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Best trip ever ! - Jupiter, Florida
After spending the last 5 days in Boca Raton visiting various relatives in town for my wife's aunt's 100th birthday, I was anxious to spend a day on the water. I wound up as the 10th fare on a charter drift 7 hour fishing trip out of Jupiter, joining nine members of the Nettles Island Fishing Club on a trip we will all look back on as UNFORGETABLE. I now consider this my best trip ever for several reasons - Variety of fish, quantity (I easily caught 150+ fish today), several Personal Bests, and MANY species I had never caught before.
This is what I caught today: - Dolphin (my PB mahi-mahi went 30+ pounds, but it ws tiny compare to the one that followed it on several runs) - Mutton Snapper - Yellowtail - Blue Nose Porgy - Jolt-faced porgy (protected fish, caught 1 the size of a manhole cover and it kicked my butt) - Cobia !! (was 30" to fork of tail, 3" less than FLA regulation keeper) - Kingfish (some big 'uns) - Lizardfish - Porkfish (this amazing colorful fish is protected so that Diver's will continue see them on the reefs; they go for $800 in salt-water aquarium stores) - Blue runner - Margate ? grunt family - Bonita (False Albie up here, not the edible one) Fish that Others caught today - - Lane Snapper - Mangrove snapper - Vermillion snapper - Spanish mackeral - Chocolate chip porgy - Moray eel - Black tip shark - Sharp nose shark - grunts - Rainbow runner It was literally like fishing in an aquarium - you never knew what was gonna come up next.... I represented NJFishing well on this trip - as evidenced by the nine club members shaking their heads and repeating "Jersey's hooked up again". It was truly non-stop action for nearly 7 hours. The captain (who promised to send me some pix) admitted it was one of his best charters and the recent mullett run has turned everything on. The wife and I are having a fish fry tomorrow with our remianing relatives before flying back on Wed.. Those mutton snappers were a great PUOSU warmup, getting those stubborn beasts off the bottom. Too bad we won't be wearing shorts and tee-shirts on the Ocean Explorer . . . See 'ya soon. . . .
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