reporting the same thing lately as far as the grouper, lots of action but not many keepers respectively. On my last trip on 3/12 we caught alot of shorts, red and gag grouper but almost all of them were only short by 1/2inch or 1 inch. What's you're take on this slow...

Vitz, I Captain for a local guy, Scott Dungey, who stays pretty busy and on the road alot. They have a place their at Alligator point and keep the boat at their dock. I know it would be expensive but I think you're right about building a dock as opposed to keeping it at the Marina. Good luck on talk...

Vitz, The last I heard, the Poole family had a buyer lined up that also has another Marina over in Amelia Island. The plans supposedly include tearing down the old barn and building a new one as well as making some improvements to the ship store. Hell, I'd be glad to see them just operate with Marin...

As luck would have it, I had a group of guys want to go fishing during the week and it's a good thing being that the trend on the weekends seems to be crappy as far as the weather. We left the dock about 7:30-8:00 and proceeded out to the first stop in 52ft. With the water temp about 63-64 degrees w...

Thanks guys for the feedback. After checking all of my info sources, nobody really tore them up on Sun., especially bottom fishing. I'm thinking that all we need is for a little rise in the water temp of 5 to 7 degrees and I think the bite will be great. At every stop I was marking good bottom and f...

Like alot of ya'll, we took advantage of the great weather on Sunday. We left the Marina about 7:30, in the fog, so thick that I didn't feel comfortable rounding the point, even with radar and chartmap. By the time we made the Dog Island East marker we were greeted with flat seas and blue skies and ...

The usual pattern that most of us think happen is that the grouper move inshore as fall moves into winter and the water temp cools. And this does happen but I think that if we have a colder than usual winter, as we seem to be having this year, the grouper tend to move back out somewhat. Earlier in t...

I had the pleasure of taking one of my best clients out on an absolutely beautiful day on the gulf. After picking up Ed Hightower and his son Colin along with my good friend Capt. Randle Ledger at the marina we headed out to find some grouper before the tidal flow went flat. We came off plane in the...

A little late with the report, but here it is. Left the dock as early as the low tide would let us with a smorgasboard of dead bait in search of some winter grouper. Anglers were Capt. Randle Leger, Steve Canfield and myself. First stop in 35 ft off Dog Island, but didn't mark any fish and no bites....

Although the forecast was gloomy, I had a client with family down from Montana and they wanted to give it a try. Got to the reef to try for some live bait, no luck. After only a couple of pinners in the live well, decided to go with the frozen LY's. Headed out to 35 ft in 4ft seas, hit one of my win...