Day three today at the Homosassa Fishing Club with the Spalding party and it was another great day on the water. I had Darren, Robbie and Ed on board and we had a slow start for the first part of the day. Lady fish, short trout and red fish was all we could luck into before our shore lunch, but we finished strong. After a great shore lunch, we headed back out to the flats and all the guides had a great catch of trout. My boat had a pleasant surprise of catching a keeper sized grouper in really shallow water to top off the afternoon. Thanks to the entire grouper for a great couple of days and look forward to your next visit... 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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Saturday, Nov 03 2012

Crystal River Trout and Gags...

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
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Friday, Nov 02 2012

Florida Sportsman Nov. 2012

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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Saturday, Oct 20 2012

Crystal River Bonus Snook...

The weatherman was right today with the 15mph NW winds and it definitely made today a little challenging. I had Mishel and Earl on board out of Pete's Pier Marina and we gave it our best to find a couple grouper. The water was quite dirty and the floating grass was an issue which made trolling difficult, but when we had a clean drag, we caught a couple keepers. The CD Rapala fire tiger 14's were the plugs of choice. For an extra bonus,  Mishel caught a beautiful snook while trolling for grouper to top off the day. A nice triple tail was added to the mix and a windy, but fun day out of Crystal River was had by all. I thank you both again and we'll see you soon... Capt. Dan
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My great regular clients and friends Mishel and Earl joined me today out of Homosassa for some grouper action. We left a little late today as we waited for an approaching cold from storm line to pass, but when the weather cleared; we were off to find some fish. With a little bit of the high tide left, we staked out on an outer key and caught a couple red fish to start the day. The water was running out fast, so our next plan was to troll up some grouper. The grouper cooperated nicely as we trolled a couple shallow areas and in a few hours, we had our limit of beautiful grouper. I always enjoy my trips with you both and I thank you for the great time... Capt. Dan
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Thursday, Oct 18 2012

Homosassa Grouper Delight....

We hit it as good as it gets today out of Homosassa and Bill, Karen and Len had a fantastic day. I met the crew just after 8am at Macrae's and made our way offshore Homosassa and the grouper bite was on. We trolled our plugs over a couple different strucutres and had our limit of hefty gags. The grouper bite was great and our next plan was adding some tasty grunts to our catch. We anchored up over some shallower rocks and caught a variety of grouper, grunts and mackerel to keep us busy. To top off the day, we made a quick drift inshore, picked up a couple keeepr trout and called it a day. i can't thank you all enough for such a great time and congragulations on your outstanding day.. Capt. Dan
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It was a tough one today and it definitely makes you appreciated the good days, especially when the fish just don't want to cooperate. Brad, Greg and Richard were on board today out of Pete's Pier Marina and these gentlemen worked hard. It was extremely tough conditions with the rough, choppy waters, but we made the best of it and lucked upon a nice keeper grouper to make the day. The inshore scene was slow as well, with mostly short trout and sea bass to show for our efforts. What a difference a day makes. I thank you all for the good time and we'll hope for better weather for our next charter. Here's Greg with his nice keeper grouper... Capt. Dan
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Monday, Oct 15 2012

Big Day Grouper...

We landed the big one of the year... so far...and Skip, Chuck and Robert did great trolling up some gags. We left from Pete's Pier Marina and we were welcomed to a extremely calm gulf. I made a long run offshore to some deeper structures and we found some "big" ones. The first one of the day topped out at 20lbs and the rest were all quality fish as well. The water was a bit dirty from the wind and we worked very had to get out limit, but persistence paid off. The pleasant surprise today was trolling up a beautiful keeper red grouper to add to our days total. I can't thank you guys enough for all your patience today and congratulations on a fine day of grouper fishing. Here's Chuck with the big one of the day, and for additional pictures; please scroll over to the Crystal River Fishing facebook page... Capt. Dan
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Choppy and rough conditions today off Crystal River and did I ever earn today's catch. Scott and Clay were on board for the day and the morning grouper bite started off great. The first couple passes trolling produced a few grouper, but they were all just under the 22" minimum. The rest of the morning got tough and the conditions were very challenging. I'll put it this way - we didn't have a fish in the cooler until 12:30pm. Finally the grouper turned on for a few minutes and the guys put three real nice 10lbers on ice. The fourth one just wasn't meant for us today, so we anchored up on a rock pile and added a few more groceries to the cooler. I thank you both for the hard efforts and you guys did great with the less than favorable conditions. Enjoy all the fish... Capt. Dan
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