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I can't say it enough - GROUPER FISHING IS AWESOME
RIGHT NOW! I'll let the pictures do the talking - click any of them to see
enlarged!
Captain Paul Cronk
(352-498-7317)
landed this fine feast of fish!
Call to book a trip with Paul today!
Johnny and Brenda Wilson
brought in their share of
Grouper and Amber Jacks
with Captain Andy Lawrence.
Ron Hayes
landed these fine grouper
trolling Stretch 30+. He believes the
new Perch Color worked best
for him today (3/7/02)!
Grouper fishing has bee fantastic!! Regardless of your method of fishing, folks have been reeling in the grouper. Trolling has produced some wonderful fish. The Stretch 30+ Lures in the colors Black Mullet, the Holographic Rainbow, Perch and Mullet, the Fire Tiger, Red Tiger, and Redhead are selling really well. On the bottom, a 6oz egg weight with a 7/O hook is the most common sold right now. Frozen baits include Cigar Minnows, Thread Herring, Spanish Sardines, and Mackerel.
Click photo to see enlarged.
The following smiling fisherman caught all their grouper trolling...
The above grouper were caught aboard "Whitey" with
Captain Steve White.
This Week's Steinhatchee Fishing
Report 2/02/02
Capt Sam LeNeave
Lite-Line
Charters
Gainesville, FL
Phone: 352-374-4003
Email: flyfisher@ix.netcom.com
My clients and I left the Sea Hag Marina at 7:15 am on Saturday, February 2. The wind was supposed to blow 15 to 20 out of the NE switching to N in the afternoon and dropping to 10 to 15. I did not know what kind of success we would have with the front moving through plus the wind, but we were going to try. My plan was to run South just past Rocky Creek, tuck in as close to shore as possible to get out of the wind and fish the falling tide. The tide was to be low at 10:55 so we were going to have about 3 hours in close with hopefully some sunshine on the flats then follow the tide back in to the grass.
Our targets today were reds and gator trout. (All catch and release) but as luck would have it, we had the front go through mid morning, the wind was out of the NE in the morning, blowing less than ten, but we did have sunshine on the flats almost all day.
I then decided to return to our starting point
and give the area one last shot. When we got north of Rocky Creek and started
our drift we changed to Capt Mike's Indian River spoons gold with red mylar
tape and silver with bright green mylar tape, and we also started to see
large reds swimming by the boat. By this time, it was almost 3:00 in the
afternoon, the wind was blowing hard out of the NW and the tide was rising.
We started casting the spoons, and about 30 minutes into the drift we hooked a 24" trout on the silver spoon with green mylar tape. As we continued to fish, we were seeing many more reds moving in about 24" of water. My client fishing on the bow told me he counted over 50 reds by the boat in less than 30 minutes. We did manage to boat 2 reds 1-22" and 1-24" to close a very long day. We returned to Sea Hag about 5 pm.
It was tough all day but if you consider the number
of large reds we saw late in the afternoon, it's going to be a fantastic
spring!
Also, right now bottom fishing is proving to work
better than trolling.
Shown below - Meyer-Sterner Employees and Friends
had a whirlwind of boats and fish!
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Following, my son, Chase, and 'Daddy' show
off one of four fine groupers Steve White caught while trolling. He says
the Stretch 30+'s in the colors Red Tiger and Mullet worked the best for
him.
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