Venice FLA Fishing with Fish Galore

[Sharkyispy]

Made the annual trek south to Siesta Key FLA and arranged for my trip with Capt Joe Miller on Fish Galore. Was joined by Al from NJ who happened to be down in the area at same time. Started the day pulling up our bait fish near shore just outside of the Venice inlet, a few drops later and ran @ 40 miles off into 110 ft of beautiful blue water. Drop and reel fishing most of the day for Red Grouper, snappers and some pesky sharks. What we thought and hoped to be a nice Cobia at first turned out to be one 4 foot Dusky fought on light tackle for 40 mins which made for some good fighting to later be released. For the day we landed 50+ Grouper, Countless snapper, including one whopper Red Snapper that had to go back due to the regs. The Sharks were pesky and we lost several fish before they could get boated, being chomped off leaving carcasses. Great overall fishing with a captain who spares no expense to put you on fish and keeps them coming....."no rest for the weary" he says

[vinntastic]

Awesome!!!!

[dales529]

Nice work Mike! We are set for Mako Mania etc. Get home soon I need bucktails for the 23rd!

[Sharkyispy]

Originally Posted by dales529

Nice work Mike! We are set for Mako Mania etc. Get home soon I need bucktails for the 23rd!

Thanks Dave. RFA at work down here too. Just changed the limits on Red Grouper to 3 from 4. Red Snapper only open 10 days total. Charter guys are hurting big time from it all.....Be back on Saturday Dave, sitting here eating Grouper every which way I can cook it as well as Snapper fillets..LOL. Send me your order via email so I'll have it when I get back to start working on it.

[SplitShot]

Looks like a GREAT DAY OF FUN down there, Mike... enjoy it... be seeing you soon for fluking!!

[Sharkyispy]

Just notified I was pictured for Joe Miller's Fish Galore fishing report from this trip post doing the field testing which is in the Water life .com June 2014 edition, see page 23.

https://issuu.com/waterlife/docs/wat...ne_2014/23?e=0