| Mike Spanhel and I opted for an easy ‘A Day of Fishing’ experience – we headed to Tarpon Springs and jumped aboard the Two Georges for a relaxing day of bs’ing and fishing….
Interesting that the Red Tide has forced the Two Georges to head out to deeper water – this has two implications, both of which are very positive.
The first being more time to enjoy a cup of coffee and an incredibly delicious breakfast sandwich PLUS more shots at Grouper.
The run out to our first drop was about an hour and a half, we still had time for about 6 drops before having to head back in.
The bite was steady through out the day until the last drop which brought an onslaught of Grouper. There was probably 12-15 healthy Grouper caught on the last drop, it was wild – many just an ½” short.
The grunt bite was steady all day with better than average size for most, several nice Mangrove Snapper were bagged on the trip along with numerous short Red Grouper.
A note for future trips, the bulk of Grouper were caught in the back half of the boat and with most of those coming on sardines and a few on live pinfish. You just need to get there REALLY early to get those spots.
For the day, Mike and I caught and kept (me actually, Mary and I like fish tacos) about 40 Grunts, and one 16” Mangrove. We caught and released numerous short Gags and Red’s.
The Boat in total had about 12-15 BIG Groupers caught, the wining Grouper in the Tournament was close to 30 inches with 3 or 4 not very far behind.
Interesting, there were only 20 customers on board for the day trip, traffic is a little slow right now, that will pu after Thanksgiving, especially on the weekends.
All-in-all ‘A good time was had by all’, it was nice to have someone else clean the fish , $10 for 40 cleaned Grunts is a no-brainer – stay tuned for an planned ‘A Day of Fishing’ in November |
