For some reason, this summer has been a Bonita summer. We have been blessed to run into lots of Bonita. Some have been on the Pinellas County artificial reefs. And some have been in the Egmont shipping channel. And others have been somewhere in between. Between March and Christmas, we really try to pick enough Spanish mackerel for our client's dinner. Spanish are fun to catch, easy to clean and taste great any way you choose to fix them. But Spanish tend to be small (less than 20") and many customers want to catch "big fish". Well, we don't have a lot of big fish just hanging around. You can get amberjack, red or gag grouper, red snapper and such, but you have to go way offshore to do it. We tend to get clients who book for 4 hours and they don't really want to spend all that time getting to deep waters for big fish. So, we target the Bonita! They are good-sized, fight like a fish twice their size and there have been lots of them this year. They just aren't that good for eating, unless properly prepared.