Had an awesome time yesterday with the friends out in Sarasota Bay. Caught a bunch of keepers; 3 Flounders and 2 Snappers.
What's the best way to cook up a flounder filet? Maybe bake it in the oven in tin foil with butter?
On a side note, one of the guys caught a nice lemon shark and hooked something MUCH larger right after sunset, but the line snapped before he got it in. Whatever it was though, it was big, I don't think i've heard a line run that fast before. It circled the boat 4-5 times, the pole almost folded in half when it got in close.
We also had a little trouble just as we were about to head in around 8pm after it was dark. We had been drifting through a pass just relaxing and ended up beached on a sandbar out in the gulf during low tide. Its an odd feeling getting out of the boat a good 500+ feet from shore with water only going up to your calves. We started walking the boat out, only to get it beached further as we couldn't see which way to get off the sandbar. At the worst point, the water was no deeper than 6 inches, the boat would only move as each wave came through, so it took a long time to get it out. Took about an hour, but we eventually pushed it out. At one point, at its worst, we all decided to walk out in 4 directions from the boat and see which way led to deeper water. Its pretty darn freaky just walking towards darkness in the hope that you will eventually drop off the edge of the sandbar.
Nevertheless, we had a good time 🙂
What's the best way to cook up a flounder filet? Maybe bake it in the oven in tin foil with butter?
On a side note, one of the guys caught a nice lemon shark and hooked something MUCH larger right after sunset, but the line snapped before he got it in. Whatever it was though, it was big, I don't think i've heard a line run that fast before. It circled the boat 4-5 times, the pole almost folded in half when it got in close.
We also had a little trouble just as we were about to head in around 8pm after it was dark. We had been drifting through a pass just relaxing and ended up beached on a sandbar out in the gulf during low tide. Its an odd feeling getting out of the boat a good 500+ feet from shore with water only going up to your calves. We started walking the boat out, only to get it beached further as we couldn't see which way to get off the sandbar. At the worst point, the water was no deeper than 6 inches, the boat would only move as each wave came through, so it took a long time to get it out. Took about an hour, but we eventually pushed it out. At one point, at its worst, we all decided to walk out in 4 directions from the boat and see which way led to deeper water. Its pretty darn freaky just walking towards darkness in the hope that you will eventually drop off the edge of the sandbar.
Nevertheless, we had a good time 🙂
