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Votes: 0 | | Posted on Friday, February 28, 2003 - 8:16 am: | |
Subject: Fishing Report of 2-26-03
Apalachicola, St. George Island to St. Marks, Florida -- Offshore
We, like most of our buddies who take folks charter fishing in our area, are busy doing yearly maintenance and generally spiffing up our boats for the upcoming season.
Our boat, DEBO TOO, is coming along nicely and we hope to have her back in the water standing tall and tough in the next week or so. A complete interior paint job including all decks, additional sound attenuating materials underdeck and some advanced electronics will make her even nicer and more efficient for our many clients’ coming adventures offshore.
Effort wise, the upcoming season is showing signs of being even busier this year than last as advance bookings at this point in time are running far ahead of last year. This is most heartening to me as increases in fixed and variable cost forced me to increase our pricing some for the coming year. Hopefully, no further increases will be required for several seasons to come.
Fish wise, indications are very positive though we ourselves haven’t been fishing since about mid January. Many of our sport fishing friends have had good catches of grouper in the last couple of weeks when they have been able to get a fishable day. Many of the larger (Bubba) grouper have been way offshore doing their spawning thing for the last few weeks but have been showing back up in their regular haunts here of late. Hopefully, they will be all frisky and famished when DEBO TOO comes to visit starting about mid March.
Weather wise, the days are getting longer, the fronts are further apart and are lessening in severity, and it’s getting warmer. Guys, we can’t wait! It should be a great season!
Take those kids fishing
&
Catch Em’ Up!
Capt. Randy |
