A good day’s work- red snapper, mangrove snapper, yellowtail snapper, vermillion snapper, red grouper, scamp, gag grouper, triggerfish and more. Another successful day aboard the Getaway, based at the Merry Pier in St. Pete Beach, Florida. Yes, it was quite a haul:

Only problem is that these fish were caught over a year ago- 9/9/06, to be precise. Tim, a professional photographer who was on the trip, came by yesterday for some fishing, followed by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers game, and dropped the photos off.

So… how ’bout this weekend? Well, it was a wee bit slow. This slow:

There were still a few grouper hanging around. The bigger ones bit live pinfish just as the sun peeked over the horizon, highlighted by a 20 1/2″ (still ot quite legal). After a couple hours, it was little gag grouper- millions of ’em. They were everywhere, biting pinfish, sardines, shrimp- you name it.

We managed 3 keeper snapper, 1 18″ mack, and roughly one thousand smaller fish. Miss Pass-A-Grill, the local headboat, brought in a load of key west grunts around noon. They also had one big flounder, which seemed a little out of place among all of those grunts. I heard they nailed 6 keeper grouper the day before. As the water cools, the bigger grouper move near shore- I may have to take a little boat ride here soon…

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