A unique website dedicated to fishing information from Florida's Northern Big Bend. This includes the area from the Econfina River west to the Apalachicola River
Use this area to post offshore fishing reports from the area. Please try to include relevant information such as:
Location, date, time, water conditions, weather conditions, baits, techniques, species caught, etc.
Left Lanark aboard the Tin Can at daylight, and watched the sunrise as we came around Dog Island.
Seas were flat rollers with about a 12 second period. Trolled to begin with and picked up 2 seabass and a lizard fish. Marked a nice ledge showing fish and anchored up. Only shorts. Then I spotted some nut in an aluminum bass boat 10 miles off Dog Island and we just had to get a picture of him. Turned out, he was a flats guy and he had just caught his first grouper. He was an ugly sucker, but he was friendly enough...
Well we left the bass boat and went deeper and found some nice bottom and ledge while trolling. Drifted over it a couple of times and landed some shorts, had a good pull on a jig, and also had a good fish rock me up. We decided to anchor on this spot and try our luck. For the next 2 hours we caught 2 dozen shorts along with one 25" gag and a couple more breakoffs. After the tide turned we went looking for more bottom, but only found shorts again. Ended up finding a killer ledge showing one HUGE fish on it (jewfish?). Got some more shorts and breakoffs there. By this time the wind had finally started to kick up, so we called it a day. Not a stellar performance by either of us today, but we got some great numbers to try out when it warms up a bit.
Last edited by Tom Keels on January 6th, 2003, 9:01 pm, edited 2 times in total.
Thamks Don and Thanks to Tom and John for the evidence of my catch I hope to get the chance ta try again soon
“Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes.”
Thanks for the pictures Tom, its nice to know you are human and don,t empty the ocean on every trip.
I do appreciate that you had the handicap of tin can, holding you back.
Better luck next time.
Nice grouper wevans, it looks in the picture, as if you were on your own.
Do you go out in the boat alone ?
I would be afraid of the safety issues, but then I have no experience of boat ownership or use.
I suppose there is always someone out there to give you a push, if the motor won,t start.
Cran, I do most of my fishin by myself, that big ol VHF antenna aint just there for looks I also carry all safty equipment including handheld and gun flares. I may be crazy, but i aint stupid
“Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes.”
Cran, I fish quite a bit by myself. My wife used to raise the same safety issues when i would go by myself. then I asked her if she thought it would be better for me to take someone with me and kill both of us. I will admit it took some getting used to, going well out in the gulf by myself. As for Weavans' trip yesterday, He's a flats fisherman, and I'm convinced he was lost.
OH sorry flats boat.
I hope to get the chance ta try again soon 
I also carry all safty equipment including handheld and gun flares. I may be crazy, but i aint stupid 
