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On Sun, 06 Aug 2006 18:14:56 -0400, Harry Krause
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...four of us on Yo Ho caught a mess of 3# croakers today on the south
side of the mouth of the Patuxent River, in about 30' of water, using
light bottom rigs with squid as bait. Back at the marina, a bunch of
guys were cleaning some really large stripers they caught while
trolling. The Bay was lovely today, light 1' chop, a bit of a breeze,
blue skies. Guys I was with drank a hellacious amount of cheap beer.
Blech.


Cool.
I saw a kid pull up a legal red grouper in the Estero river yesterday.

That's a pretty cool catch in so close. Are you sure it was a "red" and not
a light colored gag?

We went out 40 miles yesterday on a 39' Midnight Express with triple
engines, and managed just two 20" and one 28" red grouper among 6 guys.
Grouper fishing has been horrible this year. I haven't caught a keeper on
my boat since last Fall. In winter/spring '05, I caught 2-3 keeper gags
every trip out in just 25-30' of water...and zero this year!