My Dad had asked me to go fishing Saturday, but Friday night he said the forecast wasn't good, let's go Sunday after church. He gets home around 10:30 or so from early services, so I got to his house in Englewood about 11:15 and we headed out 10 minutes later. Wind wasn't as calm as they said, but it seemed ok. We were planning to go 10 miles out after some grouper, snapper, etc. Had some problems with the port side outboard, so we limped out on one engine to a spot 7 miles out. He was determined not to go home, because his wife was hosting a wedding/baby shower for my cousin's wife from 2-5 pm.
We fished that 7-mile spot for a couple of hours, then both engines cranked and we ran out to the 10 mile spot, and fished another couple of hours. The we came back to another 7-mile spot and fished another 1 1/2 hours. It was kinda rough at times, but not unbearable. The hardest part was running 8 knots on one engine in 5-6 ft swells.
We ended up with 3 lane snappers, 1 yellowtail snapper, 1 porgie, and 7 grunts. I caught one 22-inch gag grouper on a small shrimp at the last 7-mile spot, but had to release him since season is closed. Also caught a small shark, maybe 2 ft, not sure what kind, maybe a sand or lemon. Also caught about 20 undersize red grouper, and more blue runners than anything. Ended up with two small bags of fillets, and I finished off one of those last night.
...I guess people are tired of me whining about it...
Just the ones you haven't called! 😀
Those blue runners make a GREAT smoked fish dip
