Danny and Mary Walter fished 24 miles offshore with me on Tuesday morning, 2/12. They used squid to box sixteen large grunts, and released half a dozen red grouper shorts, before the winds and seas kicked up and we called it a day.
Wednesday, 2/13, brought persistent rains to the area, which lasted all day, and caused my planned fishing trip to cancel.
Friends, Daniel Prischmann, Sharon Johnson, and Lyle Crider fished the backwaters of south Estero Bay with me on Valentines’ day morning, 2/14. The group used live shrimp to catch eleven sheepshead, including seven keepers to 16 inches.
George and Diane Vanderlinden, jointed by their son and daughter-in-law, Drew and Amanda, fished near-shore at the reefs with me on Friday morning, 2/15. We used frozen shrimp and squid, and caught mostly small stuff for a while, including some grunts, lane snapper, and bait-fish. We were thinking it was going to be kind of a slow morning when, all of a sudden, something big grabbed George’s shrimp. That turned out to be a 40-inch cobia, the first one I have seen in a good while, and good for many nice cobia steaks.
George Sloan II, his son George III, grandson George IV, and family friend, Mark Sommerville, fished in southern Estero Bay with me on Saturday morning, 2/16. The guys used live shrimp to catch a dozen sheepshead, including seven keepers in the 13 to 16-inch range. They also caught a 24-inch Spanish mackerel, and released a 14-inch bluefish.
1.) Angler Kevin Kelly with a 17-inch red grouper short, caught on cut-bait and released 22 miles west of New Pass on a recent offshore Fishbuster Charter.
2.) Angler Coby Mueller with an 20-inch sea-trout, caught on shrimp in Estero Bay on a recent inshore Fishbuster Charter.
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