Boatloads of Croakers...
 

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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!

Boatloads of Croakers...
 

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On Mon, 07 Aug 2006 00:54:58 GMT, "NOYB" wrote:


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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!

Damn global warming.

Is that code word for "commercial long-liners"? They've raped the seas down
here.

Boatloads of Croakers...
 

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On Mon, 07 Aug 2006 01:47:07 GMT, "NOYB" wrote:


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!

Damn global warming.

Is that code word for "commercial long-liners"? They've raped the seas
down
here.


There are a lot of things to blame. Red tide has been real bad, there
is the Caloosahatchee/Okeechobee mess along with all the "home grown"
nutrient pollution from Lee and Collier county. If you have green
grass in the spring, don't bitch about the summer fishing. Green yards
are killing the estuary and that is where the baby fish come from.
Of course the fishing pressure is intense, both commercial and sport
variety.


Meanwhile, local lobsta' fishermen are reporting a very decent year so far
with quantity and sizes up compared to the last several years.

Eisboch