Since this wasn’t a serious fishing trip we left the dock late at 1100 hours and headed to the bait store.
Catchin’ bait. This alone was a pretty fun activity
Five year old Conner is pretty excited about his puffer (they tore us up offshore……)
Catchin’ a snack on the way out to the catchin’ grounds
First grouper for Miss Jordan
Miss Marian caught a couple
Conner is one grunt catchin’ machine!!
Tristin was pretty good too
Miss Jordan was the grouper girl (first red)
Course…. Kaitlyn caught one
On the way back we checked our stone crab traps with the kids taking turns gaffing the crab pots (had to release a lot of legal stoners as we already had maxed out our limit)
Water temperature in 10 and 26 feet was 66.9° and 68.7 ° F, respectively. There were plenty of bait pods from 12 to 25 feet offshore with a few groups of rays swimming by. Oddly the rays we saw were swimming north. We saw a fair amount of bird activity working the bait pods too.
One final note: Five kids offshore each catchin’ fish makes for one pretty busy afternoon…
Gotta love kids & fishing!!
HooYah!!
Brian
