Stone Crabs

Eddie and I braved rain ,wind and rough seas today to get our stone crab traps into the water. We hope it is a good season.

Many Mahi

Gary Salyers and his son and friends had a nice catch of dolphin the other day.  Gary has been dolphin fishing for a long time and said this was one of the best fishing days ever.

Big One

This was probably a 30 pounder.

DOLPHIN

The Big Boy

I forgot my camera and had to take this with my phone and use the spotlight as a flash.

On The Way Out

It was a beautiful night on the water. The water was like glass and we knew we would see some lobster. Afer 10 minutes one of our underwater lights went out so we had to spend the rest of the night with only one light.  That means we were only able to see into the water on one side of the boat, so who knows how many we did not see because of no light.

1/4 Bucket of Lobster

Big Boy

It took Pat and I 20 minutes to get this big boy, but we finally got him. We had a good night. We got 4 lobster but missed another 4 or 5. The water is very high in our favorite area and it makes it tough to hold the net over them and then poke them.
The big boy was so big that the bully net was keeping his antenna and tail pinned down so he could not get locked in.
 And yes, the small one was legal size.

MAHI

My nephews John {top photo} and James {bottom} did some mahi fishing last week in the Dominican Republic.

FULL RACK

Captian Gus Ramirez had a real good day aboard his "Wahoo Vlll". He fished with Captain Carlos and Adelky. They found a large tree floating and decided to try trolling for wahoo because they already had their mahi limit. They got six wahoo and 30 mahi.

WAHOO

Captains Gus and Carlos along with Adelky went out about 24 miles Thursday aboard "Wahoo Vlll and caught 30 mahi and 6 wahoo. The biggest wahoo was 32 pounds.

COUSINS

My cousins, Jerry on the left and his brother Pete on the right came to visit for a few days. We did some bully netting last night with no luck and today we went to the Hens & Chickens Reef but there were so many jelly fish we couldn't snorkel. Then we went out to Davis Reef and the water was crystal clear with no jelly fish but plenty of fish of all different sizes and color

Half of a Bucket of Lobster

Six Lobster

Pat and I went bully netting tonight and caught these six lobster. We could have got more but the lightning sent us home.

250 Pounds of Salmon

Steve Rogers Bob Randall Bill Knowles

This pictures reminds me of the night on Tavernier Creek a few years back fishing with these guys on the "FISHING MACHINE".

Hey Dave,

Went out fishing yesterday offshore from Red fish Pass, caught twelve gag grouper no keeper (didnt have the Dave look), on the way back we put out some trolling rods, and caught this King fish. Waiting for you to catch the keepers.
Ray

Shark Daddy

Shark Daddy Gary Humfleet also known as "The Shark Whisperer" stands next to his big red sled.

Big Cohos

Big Fish Bob Randall and is Brennen O'Keefe hold up some coho they caught in the Big Manistee River.  Bob's fish weighed in at 20 pounds, Brennan 8 pounds.  Big Fish says the salmon are monsters this year.

HOG KING SALMON

Bob and Nancy Randall's nephew Joey caught this 23lb King Salmon today on the Big Manistee River. It is his 16th birthday tomorrow so he got his birthday fish and a whopper at that. Uncle Big Fish was the captain and Megan the first mate. Two 16 year old kids in the family now!

KING SALMON

Big Fish Bob Randall caught these 14 and 17 pound king salmon on the Big Manistee River.

This 34 inch redfish was caught near Marco Island by Larry Poling. 

WOW

Big Fish Bob Randall holds up this monster salmon he caught yesterday.

BIG TROUT???

My cousin Judy won the pool with the first trout of the day even though it was a mini-trout.

1ST LOBSTER

Tyler Krotenberg from Aberdeen Court tries handling his first lobster under the watchful eyes of his grandfather Jerry