On 4/20/15 8:45 PM, Tim wrote:
On Monday, April 20, 2015 at 4:54:14 PM UTC-7, Wayne. B wrote:
On Mon, 20 Apr 2015 19:00:31 -0400, John H.
wrote:

On Mon, 20 Apr 2015 17:14:01 -0400, Wayne.B wrote:


https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ap5fz0o3d...HeCe9lDwa?dl=0

We each took home more than 12 poinds of grouper filets - real good
eating and a great day on the water.

Captain Tom is highly recommended. The full day charter is the best
option because it gives him time to get well offshore where the best
fish are. The price is reasonable if split 6 ways.

http://www.tomsdeepseafishing.com/

Very nice Wayne. Was that a deep sea or near shore trip? I'm guessing, by the size of
the fish, that it was near shore.

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Most people would regard it as deep sea fishing although we were not
off the continental shelf. We were out about 45 to 50 miles in about
100 ft of water. Off the continental shelf the water is thousands of
feet deep and you encounter so called ocean pelagic fish. In the Gulf
of Mexico you have to go out over 100 miles to be off the shelf. On
the east coast near Miami, less that 10 miles. There are places in
the Bahamas where the water drops off to thousands of feet deep less
than a mile from the inlet.

That's like circling around the island of Kauai. Your a couple hundred yards from shore and as you move you watch the depth finders go from 30-3000 feet in an instant.



If you want to catch some nice grouper, snapper, cobia and kingfish
macks, and other varieties, including big ones, head to the east coast
of Florida between Miami and Ft. Lauderdale, pay $35 to $50, and hop
aboard one of the head boats out of Haulover Inlet. I do that almost
every year, and always manage to bring back some really nice fish. Might
be a dozen guys fishing aboard these boats mid-week. I bring my own rods
and reels and rigs, but the boats supply decent gear and baits. You only
have to go a mile or two offshore there to get "on" the north-south
reefs, so you spend most of your time fishing, not getting to where the
fish might be. Most of the bigger hotels will prepare and serve up your
catch.

If you want to pay more and go out a lot farther, you'll encounter tuna.

In the Keys, the Atlantic side fishing reefs are even closer to shore.
When you get out to one in a small boat, you can look down and there,
12' underneath you, is your catch. You can see them swimming.