9.4.21 OFFSHORE

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Name of Captain; Jack Hexter
Where were you fishing? OFFSHORE
Is this a tournament entry Fishing Report; No
The date you went fishing; 09-04-2021
Your Name; Jack Hexter
Your Fishing Report: If this is a tournament report do not state the fish’s length in this box. State the length and species in the box below My son, Corey, his girlfriend Misty and their 4 year old daughter Lily arrived at our home late Friday to go offshore looking for hogfish on Saturday.  True to our team name, “the Crack of Noon Fishing Team, we got to Nicks Park at 9:30.  While Corey and I launched the boat, Misty and Lily went to the bait store to purchase shrimp..  While there, the young sales lady gave Lily a hermit crab which turned out to be the hit of the weekend.  In rout to our spot, we ran into a flock of birds and deciided to see what they were on.  Turned out the were swarming over a LARGE school of ladyfish.  We caught a bunch of them keeping a couple for bait and then proceeded to continue our run offshore.  I noticed a spot I had not fished in about 12 years which was on my GPS track to the spot I wanted to fish so decided to look around there.  Marked a good sow and dropped a rod with a shrimp and I caught a small red grouper.  We anchored on this spot and caught a large variety of fish, nothing to write home about but both Misty and Lily caught black seabass, squirrel fish, blue runners, and short red grouper.  The girls wanted to stop at the sandbar on the trip home so we left offshore about 1:30, got to the sandbar which was completely under water , so we called it a day.
One nice thing about the day. I was expecting a madhouse at Nicks Park Ramp because of teh holiday weekend, but we got there after all the traffic, and though the lot was full, we did not have to wait at all to launch. And we were early enough returning we did not have to wait to recover and were on our way in minutes.  The hermit crab became a pet, that Misty, Lily and Pam went on a quest at WalMart to find a pen, stopped at Nicks Park to get a shovel full of sand and then stopped at the bait store to get another hermit crab so the first one would not get lonely