My Fishing Trip (long Post)
10-20-2003, 09:08 AM
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My dad recently got a new boat, I think it's a 22' SportCraft boat, and he's been wanting to have a successful trip with it. So he took my wife and I out for some grouper fishing. This was my wife's first fishing trip away from shore.
We caught pinfish for bait, and we decided to head to a spot 14 miles away, where we previously (several months ago) caught 2 fish before being chased away by a storm. Sunday was a clear day, yet quite windy. It was extremely rough going out, with seas at about 3-4 feet, and very choppy. We stopped several times, wondering if we should head back. Being the dumbasses that we are, my dad and I decided to keep going. It took us about 90 minutes to get where we were going, and getting there really sucked. We were wet and cold from the water splashing over the edge.
Feeling slightly ill, my dad wanted to get a line in the water as soon as possible. He hooked a pinfish on his line, and dropped it to the bottom ~34 ft down. Within 5 seconds, he had a legal grouper. It was like that all day, catching them as soon as we could put our lines down. We ended up with 11 keepers, mostly red but some gag. On the return trip, the water was flat, and that boat can really cruise nicely! We all had a blast, and my wife loved it, as she was catching most of the fish.
11 grouper, 20-22 inches each, =lots of white boneless meat!
We caught pinfish for bait, and we decided to head to a spot 14 miles away, where we previously (several months ago) caught 2 fish before being chased away by a storm. Sunday was a clear day, yet quite windy. It was extremely rough going out, with seas at about 3-4 feet, and very choppy. We stopped several times, wondering if we should head back. Being the dumbasses that we are, my dad and I decided to keep going. It took us about 90 minutes to get where we were going, and getting there really sucked. We were wet and cold from the water splashing over the edge.
Feeling slightly ill, my dad wanted to get a line in the water as soon as possible. He hooked a pinfish on his line, and dropped it to the bottom ~34 ft down. Within 5 seconds, he had a legal grouper. It was like that all day, catching them as soon as we could put our lines down. We ended up with 11 keepers, mostly red but some gag. On the return trip, the water was flat, and that boat can really cruise nicely! We all had a blast, and my wife loved it, as she was catching most of the fish.
11 grouper, 20-22 inches each, =lots of white boneless meat!
10-20-2003, 11:53 AM
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Sounds like a hell of a good day on the water.
Although if you are getting sick in 3 to 4 feet rollers you need to get your sea legs LOL and yea, boats always go slow in the rough water, I am about 30 miles an hour in calm rollers and about 11 in 2 to 5 foot seas.
Although if you are getting sick in 3 to 4 feet rollers you need to get your sea legs LOL and yea, boats always go slow in the rough water, I am about 30 miles an hour in calm rollers and about 11 in 2 to 5 foot seas.
10-20-2003, 12:23 PM
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Originally Posted by phinsup' date='Oct 20 2003, 12:53 PM
Sounds like a hell of a good day on the water.
Although if you are getting sick in 3 to 4 feet rollers you need to get your sea legs LOL and yea, boats always go slow in the rough water, I am about 30 miles an hour in calm rollers and about 11 in 2 to 5 foot seas.
Although if you are getting sick in 3 to 4 feet rollers you need to get your sea legs LOL and yea, boats always go slow in the rough water, I am about 30 miles an hour in calm rollers and about 11 in 2 to 5 foot seas.
10-20-2003, 12:32 PM
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Originally Posted by phinsup' date='Oct 20 2003, 01:25 PM
Does the dramamine actually work for him? That's good, I have seen a lot of people that it don't do ****.
High sees just make me sleepy, if I ain't driving I take a nap LOL
High sees just make me sleepy, if I ain't driving I take a nap LOL
My dad says it works for him, he takes the non-drowsy kind. Whether or not it's all in his head, I guess it doesn't matter, as long as it works.
He also said that catching big fish cures his sea-sickness. go figure.
10-20-2003, 12:34 PM
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i went fishing down here ft myers like a couple weeks ago...we took a deep seas charter boat and my wife won the pot. yeah 23 inch red grouper...lol that was some good eating. of course it was the only grouper our party or12 caught. lots of red snapper though. black grouper is way better though. try finding some of that
10-20-2003, 01:17 PM
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I don't think I've heard of any black grouper around here...let me check...
black grouper...commonly found on reefs off of southern florida (I work for FWC, and we have all these fish posters in our offices)
black grouper...commonly found on reefs off of southern florida (I work for FWC, and we have all these fish posters in our offices)
10-20-2003, 01:32 PM
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My dad has a boat. 26 or 27' sportfishing boat center console 150 outboard. Its pretty sweet.
I have caught more fish from the age of 8 years old intil 17 years old than most of you will catch in a lifetime. We were pretty hard off when I was younger my dad has this p.o.s. boat we would go out in to fish for flounder in the great south bay of Long Island. He had this killer hole that we would get over and pull them out of. We would catch from 50 to 100 fist in a single outing. Sometimes we would leave the fish on the line until a boat passed so they would not figure out we had a hot spot.
So basically I am burned out on fishing and ate so much fist I could go the rest of my life without eating any and not miss it.
I laughed at the part when you were second guessing whether or not to turn back. We did that so many times.
My dad gets motion sickness something terrible. He ever gets himself sick Autocrossing his FD!! LOL!! Poor guy. You should see him on a boat.
He is the chum master of the vessel.
I have caught more fish from the age of 8 years old intil 17 years old than most of you will catch in a lifetime. We were pretty hard off when I was younger my dad has this p.o.s. boat we would go out in to fish for flounder in the great south bay of Long Island. He had this killer hole that we would get over and pull them out of. We would catch from 50 to 100 fist in a single outing. Sometimes we would leave the fish on the line until a boat passed so they would not figure out we had a hot spot.
So basically I am burned out on fishing and ate so much fist I could go the rest of my life without eating any and not miss it.
I laughed at the part when you were second guessing whether or not to turn back. We did that so many times.
My dad gets motion sickness something terrible. He ever gets himself sick Autocrossing his FD!! LOL!! Poor guy. You should see him on a boat.
He is the chum master of the vessel.