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College reunion fishing trip!
June 24, 2015 Tampa 4 photos
One of the nice snook we landed.
An 8lb mackerel.
Another nice mackerel. +1

Trip Summary

Got a call from a customer who was meeting a few old college friends in Tampa for a bit of a reunion. They wanted to start they trip off with a fishing trip. They wanted to catch species they could eat and were fun to catch. We decided to start our trip targeting mackerel, they are a blast to catch and great to eat when fresh. We arrived at the spot and the first bait in the water was immediately eaten by a nice mackerel! I knew right then that it was going to be a great day. Over the next few hours we caught lots of mackerel, shark's, jack's and even a nice Cobia. With about an hour left in our trip we decided to make one move and target trout and snook. We arrive at the next stop and again immediately start catching, this time nice slot sized trout. We end up landing around 10 slot trout and even a couple mid 20's snook. We took a quick ride back to the dock and got the guy's on their way with some nice mackerel and trout fillets!
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Michael S. Murray
Tampa, Florida, United States
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2nd Place Slam Tournament
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Prefrontal extravaganza
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March 13, 2016
Had a great trip today, the fish absolutely chewed the bottom out of the boat! We started the day of on deep water rocks targeting mangrove snapper and grouper. We went 2 for 6 with the biggest being fish being a 22" grouper. We made a quick short move to some deep water grass flat and caught over 20 trout, the biggest brig over 25". After we got our fill on big trout we decided to target redfish, unfortunately the winds had really picked up and made for tough sight fishing conditions. We did manage one over slot redfish measuring 29". We also landed about 10 more trout the biggest being the 23" fish pictured. We made one more move to try and compete our "slam" we landed right on the snook and immediately began catching. We lost at least 6 snook over 30". We landed another 10 in the 25" range. We eventually called it a day and left the fish chewing for the fourth time in one day!