East Coast Report
 

I have been in florida for the last 5 days, just north of Ft Lauderdale.The weather has been anything but nice to us. 15 to 25mph wind, swells 6 to 8 ft. this has been non stop. My dad and I were sick of waiting for a nice day, which I dont think we will have.

So yesterday, we went out on a 50 ft boat 6 pack charter. There were 5 of us dumb enough to go on this trip. Our bow was getting submerged by the swells on the way out. It was crazy watching these huge swells come in and shake our boat. We didnt pass any other boats out there. There was a small craft advisory out. It was anything but calm. I actually got air a few times out of my seat.

Well, my pops fished for about 20 minutes and chummed the rest of the day for us. I am thankful I spend so much time on the water and was feeling fine. fishing was difficult with the swell. It was fast drift fishing. Hard to tell if your bait is hitting the bottom. You are constantly trying to keep your balance against the side. Good practice for those rough days out at lj.

No MLPA's here, you can fish from the beach, bridge, dock , kayak, boat etc.....And they have YT, but there much smaller and not half as much of a fight.

My dorado was fun it kept launching itself out of the water.

You WCW men are stoked I am out here and not in LJ:p

heres the catch:

Freekin sweet Sharon! I love So Cal, but that haul is exactly what would soften the blow if I chose to leave:D

yellowtail snapper and a dolphin...TASTY!................nice score for the effort :luxhello:

Nice, find all the hog snapper you can. They are awesome.

You said it brotha....nice fish fry material Sharon:reel:

:cheers1::cheers1:Nice fish!

(nice name for the dive boat behind you too)

Great report!!!



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Hows the :canabis:?

Ya for some reason I look stoney in my pics...

Eric, you will be stoked. I am in the process of buying another ticket back to florida in feb! :cool:

6 packs don't count for WCW!! :reddy:

Nice color on them bad boys.....

RK...She just was with out glasses.... bad glare.... site fishing / big swells

Jack Crevalle throughout the inter coastal.

Catch Marlin - 1 or 2 miles off the beach in Ft. Lauderdale

There are Big Grouper along the bridge pilings - they're like Black Sea Bass incase you get homesick. :D

Nice East coast haul !

What, no kayak gator hunting? I hear they're good eatings too!

If you wanna try "gator" BPS usually has it in the restaraunt there, a good excuse to go to BPS...imo:D

Looks like good fun and a nice fish Sharon.

Very cook report Sharon:cheers1:

Keep those NON- Hali,wsb,yellow reports coming!:D
Eric and I really enjoy them!

Say, I grew up in Florida! Southern part, Miami down to the Keys. Looks like a nice haul on the Yellowtail, and is that a mutton snapper? Nice one. Used to do a LOT of scuba back then, spent my teenage years under the water. Jewfish are the eqivilent of our Black Seabass, they can reach 2000lbs.

There are areas in southern FLA that do have restrictions, and limits, and sizes. And from what my brother tells me, they have helped. When I was out there long ago I would watch many guys use a cast net to catch schooling baby mangrove snappers, and the mahi mahi were being decimated by folks that would fill several trash cans with babies. By the time I gat sent here (was in the Air Force) you couldn't find any snapper, and you were lucky if you found an adult mahi mahi, and forget the snook, people were harpooning them from the flood gates during the spawning season. The regulations implimented, and enforced, saved several species of fish from disappearing.

Nice report! I'm on the west side of Fla tonite and will hit Key West tomorrow late, come on down to Conch Marina and we'll catch some sailfish:) and yea the winds have been brutal on the outside.

Sweet...