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Me and buddy Fritz eased the Ghost Rider into the basin at about 7:30. Wind was light, temp 60, water temp 75. Headed out to first spot in 45' off Dog Island, into a head sea of about 2' chop, on top of good sized swells out of the south.
Not too bad heading into the swells, as long as I kept the speed to about 15mph. First stop no keepers, and decided that if we went slow it would be O.K. to go deeper. Went to a spot farther out, where we caught 3 nice gags and a red. The bite slowed, and we decided to head in about 12:30. The seas had not laid down much, but it was fun surfing in.

Only annoying part of the day was after anchoring offshore a really nice (maybe 26 foot) Boston Whaler walkaround circled my boat, when I was at anchor, about 75 feet from us. The guy appeared to mark my number. Then, the boat circled around and around us at anchor within a quarter of a mile, and then they anchored about 75 yds away and fished. I don't know why people need to do that, given a big gulf out there and lots of water. This was over natural bottom, not an artificial reef. I figured he would go over to my spot as soon as I left.

Of course this is not illegal, but it gives me a pain. I thought about speaking to him but decided that anyone that would do what he did wouldn't take kindly to me pointing out he was a jerk, so I just left. Sometimes these guys are armed.

Regards,

EJ

People like that know they're jerks, you don't have to tell them. Glad ya'll caught a few.

I know what you mean. I had a boat circle us yesterday offshore. When they're close enough to be able to read their boat name, something is wrong.

nice report EJ......I was out Lanark on Friday with Tom Keels and a friend of his and we did quite well with the grouper for the 2nd week in a row. We took all of our fish in 65-70 ft. using LY's, squid and a speargun! I agree with you about other boats coming up on you when you are anchored on a spot. The gulf is way big enough to not have to do this.....it's not illegal, just courteous. We went to pull up on a spot the other day and there was another boat fishing within .1 of a mile from my mark. Instead of just anchoring up and fishing anyway, I just decided to move on to another spot and waved to the other boat as we passed. We already had a nice cooler of gags so there was no need interfere with someone else trying to do the same. Glad to hear you at least caught a few nice fish.....there are definately plenty of them out of Lanark right now.

Good report EJ

I have had bad experiences with Jerks also. If I see another person within .1 of a mile then I go to the next number.

Was there much grass on the surface S. of DI?