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Who's going where? We plan on being at Keaton saturday. Every time I go I try to hail members on 14 but have no luck. What channel is everyone on?

16 when we do turn on a radio. The International hailing channel.

Yep 16, the only time I leave 16 is to have a conversation with whoever hailed me or I hailed, then it's back to 16

Not the weekend but I will be there tomorrow and Friday. I usually monitor channel 16. Give me a holler if you're on the water tomorrow or friday and if there's anything I can help you with.

Go get 'em HnM. Post up and tell us how you do. Don't forget the pics.

we will be at Mexico Beach Saturday and Sunday morning. Anyone plan on being that way?

Planning to take my nephew to enconfina sat...

Gonna try, maybe this will be my week.

Carrabelle offshore Fri & Sun for some of those red catfish we caught (and released) before 6/1. Also, Mike at Lanark is out of the hospital and back to work.

Will fish inshore with my son in law and a buddy of his. I guess it will be in the likely spot.

Folks from the Warrior stay on 11 so if the radios is on thats where I stay.

If you get up North hollar for WAM or What a mess if I have them dialed in I will be glad to tell you what little I know.

We will be at Keaton, holler at me on 16 Hit-N-Miss.

What a mess wrote:Will fish inshore with my son in law and a buddy of his. I guess it will be in the likely spot.

Folks from the Warrior stay on 11 so if the radios is on thats where I stay.

If you get up North hollar for WAM or What a mess if I have them dialed in I will be glad to tell you what little I know.

So, if a boat puts out a distress call and your within helping distance, you'll never know it it makes no sense to monitor any other channel than 16 "IMO" and it's not dificult to change to a working channel when you want to talk to someone

Will do. Thinking of starting later in the morning and going south. North has not been good to me lately.

Just got back from Keaton. I will post a full report tomorrow but hope some of yall who're going tomorrow will see this.

The fishing was tough the last two days, not just from us but from most of the other guys I spoke to as well. We didnt get on the water until 11 am yesterday and started catching a few fish right away but the bite was hard to come by later in the afternoon. The water temperature was 84 when we started fishing and hit 88 when we quite at around 5 pm. Today, we left the dock at 6.30 am (outgoing tide, low at 11.30 am) and the fish were bitting good right away. As like yesterday, the fishing were slower toward noon but we still getting hits until around 2 pm or so when they completely quit. The water temp was 82 in the morning and hit 87 when we quit at 3.20 pm. We were expecting the bite to be good at the time we decide to quit as the water was moving good with the incoming tide. We give up catching the last fish for our limit after not getting a bite for more than an hour of throwing choice pinfish.

So...... for those of you who are going tomorrow, I would suggest you to start early and catch your fish before the water gets too warm. The water was fairly clean but starting to have a slight stain on it at Dekal (sp?) Beach and was very stained pass Yates and north. BTW, dont forget to bring enough sunscreen and bottle water. It was almost unbearable hot out there.

I never had a radio but was given one by one of the guys that fishes the Warrior and he stayed on 11 so I did to as is the main radio at the fish camp.
I see your point and it is a good one I am sure it bears some thought. I did get it to call for help if needed and get info on conditions.
At the Warrior if there is a need or update as to trouble or weather or tide it comes on 11. If your on 16 you will never hear it.