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“We just want something for a fishfry”

June 13, 2026 Crystal River 2 photos
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Trip Summary

Had a great day today “grocery shopping” for a fish fry. We stryws our day with low water so we went to the rocks to pick up some good fish to fry up then worked our way in with the tide and got on a school of redfish and was able to land her first keeper redfish , not the biggest but for a first a keeper is a keeper. We had a great day and accomplished the mission of “bringing home the groceries”’
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Steven Smith
Crystal-river, Florida, United States
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