A special day with old time clients and excellent fishing. On today's charter myself and Capt. Mark Zorn fished the Homosassa Fishing Club, but we brought the guys up to Crystal River for a change of scenery. I had John and Carter on board and Carter is a legend in his own right and has been fishing these water for over 70 years (you should here how the fishing in this area used to be). It was a treat for me to show him the Crystal River area and we had a ball. To start the day, I made a run offshore to some of my favorite rocks and the grunts, mackerel and snapper fishing was non stop. John caught a surprise catch I don't see everyday and actually brought aboard two trigger fish to add to the species list. With a cooler "full" of fish, we spent the afternoon working the creeks and landing some really hefty back country red fish. Free lining live shrimp around the rocky points did the trick and the guys had a wonderful day. Here's Carter with today's big red fish and I thank you for the fun time... Capt. Dan
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A couple over slot reds were the stars for today's Crystal River charter and we had a some keepers to along with them as well. I had Mario, Richard and Rick on board today and the red fish were on the feed. We caught fish on various points, sight fished a couple and even pick a 30" beauty out of a school. Free lined live shrimp was the bait of choice for the majority of the fish, but the sight fished reds we caught were on jigs. After the red fish action, I took the guys to some of the shallow water rocks to try their luck at spearfishing a grouper. We saw a couple small ones, but the visibility wasn't the best so we called it a day. I thank you all for good time and here's Richard with one of today's big reds... Capt. Dan
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Back on the big ones and today's crew caught some beautiful red fish. I had Kit, Rob and Paul on board out of Pete's Pier Marina and we spent the majority of the day targeting red fish. Running from point to point and working various rocky shorelines in the creeks, the guys did great. Free lined live shrimp was the bait of choice and all the reds today were slot fish - plus a couple well over the 30" mark. Blackened red fish is whats for dinner for the team and I thank you all for the fun time. Here's Paul with the first red fish of the day, a hefty back country Crystal River red... Capt. Dan
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They can't be big ones everyday and on today's charter, they definitely eluded us. I had Rick, Don and Mario on board and after we dodged the morning storms, it turned out to be a pretty nice day. We covered a bunch of ground from the North Shore off Crystal River to the back country in Dixie bay. The guys had action with red fish, mangrove snapper and a little pup snook, but we just couldn't get on any fish of any size. It was still a fun day and with super high tide from the steady SW wind, I gave the guys a great boat ride though the creeks. Thank you all for your efforts and here's Rick with a future trophy snook... Capt. Dan
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