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Has anyone ever went out to the middle grounds on one of the overnite "party boats"? I am trying to get a sorta cheap fishing trip to the middle grounds. thanks for any input Bait Boy

I've never been to the middlegrounds. That would be an interesting trip.

Goodmorning bait boy These middlegrounds you speak of .... where "basically speakin" are these grounds ??

From here its about 85 miles, and its approx 65 miles offshore.

According to my Mapsource, it's 88 miles from C'Belle to the first wreck and 103 miles from Saint Marks to the same point

There has been talk of a armada going deep for an overnight trip, but it hasent happened yet. Im not sure when the best time of year would be weather or fish wise but I would be interested.

I'd be interested too. But I think I'd have to be crew and not Captain: I don't think it'd be safe in the 13'er!

You can go further south of St Marks and decrease the distance.

Depending on were in the Middle Grounds ya want to fish At it's longest point it is 43 miles long and it's widest is 16 miles wide That's a bunch of fishin area

You ready, we get the no name Redneck boat out there.

Gettin out there would not be my worry It's the gettin back that would concerne me

Wevans, post a pic so we can see what yer talking about.
I don't think my bluechart software goes that far out!

Bait boy, Captain K does middle grounds trips and has a new boat. Check the guides link on this site. Also check spearboard.com, they mention several charters that do middle grounds trips. I'm not sure you'll find a cheap trip with it being close to 200 miles round trip, and moving from spot to spot....that's a lot of fuel! Big bend charters runs a one day middle grounds trip, I think it's 12 hours, 6 of that is riding.
Good luck, and let us know how the trip goes!

This is the best I can do for ya GC The Lat/Lon at the bottom of the pic is for the wreck in the center

I'd be interested in a trip out there if the seas were calm. The last time I was out there (20 yrs ago) I went on a party boat out of St. Petersburg. On the way back we got into some 15's and 20's and ralph made his presence known thorugh the boat. I even contributed to the chum line. That was the only time I had ever been sick on a boat, and I sure hope it was my last.

This is from an on-line chart so it will not show the correct depth numbers this far out, see chart 11400. The Buoy station 42036 is 106 Nautical miles N N/W of Tampa



Looks like its closer to Cedar Keys.