Today the weather was beautiful all day! The perfect day to have an island hopper. A few friends from back home came to visit and booked a charter for Jaiden's birthday. I had a plan and changed my mind at the last minute, we spent half the day fishing new stuff in an area I had never been and found a few cool new spots. We ended up keeping enough porgies and grunts for dinner for the 4 of us and released a bunch of short groupers.

The morning was honestly way rougher than I was expecting. we made it half the distance I had wanted to go and decided we would fish for a little until it calmed down more and ended up making it just shy of 30 miles out by the end of the day. The ride back in was super nice. As for the fishing it was non stop action just about all day we had a few little pauses in the fish catching but overall it was a really good day. My plan was to go out close to 20fathoms to target keeper red grouper but at 15 miles it started to get rough so we made lemonade out of lemons and fished a bunch of new stuff that I had never been to. We let go double if not triple what we kept and ended up with 1 really nice red grouper 1 grasby grouper a few lanes and b liners and a ton of porgies and grunts.

It was definitely blowing a little more than yesterday and the waves picked up for our ride in but overall it wasn't a half bad day Fishing was a little slow for my liking my first stop was not very productive but the second stop we got into some fish! We kept enough grunts and porgies for dinner and let the rest go to see another day and also released another short hogfish and a couple of groupers

Boy was it calm out! It was perfect island hopper weather today. We had an afternoon 4 hour and there was nonstop action. we tossed back a lot more than we kept along with 3 short hog fish and a bunch of short red grouper.

Hello guys it feels like it's been forever and a day since I've done one of these so I guess I'll dive right into it! This morning started out really rough we have had some nasty winds for a little while so everything was still a bit turned up. The further we got offshore the rougher it got so we decided to camp out close for a little while until it calmed down enough for us to go a little bit deeper. Now as far as fishing is concerned... we tore up the fish for 8 hours inside of 20 miles. Luke fished non stop from the second we stopped till we finally ran out of shrimp 8and a half hours later with no beer or sandwich breaks. We ended up with more porgies and grunts than I had thought and a really nice lane snapper and then caught and released a few gags, reds, scamps and a borderline hogfish. This is the first of MANY fishing reports this year so stay tuned!

Yesterday we embarked on a fishing trip with Joseph who came all the way from England with one dream in mind: to catch a Goliath Grouper. And boy, did we ever catch them! In fact, we ended up catching and releasing three of these magnificent creatures. The first Goliath grouper we caught was the smallest one out of the three and it was small enough to bring on the boat to grab a couple pictures. The last one we caught was over 350 pounds! It was an incredible feeling to see him have land one of these beasts after years of dreaming about it. But that was just the beginning of our adventure. We decided to take things up a notch and got in the water with one of the Goliath groupers we caught. It was truly an unforgettable experience to swim alongside such a massive creature, feeling the sheer power and weight of it as it swam past us. But we didn't just catch Goliath groupers on this trip. We also managed to reel in some Bonita. And we even had a couple of close encounters with some sharks, which added an extra thrill to an already exhilarating fishing trip. All in all, it was an unforgettable experience that wont be forgotten about for a while. Catching those Goliath groupers was a dream come true, and getting in the water with one was the icing on the cake.