The wind is out of the NE at 18kts and still chilly in the mid 50's. The grouper bite today is very good. Team Oliver Printing out of Ohio released 5 legal grouper and had kept some snappers, hogfish and mackerel. We had a good bite off the kite but it got away:( Seas are running 2-3 and later on...
Today we have Greg and Heather onboard and the are catching one after the other mix bag of fish. We have landed hogfish, mutton, mangrove, yellowtail, and lane snappers, black, gag and red grouper, mackerel and other odds and ends. We are using jigs tipped with shrimp and we are fishing the patch reefs...
The bottom bite is on! We are catching large mutton snapper up to 20 pounds and black grouper that went 31 pounds on the boga grip. We had to let the groupers go due to the season being closed. Which makes no sence when they spawn May, June, and July, according to my fishing app. on my iPhone. But the...
Recreational fisherman take note! Amendment 29 gives away 65 percent of Gulf gag and red groupers to the commercial fishing industry through a catch share or IFQ (individual fishing quota) program. Coastal Conservation Association (CCA) has filed a lawsuit in federal district court in Fort Myers, Florida...
Today we have "cotton top" and "monster" fishing with us. They are big rig truck drivers from the Carolinas. We are catching nice grouper, mangrove snapper, and yellowtail snappers on the patch reefs. The tide is running inshore and we have a South wind at 10kts. It is overcast but...
We started out with some fog this morning but it is lifting now. The grouper bite is red hot today. We are catching a few mangrove snapper on live shrimp and a Calcutta Ultra Jig. The deep drops are good! We are catching black grouper, mutton snapper, amberjack and more!!! The current is .7kts to the...
Recipe by Capt. Pete Rapps - Ingredients - ¼ cup olive oil 1 large Vidalia onion (chopped) 1 green pepper (chopped) 4 celery stalks (chopped) 1 small stalk of fennel (chopped) ¼ cup green onions (chopped) 3 Tbs minced garlic 1 Bay leaf 2 tsp salt 1 Tbs Captain Rapps' "Everyday"...
This was the coldest day of the year to me, but the fish were biting. Robert shows off this African Pompano that we caught today along with 10 mutton snapper up to 14 pounds. Large amberjack, mangrove snapper, and other odds and ends were caught today. That was on our deep wrecks off Marathon. Seas were...
Yesterday was a flat calm day in the Gulf. We went 25 miles out with the Lantrip family and had a good day with Gag grouper, snapper, blacktip sharks, mackerel, and of course too many Goliath grouper (up to 80 pounds). Today's first 1/2 day trip, we are doing a two tank dive on the reef and the seas...