Snapper season
 

Heading offshore today. Wish us luck...

I hope you had fair weather and a successful trip. Give us a report when you get everything squared away. We have to run about 35 miles out down here to get in enough depth to catch 'em.

It blew pretty good until Wednesday so we mostly lost the first 4 days of our 9 day season bestowed upon us this year by the Gulf Council and National Marine Fisheries (NOAA). Now lets see, the Commercial guys have 365 days to catch their 1/2 of the allowable catch and the Recreational guys are given 9 days to catch our 1/2 of the allowable catch for the year. But wait, we get to bring them in at the rate of 2 per fisherman per day (from 35 miles for us) and they can fill the fish hold up if they want until they meet their quota.

Martin, I hope you saw a lot of boats around you when you were out there. Because if you figure the average boat would have 4 successful fishers on board that caught an average of two 12.5# Red Snappers that would total 100# Red Snapper per Recreational boat per day. If you divide the 215,000#s Recreational allotment for this year by 100# that's 21,500 successful Recreational trips for this year squeezed into 9 days or an average of 2300 trips or so per day. Wait a minute, you don't have time to read this - get out there and get fishing or they'll cut our allotment to 175,000#'s and a 6 day season!

35 for us also, for 1, with a 3 weekend season :(

last week
 

thursday

saturday
 

saturday

Sunday
 

6/8/14

22 pounder

last sun
 

6/1/14

nice wahoo

and we did catch 8 on opening day memorial day weekend inshore

Man the wahoo buite is pretty good. Would like to try to get some this weekend

GOOD JOB Martin. Catchin' 'em up while you can. Consumptive fishing, just like the Apostles except they didn't have a vacuum bagging machine and had to feed a bigger crowd. Now stand down on the Red Snapper's for another 51 weeks!

Thanks it was fun.. But man it does wear you out abit when you do back to back trips...inshore snapper in still in season.. So probably get some off grayton beach and natural bottom west...

Awesome snapper, are those dolphin at the top of this picture ?

http://www.classicseacraft.com/commu...1&d=1402450758http://www.classicseacraft.com/commu...1&d=1402450758

Not dolphin. look like maybe Spanish mackerel...

Looks like what we call "peanut" dolphin. Drove away from hundreds of them this past week in Marathon, a major PIA. Some really nice snapper though!!!! Yum-O!

They cant be dolphin, there is a 20" minimum on dolphin. :o

No Federal size or catch limit in the Gulf for dolphin.

Yes they are Dolphin.
 

AKA Chicken Dolphin as we call them here in PC Fl. They are quite tasty Grilled whole on the Coals...

They make the best sandwich fillets! Blackened on a butter grilled cibbatta roll with sliced pickled bannana peppers, pepper jack cheese and a horseradish roasted garlic aioli.

now Im hungry

I just learned something new :)

Like so many other regs, that one makes a lot of sense :rolleyes: