Boy's Fishing Trip

Don and Jean's son-in-law Scott holds up a dolphin he caught while on a boy's fishing trip in the Keys.

NICE REDFISH

My cousin Kevin's son Kyle fished with his uncle, Captain Ray Leahy yesterday at Matalacha and caught two nice 21 inch keeper reds.  They also caught a variety of other fish.

35 Pound Almaco Jack

Gus also caught this almaco jack

TWO DAY LIMIT

Gerry Leekey and his son Mason show off their two day catch of lobster that they and a group of fighter pilots caught.  All of these lobster were caught on on the ocean side.

Amber Jack

Captain Gus and Captain Carlos caught a lot of fish yesterday including this 45 pound amber jack.

"HI DAVE, THIS IS A 45 POUND GREAT AMBERJACK, WE RELEASED, BECAUSE IT COULD HAVE CIGUATERA POISON.

WOW

Chip Massa and his son Danny took some friends out and caught their limit of lobster on the first day of mini season.

BUGS

Don and Jean from Aberdeen Court did some lobster hunting yesterday with friends Ray, Rick and Diane.  They got 5 very nice bugs.

New Snapper Hole

The first time we experimented with our prototype UFL, ( Underwater Fish Locator ) we found a nice snapper hangout.  Big snapper they were.

Grouper

We went out again today and caught this small grouper on a live pin fish.  We also caught a shark.

GROUPER TIME

My FISH TIME PRO app said the fish will be biting today between noon and 2 pm, so the Keyswoomon and I went back country to see if the bite was on.  It was.  The top and middle picture is a 22 1/4 inch red grouper that I caught on the first cast.  Red grouper have to be 22 inches in Monroe County and 20 inches in the Gulf.  The bottom picture is of a gag grouper that was 23 1/2 inches, a half inch too short.
We left that area and went searching for some new spots and I finally found an island with a moat around it and was able to get the boat right up to it.  I know this island moat will produce in the future.
Sometimes I use very big pin fish for bait if that is what I have, and I am always asked if they are too big to catch a grouper?  Well, take a look at that mouth in the second picture.

Cobia

My cousin Ray from Cape Coral fished for grouper yesterday in the Gulf of Mexico on his friend Mike's new Everglades. Doug caught this 55 pound cobia.  Left to right, Doug, Ray Mike and Ed.