Steinhatchee/Keaton 12/6-7/07
Posted: December 10th, 2007, 2:32 pm
Took a couple of colleagues from the Carolinas for a little taste of saltwater fishing in Florida. The trout fishing has been louzy the last few weeks so I decided to go out on a charter with Capt. Brian on the Bigbendcharter on Thursday.
Neither have caught a grouper before so the goal is to change that on this trip. A couple of grouper fishing rookies:
Don was the first one to hook up.
But it was not big enough to keep:
Todd was the second to hook up,
and its a keeper.
Seas were sloppy early (see first pict) but calm down enough at around noon for the Capt. to run out to his more productive fishing holes and we proceed to wear them out (or may be it was the other way around).
One of the firetruck we brought up.
A victory shot back at the dock.
And we wrap up the trip at Fiddler.
We stayed the night at Keaton. Don left early so Todd and I went out for a little cork slinging on Friday. With very little tide movement and hardly any wind to speak off, the fishing was slow most of the day but picked up toward the late afternoon. We didnt catch the first keeper until almost 2 pm but like flipping on a switch, the bite was fast and furious at around 3.30 pm. We had our limit of mostly nice fish between 17'' - 21'' by 5.00 pm. Ran over 40 mph back to the KB channel as the sun setting behind us - cant get any better than that.
Todd with the catch:
We were fishing at around 20 miles using pinfish and frozen LY on Thursday and in 2-3' water with shrimp, pinfish and SA electric chicken on Friday.
Neither have caught a grouper before so the goal is to change that on this trip. A couple of grouper fishing rookies:
Don was the first one to hook up.
But it was not big enough to keep:
Todd was the second to hook up,
and its a keeper.
Seas were sloppy early (see first pict) but calm down enough at around noon for the Capt. to run out to his more productive fishing holes and we proceed to wear them out (or may be it was the other way around).
One of the firetruck we brought up.
A victory shot back at the dock.
And we wrap up the trip at Fiddler.
We stayed the night at Keaton. Don left early so Todd and I went out for a little cork slinging on Friday. With very little tide movement and hardly any wind to speak off, the fishing was slow most of the day but picked up toward the late afternoon. We didnt catch the first keeper until almost 2 pm but like flipping on a switch, the bite was fast and furious at around 3.30 pm. We had our limit of mostly nice fish between 17'' - 21'' by 5.00 pm. Ran over 40 mph back to the KB channel as the sun setting behind us - cant get any better than that.
Todd with the catch:
We were fishing at around 20 miles using pinfish and frozen LY on Thursday and in 2-3' water with shrimp, pinfish and SA electric chicken on Friday.
