2008 Fishing Reports

 

Jan

Blue Fin tuna slowing down.King Mackeral fishing doing good on Gulf Stream trips.Been catching alot of Black Sea bass and Sharks inshore on 1/2 day trip last couple weekends.

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Feb 03 2008

Had a tough trip today inshore. The water has gotten really cold over the last few days close to the beach. We had to move offshore to be able to put some fish in the boat. The spiny dogfish ate us up wherever we went, but we managed to catch some black bass and other fish offshore. Marie from Atlanta, GA, caught one nice, genuine red snapper.

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Feb 14 2008

Wahoo showing up in the steeples and and some Black fin tuna

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Feb 15 2008

Nice Wahoo and Blackfin tuna showing up in Gulf Stream.Wont be but a couple more weeks and the yellow fin tuna should start showing up.

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Feb 19 2008

Inshore trip today alot of sharks and a few black bass from stop to stop.Last one turned out to be the hornet nest.


March 02 2008

Doing some 1/2 day trips this week catching good Black Sea Bass and lots of sharks.

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March 02 2008

inshore dogs

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March 13 2008

Over the past week, I've done a lot of half day trips. We had a lot of catches of black sea bass inshore 4-8 miles out. Here's a good picture of a rare fish in our waters this time of year. It comes from up in the north Atlantic - a tautog, or what we call slimy rocks. It lives along the bottom, in and amongst rocks, wrecks, mussel beds, bridge pilings or other bottom features, but we very seldom catch these down here. Got some gulfstream charters coming up Easter week. I can't wait to get out there and see what the tuna and wahoo will be doing. They have slowed down the last couple of days from other boats because the water is too cold. That should change at the end of the week.

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March 15 2008

A group of men from a church group were down and wanted to do some fishing. We did an afternoon trip fishing about 5-8 miles out. There are a lot of sea bass on the beach right now. Most fish average from 10-11 inches. We caught fish non-stop but due to the new law with black bass at 12 in., we didn't get to take many home.

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March 18 2008

I had a group of college students today on a 1/2 day trip. We caught plenty of black sea bass and had one nice surprise like last week, another tautog.

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March 18 2008

On my afternoon trip, I had a family from Wisconsin. The black bass were still chewing hard, but it was hard to get them over 12 in. We ended up with a nice family fish fry amount anyway.

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March 21 2008

The bacon family and friends had a good catch today out on the water.

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March 31 2008

The wind has been blowing the last couple of days and I haven't done any fishing. I've been working on a new 42'Fish Hook II boat. This boat is a battle tank that will be really comfortable platform for charter fishing. It will have air conditioning, heat, and a brand new power plant. You won't want to get off this boat at the end of the day.

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April 17 2008

Good catches of black bass today on half-day trip. Had a group trip and did really well with the bottom fishing.

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April 17 2008

Afternoon trip

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April 17 2008

A few scattered atlantic bonita showing up again hope they will be in full swing next week

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April 21,2008

This young angler Andrew had alot of fun today with his father,and friend Charles.

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April 21 2008

Nice flounder showing up on rocks offshore.

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April 21,2008

Found some some little tuna this morning and some Blue fish.

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April 24 2008

Good morning fishing for Black Sea Bass caught alot kept enough for dinner

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April 24 2008

Afternoon trip - This family from New York had a great time winding in some bottom fish on a beautiful weather day.

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April 27 2008

Good catch of bottom fishing this mornig with family from sunset beach.

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April 26 2008

Another tautog

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April 26 2008

Afternoon trip keeper not a keeper? caught some more Black Bass inshore this afternoon.

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April 27 2008

Spanish Mackeral in full swing today all you wount to catch.

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April 30 2008

I had a group trip this morning with people from Atlanta, GA, and newlyweds from New York, NY. We started out trolling and caught plenty of spanish mackeral and then went to the bottom to finish off with some black bass. The fish were biting good today. I can't wait to go the the gulfstream next week. I have 4 trips so hopefully the weather will stay nice!

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May 1 2008

Big day with the spanish mackeral this morning.

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May 03 2008

Nice catch of bottom fish today on 8 hr trip with group from Marion Nc

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May 05 2008

Good Day in the Gulf Stream bottom fishing had limit of Big Sea Bass and trigger fish and Grunts.Nice fish fry for this group.

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May 5 2008

Bottom Black Sea bass a monster

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May 07 2008

Fish bit good again today inshore on 1/2 day trips alot of Spanish Mackeral and Black Sea Bass.these girls from Wisconsin had a great time on the water today.

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May 10 2008

Good bite on the King Mackeral today fishing on a all day offshore trip with crazy Jim and his employees from Charlotte NC.
Jim and his group have been fishing with me for the past three years. You might have noticed him in previous pictures with wahoo and dolphins. We had a late start this morning so we didn't go all the way to the gulfstream, but we got some trips next week for dolphin and wahoo if the weather holds up.

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May 12 2008

This family from Detroit had a fun time fishing together last Wednesday.

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May 14 2008

Spanish Mackeral bit good today.This groupe of guys just graduated from collage,they going to have a fish fry tonight.

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May 21 2008

Nice trigger fish caught on this 1/2 day trip.This family had fun on the water today.

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May 24 2008

Mahi mahi are biting real good in the gulfstream. Fished with the crew from Anchor Marina in the Dixie Chicken tournament today and came in 3rd place with aggregate weights and 1st place for the biggest king mackeral. We had a good bite but lost 8 fish. One of those fish was a wahoo. We really needed that one to get 1st place. But anyway, I've fished the tournament four times and always won some money.

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May 25 2008

The Offshore fishing is turned wide open now with good catches of dolphin in the Gulf Stream and a few moving in on all day trips. Good trip today this group they only keepted enought to eat,During their vacation time at the beach.

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May 28 2008

Fishing good in the Gulf Stream for Wahoo and Dolphin.On 1/2 day trips and night trips Before the sun goes down good catches of spanish mackeral and sharkes.Night trips sharkes are bitting strong.

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