Yes folks, another windy cold front is coming through the area and it limited my range on where I could fish today. I had Bill on board for a 1/2 day Crystal River charter and we stayed in the river, to make the best of a windy situation. We began today's charter targeting snook and had some success boating six beautiful snook to start our day. We used yo-zuri 3D minnows in the green back and white color combinations to land our snook. Our next species was some tasty mangrove snapper. Fishing some springs and rock ledges with free lined live shrimp, we caught or limit of legal snapper to add to the mix. We didn't trout or red fish today due to the conditions, but we made the best it and had a great time. I thank you Bill and look forward to fishing again soon... Capt. Dan
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I just finished filming an excellent upcoming episode of "One More Cast" with Shaw Grigsby. This was truly a milestone in my fishing career and to fish with such a legend in the fishing industry, was a dream come true. The show will air after the first of the year on the Sportsman's channel and will feature some beautiful Crystal River grouper... Capt. Dan
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Finally, the gulf is back to normal. Although it is quite dirty, the fish are back to feeding. The drastic 15 degree water temperature drop from earlier in the week put the fish in to shock and it took a couple days for them to get comfortable. Ryan and Chris joined me out of Pete's Pier today and the guys had a great morning jigging up some trout. The tide was running out and we targeted some grass patches around some rock bars with MirrOlure Lil' Johns in hand. It was fast action and in short order, they had their limit. Grouper season has recently closed (due to the unintelligent scientists at NOAA's Gulf Council) as of Nov. 1st, so we did some catch and release photographing. We trolled the usual good hard bottom areas in about 20ft of water and caught several grouper to finish our day. Today was another great one in the books and congratulations on your fine catch... Capt. Dan
I wanted to send a big thank you to David Brown one of the contributing editors for Florida Sportsman Magazine. David did an outstanding grouper trolling story in this months issue and featured "yours truly" as one of the captains. It's a great article and if you have a chance to read it, I know you'll enjoy it... Capt. Dan
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