My kids are out of town this week and my birthday is in 3 weeks. Weather is ok. And there was a spot open on the 12hr overnight out of Hubbard's tonight.
Game on.
Have fun.
go get them Jason.
dont focus on catching but on fishing ;)
Good luck Jason, enjoy the time on the water! - john
Enjoy! Weather looks good.
Quote from: JasonGotaProblem on August 01, 2025, 06:26:56 PM.. and my birthday is in 3 weeks
Game on.
cool, you're from August, my BD is in 3 days 8)
What you taking from the arsenal?
Go get them , you have a good moon phase . If i did not have a back to back 12 hour trip,I would have joined you . Fill the box with fish!!
Have fun Jason!
Good luck Jason, leave some fish in the water for us, hope you can fill your freezer, cheers Don.
Good luck man,,,, ;D
So the bite was slower on this one than any previous trip I've been on with these guys. Fish are fish. I still left with 10 lane snapped and a decent sized porgy but it definitely wasn't a bonanza trip. I lost an enormous mangrove snapper at the surface because I stupidly tried to hoist him out not knowing the deckhand was right behind me with the gaff. Some life lessons hurt more than others. But that's fishing. I had a blast and I'm glad I went.
Seas were calm-ish and there was a nice breeze most of the time so it wasn't brutally hot.
Now it's time for a nap.
They have a loosely enforced 3 rod limit. I brought my accurate 270, my Newell 220, and my Penn Baja. All saw fish.
You had fun and got some fish, mission accomplished
We did pretty good , my nephew caught his limit . He slept the whole 2 and a half hours back to the dock . We all got muscle burned today .
Joe what's the limit on red snapper now,last time I went outta Destin it was 2/person?
@Jason, Sounds like a great day on the water and you got fish
@joe, great memories for you nephew
Joe didn't even need to be on the same boat as me to out-fish me. 8)
Quote from: jgp12000 on August 04, 2025, 05:25:39 PMJoe what's the limit on red snapper now,last time I went outta Destin it was 2/person?
2 reds per person and 1 trigger per person .
That's a big red snapper. Fishery management must be working.
Hopefully it`s working , the average size coming over the rail was 22 inches . 16 inches is the minimum here . The 2 biggest ones were 31 and 34 and change . 16 fisherman on board and the boat limited out .
Maybe not quite as last minute of a decision, but I'm going again this Friday to try out the full(ish) moon. 2 more spots left on the boat
I will see you Friday night to load up on some big fish . :d :fish
Wet start. The fish are wet anyway. Let's see how it goes
Quote from: JasonGotaProblem on September 05, 2025, 11:18:46 PMWet start. The fish are wet anyway. Let's see how it goes
Dry a few off, Jason! 👍
Alright! No punkin'-out on a charter trip. I plunked-out yesterday AM on a yak trip 'cause it was raining when I woke-up. Only good thing about that was nobody was depending on me to show.
This is my third attempt to write this post. I keep getting derailed and when I come back later what I wrote was erased. But I digress.
This was a wild trip. The 4-10' waves had about half the people on board stuck in the galley or on benches the whole trip. I saw some pretty big waves throw some folks clear off the benches. 60 on the boat I never saw more than a dozen on the rail on my side at a time. I've never seen so many people throwing up at one time in one place (back of the boat). At one point I went in and gave away all my zofran that I had brought with me. That seemed to save a few people. A few people who have heard that story have asked why I didn't auction it off, but I just imagined how miserable those folks were, and i thought of how much they paid to be that miserable. I couldn't bring myself to profit from that. I stayed in the rail the whole time except when I was eating. And never re-tasted my meals. But I did feel kinda queasy on the way back in. I think the other side had more people trying, but it seemed like the way the weather had the boat swinging around the anchor, my side was getting the action the other side was seeing... Well. A few grunts. Case and point, Joe ALWAYS outfishes me. He's just better at it. But he left empty handed I left with 10 snappers. I also lost count of how many undersized grouper and amberjacks I threw back. But then I did find a penny heads up behind my car in the parking garage. Yeah I brought it with me.
I heard a few regulars grumbling at the business of spending 40 minutes to get situated on the spot only to see half the boat get any fish is not abnormal for that particular captain the only other time I rode with him he definitely took his dear sweet time micro-adjusting but he put us on a ton of fish last time so nobody was complaining then.
Also wore my new shirt. I thought it was cool.
I ate grilled yellowtail and vermilion snapper tonight. I think our yellowtail are different from the fish you west coasters know by that name. But these were delicious.
Disclaimer: I do not advise giving prescription meds to folks without a script. That could have gone horribly wrong and in retrospect I feel dumb for doing it. I just saw people suffering and wanted to help.
Really nice shirt, that's for sure.
But how and where did you come up with Zofran? Wife's pregnancy? The data sheets talk about all sorts of nausea, but don't mention anything about sea sickness.
It's a prescription only drug, right? Never thought of that; Zofran for prevention.
It's an anti-nausea med. And that makes more sense as I think about it. I was still a bit queasy if I let the horizon drop out of sight for too long, but I never felt like I was gonna lose it. I may have to add some bonide in there next time.
It's funny. On the way out I was too excited to feel anything negative. In fact I commented a few times that the rough ride made the usually very dull ride out way more interesting.
I don't know if I made it clear, but I had a ton of fun. Not sure the rest of the boat did, but I sure as heck had a blast.
Talking to Joe, he said it wasn't rough enough to qualify as what you west coasters call "sporty", and if so, holy crap. Y'all go out in worse than that?
Fantastic job,,,,, ;D
Quote from: JasonGotaProblem on September 08, 2025, 01:59:16 PMIt's an anti-nausea med. And that makes more sense as I think about it. I was still a bit queasy if I let the horizon drop out of sight for too long, but I never felt like I was gonna lose it. I may have to add some bonide in there next time.
It's funny. On the way out I was too excited to feel anything negative. In fact I commented a few times that the rough ride made the usually very dull ride out way more interesting.
I don't know if I made it clear, but I had a ton of fun. Not sure the rest of the boat did, but I sure as heck had a blast.
Talking to Joe, he said it wasn't rough enough to qualify as what you west coasters call "sporty", and if so, holy crap. Y'all go out in worse than that?
Only if there's no choice. Multi-day, week & month Commercial stuff. In those situations you go through it and then recover. A very few do not and gotta get dropped off in port.
Yet another thing I love about a solo-trip; control.
Nice job Jason, catching a good variety of fish in not the best conditions. Did this trip have a pool for largest fish? If so, what won?
They clearly define the jackpot, probably because there were arguments in the past. It's "biggest keeper snapper by weight"
I thought I was looking pretty good in the running til someone else pulled a very big mango over the rail in the last half hour of fishing. He had also entered the jackpot, so I didn't bother to get mine weighed because there's no second place prize.
:) Well that was a interesting night !! Just as the boat was loading passenger ,it started raining pretty good . Than under way came the thunder and lighting . You can see the looks on people's faces change . They ran to the cabin to duck the rain , that for some people is a no no , and fuels the nausea . Night time ,rain , thunder and lighting sent most over the edge .
At the first stop , the guy to the right of me gave me a warn leg , looked like peaches to me . The deck hand washed me down with the hose . I caught a lot of small fish and threw back .
The one`s that just made keepers , I gave away . I just wanted a good size grouper , That did not happen .
seems like a real adventure Jason and Joe, getting fish and have fun on a rocking boat is a big plus
Mango salsa on the mango snapper tacos, and a lovely sunset tonight.
Taco's look great! - john
More productive than my trip Jason.
I almost called you when I was in Florida but then realized you were a 5-6 one-way drive away.
Steve
Quote from: Crab Pot on October 30, 2025, 11:02:25 PMMore productive than my trip Jason.
I almost called you when I was in Florida but then realized you were a 5-6 one-way drive away.
Steve
Yeah Florida is big. Sucks your trip didn't go as well. Did you get anything? I suspect it's a very different fishery.
We caught Lizard Fish, Black Bass, a Robin Fish which looks like our Carbazones, Mackerel, and some exotic-colored fish that I can't remember the name of.
Freddy would have kept the Trigger Fish I caught but it was too small.