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Votes: 0 | | Posted on Monday, May 12, 2003 - 8:16 am: | |
Subject: Fishing Report of 5-11-03
Apalachicola, St. George Island to St. Marks, Florida -- Offshore
Our good friend and long time client Billy Westmoreland brought his friends Donald and Charlotte Dodson, Harold and Hal Still and Lonnie Young down to fish two days back to back with us on the 8th.
These good folks are from up around the Barnwell, SC area and are avid fisherfolks and a heck of a lot of fun to take fishing.
The first day of fishing produced 7 good grouper to 15# and nice red snapper and a good bunch of black sea bass. The grouper bite was a little slow so I decided on a little different strategy for day 2.
This time of the year there should be some good concentrations of amberjack on some of the taller structures throughout our area and I decided we would check them out. I was right. We had a blast catching our limit of 6 good amberjack to 30# on our first stop. Man do those guys fight!
We fished hard the rest of the day in water depths ranging from 48’ on out to 97’
but still experienced fickle fish that had very little interest in our fine baits. We only got one 7# grouper but did manage to entice 3 nice red snapper to 12# to finally bite. Fishing was tough, but Billy and his crew understand that fishin’ isn’t always catchin’ all you can stand. Now, he’s done both with us.
We were surely hoping for a change in the attitude of our fishy friends and that may be happening now. Towards the end of Billy’s last day with us I saw the first flying fish of the year and the water temperature is up in the high 70’s now.
Yesterday, we had Ronnie Lamons and his crew of friends from up around the Pelham and Thomasville, Georgia area fishing with us. We ended a fine day with a much improved catch of 16 good grouper to 18#, a limit of 6 good size amberjack to 30#, a red snapper at about 6# and a nice mess of black sea bass.
Take those kids fishing
&
Catch Em’ Up!
Capt. Randy
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