Fishbuster Charters' Captain Dave Hanson reported, "I headed offshore on Monday, 11/18, with Bruce Epstein, David Polsky, Kent Kurzer, and Howie Siegal, to fish about 20 miles west of New Pass, using squid and cut-bait. The guys had good action all morning, and released twenty-five red grouper shorts to 17 inches, along with a 4-inch scamp grouper, a 15-inch mutton snapper, five lane snapper shorts, a puffer-fish and a scorpion fish. They boxed four keeper lane snapper and four grunts to take home for dinner.


Mike Conneally, who fished offshore with me last week, fished a catch-and-release trip in the backwaters of southern Estero Bay with me on Friday morning, 11/22/19. He used live shrimp to catch five redfish to 17 inches, twenty sheepshead to 12 inches, a crevalle jack, and three mangrove snapper."


1.) Angler Mark Koster with a 24-inch redfish, one of a half-dozen he caught on shrimp and released (due to moratorium on harvesting reds) in Estero Bay on a recent inshore Fishbuster Charter.




2.) Angler Mark Koster with a 19-inch black drum, one of five he caught on shrimp in southern Estero Bay on a recent inshore Fishbuster Charter.