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Remember every boat is a compromise. It’s not just about length. If you want to fish offshore primarily, you will want a longer boat, with a deeper-V, and higher gunnels/sides. All these features will work against you if you want to fish in shallow water. A bay boat can fish in kinda shallow water ...

I've had a 17, 19, 20, and I now have a 24. The 20 was probably the best compromise for running offshore and fishing inshore as it would float in 10in. The 24 is a lot more comfortable offshore and it drafts 13in and runs pretty skinny with the jack plate and trim tabs down but it ain't a creek boat.

John21:6 wrote: December 23rd, 2025, 5:35 pm Outstanding. I love all the pictures. What are the yellow and orange things next to your hooks? Colored weights, beads?

They are actually floats, I usually do them when I do squid but we only used shrimp this trip because all the squid ended up getting sucked out of my baitwell

Dad gum good couple days! Thanks for sharing, espically the pictures. Went to Aucilla yesterday with my 2 boys (worth the trip whether we caught anything or not). Put in at about 12:30 to have a little water. Fished in the river for about an hour and caught 3 keeper trout and a pile of shorts. Not ...

Headed out with customers with Asa Martin and waded our way through people fishing the middle of the channel again. Got to see the FJB skiff :-D

As usual a great time with Asa, even if one of my bunch had to be put in time out for all the jig heads he kept hanging on rocks. The first spot was ...

Decided to pull my boat down early for a guided trip for some customers at hit some numbers I had for west of St marks. I had originally planned on running out of mashes sands but the fish camp closing at 4 in the winter made us put in at the fort.
First had to make through the idiots in the channel ...

I'll gladly take the oak snake over wasp

Great trip and great to see an actual report instead of spam postings about counterfeit software or game currency

Vargos was good last time I got it back in the summer, I was worried they had closed last time I was down but it was a Monday.

3 man limit of reds and trout

We were at 3ft at Suwanee

Glad you got to catch some nice fish. Looks like I will have to learn how to join the GON form to see your pictures.

When you were starting out in 40 to 50 feet, what kind of bait was used to chum up grouper to the surface?


Chunks of ly cut up with live pins mixed in, I'll post the pictures ...

Went out grouper fishing with chase Norwood this week on his razor cat out of steinhatchee. The plan was to stay fairly close as the grouper had been in 40-50ft.

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We rolled up to our first drop and my fishing buddy was given a rod to flat ...

Price drop to $11500 OBO

Looks like one foot is way off the predictions for my trip Thursday so good thing it's on a cat