Today was a fun day with my good friend George from Yo-Zuri lures. We did some research and development on some new upcoming plugs and I think you all will be impressed with the future products. With only a day left before the end of the extremely short grouper season, we had to catch a couple last minute gags. We trolled the 20ft depth range and we actually had a bit of a tough day. Slick seas, (surprisingly) dirty water and no wind made it difficult to get a bite going, but we did find a couple good ones. A great time, good stories and I look forward to using some of the new 2012 products. Here's George with a couple of today's grouper... Capt. Dan
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With only a couple days left to go before the end of our 2011 grouper season, I was anxious to try a few of my other grouper locations. Sam, Mark and Jordan joined me today for a full day of running down some Crystal River gags. We left from Pete's Pier Marina, ran out to the intake canal area and put out the plugs. Trolling Rapala x-rap 20's in the bunker and fire tiger colors, the guys brought in some hefty gag grouper. We had a couple over 10lbs and Mark brought in one just under 20lbs to have have the big fish of the day honors. We had a couple on that were even larger, but we just couldn't turn them in time. It was about a beautiful day as it gets and great job guys on the big catch... Capt. Dan
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There's so much to talk about today's fantastic Crystal River charter from the great grouper bites, to the unbelievable trout and mackerel action. Merrill was my solo man charter today and he had a day of a lifetime. Leaving from Pete's Pier marina we ran offshore, trolled up a pair of 24" gags, released several others and made our way inshore for some trout action. I made a quick stop in the 8ft depth range and the bite was "ON". Mackerel after mackerel and numerous keeper sized trout kept us busy for several hours. The big surprise was when a large school off big breeder bull red fish came by the boat and we hooked into some big ones. We had a couple break our lines, but the one we landed was around the 40" mark and what a beautiful fish it was. A run to the creeks finished out the day and a couple more red fish sealed the deal. Thank you for such a great time and I hope you enjoy all your fish... Capt. Dan
I had a great friend and very respected angler on board today; Capt. Tommy Thompson from Florida Sportsman and the Florida Outdoor Writers Association joined me today for a Crystal River grouper trip. Tommy is featuring Crystal River in a future story and wanted to target some gag grouper. We trolled up some beautiful grouper in depths ranging from 12ft to 25ft and introduced me to a new trolling lure. The Mirrolure deep diving plugs impressed me very much and the grouper found them irresistable. It was a very fun day and I thank you very much. Here's our catch and tonight's grouper dinner... Capt. Dan