Holey Queen Snapper!! The Gulfstar brought in a big number of theses beauties on this trip. 280 to 540 feet was the range of fishing grounds.
While limiting out on the Red Snapper, at the same time the rest of the catch was incredible as well. Along with the Snapper were B Liners, Porgies, Tilefish. Black fin Tuna, Scamp, Yellow Edge Grouper, Snowy Grouper and huge Amberjack.
Dean’s monster Snowy took home the Grouper jackpot while the very delightful Norm, took home the prize for his winning Tilefish.
The last stop produced one of the best bites, but unfortunately, the sharks seemed to outnumber the hook ups. Many nice fish were reported lost due to the frenzy. (A couple of them were up to 8 feet long)
This was a fantastic trip with a fantastic catch!
Capt, Joy
2 comments
capt lou carola
Aug 16, 2015
i think you need to report on the 16 hour trip of august 1st where NOTHING was caught….,
well, that is not quite 100% true; i believe two gags and a handfull of grunts.
the boat went out during gale force winds, thunderstorms and extremely high seas anyway and about 12 of 17 people that showed up were sick as camels after eating rotten curry.
the good news on that trip was the captain, mates and cook were excellent and the boat
performed well; even though the trip was a complete BUST.
plus being a salt, i did not have to wait in line to get food from the great cook you had on board that trip — nor get elbowed around by a bunch of pilgrims at the rail or having them tangle me up every 5 minutes by not minding their lines! i have to say that was NICE.
gotta give the good with the bad and ugly, right!
Captain Rich
Aug 18, 2015
Capt Lou you are right…. that trip sucked. Actually most of the 12 and 16 hour trips sucked this year. The Red Tide that we had earlier this year really screwed fishing up for everybody. Top that with a crazy weather pattern that has thunderstorms popping up anywhere you can guess for weeks on end and you have difficult fishing trips. We don’t cancel trips because the fishing is probably be difficult or a thunderstorm might pop up. If we had a history of giving in easy we would have never developed the incredible deep drop fishing we have now.. The other boats here said it was a waist of time. They told their customers that we couldn’t catch fish close to home so why would we catch them far from home. NOW the try to emulate us….. We… the “Gulfstar team” thrive on pushing the envelope and always think that today we will make fishing history GOOD, BAD or UGLY that is who we are.
P.S. we had 10 or so people from that trip reschedule or cancel and we did it with a smile. no hassles.. If the weather is definitely going to be horrible we cancel..If the weather is questionable and someone wants to change or cancel we don’t give them a hard time or give them the ” we do refunds on Sunday’s only crap. We do it with a smile…
Capt Rich