One of my customers is also a charter boat captain, and invited me to go fishing Saturday in Cape Coral, FL.
Got out on the water about 6:00AM (VERY tired) - cast netted a bunch of bait and set off for our "spot".
There was 3 of us, and we caught a total of 17 large Red Drum (Redfish), the biggest one was ~12lbs and 32" long. AMAZING fight, and tons of fun on small tackle. The largest you can keep is 27", 1 per person, per boat, so we kept the 3 largest < 27". I caught ~10 of the reds, but Jeff caught the whopper. (Yes, I know we broke the law pulling the snook out of the water and taking a pic - the fish was out of the water for no more than 1 minute)
My arms and legs are killing me today.
One guy Jeff caught 2 Snook, they fight like hell too. He had one hit, while we don't know what it was, the captain guesses it was a large Cobia, Tarpon, or a shark - whatever it was, it took the bait and spooled off about 50 yards of line, We started getting ready to chase it, but it snapped the line.
Amazing, since we were only in about 4' of water.
The coolest part for me was when I was reeling i one of the huge Reds, and 2 dolphins started heading straight for the boat, Jaws-style, fins out, VERY fast. The captain said that dolphins will wait for the catch to be released, then eat the tired fish. We had dolphins feeding around us, they were eating on mullet.
We pulled up to go get lunch, and Captain Mike decided to weave through some amazing mangrove areas at about 35MPH, that was cool!
All in all - an AMAZING day.
Pics:
http://ihadav8.com/gallery/FishingTrip0807
(I'm in the last pic, on the right)
If you are in central/southwest FL and want to have a killer fishing trip - look up my bud Capt. Mike.
http://www.micro-fishcharters.com/
Got out on the water about 6:00AM (VERY tired) - cast netted a bunch of bait and set off for our "spot".
There was 3 of us, and we caught a total of 17 large Red Drum (Redfish), the biggest one was ~12lbs and 32" long. AMAZING fight, and tons of fun on small tackle. The largest you can keep is 27", 1 per person, per boat, so we kept the 3 largest < 27". I caught ~10 of the reds, but Jeff caught the whopper. (Yes, I know we broke the law pulling the snook out of the water and taking a pic - the fish was out of the water for no more than 1 minute)
My arms and legs are killing me today.
One guy Jeff caught 2 Snook, they fight like hell too. He had one hit, while we don't know what it was, the captain guesses it was a large Cobia, Tarpon, or a shark - whatever it was, it took the bait and spooled off about 50 yards of line, We started getting ready to chase it, but it snapped the line.
Amazing, since we were only in about 4' of water.
The coolest part for me was when I was reeling i one of the huge Reds, and 2 dolphins started heading straight for the boat, Jaws-style, fins out, VERY fast. The captain said that dolphins will wait for the catch to be released, then eat the tired fish. We had dolphins feeding around us, they were eating on mullet.
We pulled up to go get lunch, and Captain Mike decided to weave through some amazing mangrove areas at about 35MPH, that was cool!
All in all - an AMAZING day.
Pics:
http://ihadav8.com/gallery/FishingTrip0807
(I'm in the last pic, on the right)
If you are in central/southwest FL and want to have a killer fishing trip - look up my bud Capt. Mike.
http://www.micro-fishcharters.com/