The day started off looking not promising due to a strong west wind, making the water pretty gnarly. Captain Garrett came up with a new game plan, and we immediately caught our limit of mangrove snapper. We then spent the rest of the trip hitting grass flats, catching sea trout, catfish, a lady fish, and watching the dolphins play around us while we fished. Captain Garrett put in full effort to get us on fish, and was very knowledgeable. Will definitely be going out with him again.

Our tour was to be 8-12, but at the suggestion of Captain Garrett we came two hours early and it paid off. It wasn’t nearly as hot and as he suggested they were biting earlier not later in the heat. We were looking for take home fish not fun fishing to release so we got snappers and trout. Throw back fish we had fun catching were the gag grouper who was out of season (we’ll be back for him later),  some ladyfish, and pinfish. Main thing: Captain Garrett was putting us on fish and we were reeling in and having a blast. When my wife hooked the gag grouper it went for the rocks and most people would have thought they had snagged something but Captain Garrett knew with patience we would have a chance of reeling in a nice fish. 10 minutes later she was taking a photo with Captain Garrett and proud as punch. We saw some dolphins and a manatee which was back and forth under our boat checking out the humans.