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Post by KerryB on Jan 26, 2009 15:35:39 GMT -5
I try to make a trip each year with a group of firefighter buddies. We take a 65' Bonner called the Entertainer out of Pensacola Beach Florida for a couple of nights and days of world class fishing. We generally end up hanging around the oil rigs about 100 miles off the coast. We catch Yellowfin Tuna, Dorado, AmberJack, Red Snapper, Grouper, Wahoo, and a few other species. We usually catch enough fish to last us till the trip next year. Here is a photo of me and some of my buddies with a few of our fish. My father made it on this trip as well (far left kneeling) and i am kneeling next to him. All the guys in our group are really hard core when it comes to deep sea fishing and we all have our own gear. If you go to "Entertainer Charters" in a Google seach, you can look through all of the photos on their site and most of them are our group! He says that our group catches more fish than any other that he takes out. Fun, fun, fun........................
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Post by deadeye on Jan 26, 2009 23:57:26 GMT -5
fished destin,fl a couple of dozens of times,outer banks(atlantic) & such,you are lucky to have a group of buds to hold together to charter these fishin trips to your veryselves,gettin very expensive too. besides walleye or mountain trout ,does it get any better than 2" thick"white" fillets of a 25lb grouper on the grill?, dont get me wrong-amberjack,redsnapper & dolfin are great too with many others ;D
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Post by KerryB on Jan 27, 2009 0:21:18 GMT -5
I like most of the sea fish with Trigger's, Grouper, Snapper and Tuna being my favorites. Didn't care much for the Wahoo. It ends up costing us around $6000 for two full days and nights of fishing and there are usually around 10 of us that make the trip. For $600 each we end up with a big cooler full of fillets and enough wonderful memories to last us till the next trip. The boat has a nice galley for cooking our meals (mostly fresh fish ) as well as plenty of bunk space for all of us to catch a little sleep. The night fishing will give you butterflies in your stomach as the nights are pitch black and the only light is the fishing lights shining down into several thousand feet of water. It looks and feels like you are on a boat that is floating in space with no horizon visible. Not good if you have even a little vertigo. Sharks and cudas are swimming all around the boat and it is sometimes difficult or impossible to get our fish to the boat without a shark eating it! All you reel in is the head of your fish! I do at times just throw cheap lures to catch the sharks for the fun of it and then cut them off when they get up to the boat. I hooked up with a big Tuna that weighed probably 150-200lbs and we chased him all over the Gulf before his tail finally sawed my line in two. It is rare for groups of fishermen to take overnight charters so far out into the Gulf and that is the main reason that we do so well. It is extremely tiring to fish so hard for so many hours straight and i usually pass out for a couple of days after we get home! I sure love it though...................
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Post by youp50 on Jan 27, 2009 4:15:59 GMT -5
Lets see its Tupelo here, not Mississippi but zero Fahrenheit. Actually it is colder than that. I do not think I want to look in the mirror now I am surely green with envy. That is something to look forward to.
On the positive side there are no charges for the ice needed to chill the fish.
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