Sailor50

My son is heading off to the navy in a few weeks, so we took a 14 hr trip on the New Florida Girl out of Destin this past Sunday. Only had 20 people signed up, so had plenty of room fishing. Left the dock around 4:00, way too early for me





Drove for a few hours, somewhere south west of Navarre. Seas started 2', but were up to 4-6' by midmorning but settled down later.

We limited out on red snapper, had to start throwing backfish. Got a good variety- scamp, almaco jacks, mingos and red snapper. One guy got a huge amberjack.















First time on the New Florida Girl, really good trip, crew helpful, got plenty of fish. Used their equipment but you can bring your own.

BlackFlag

Nice mess. I was working on flat dangerous the hatteras in the slip adjacent to that boat and that guy brought in a ton of fish last time i was in destin.

southern tiara

Please pass along my thanks to your son for serving our great nation...You must be proud of him...and buy the way, nice catch!

specslayer

good thing you didn go out on that boats sister the american spirit. on that boat you run 2hrs out and fish for half hr then run 2hrs in on a 5hr trip....it sucked and all they put us on was lizardfish and rock fish...but looks like you guys had a GREAT haul.

rauber

nice catch!





what do you expect on a 5 hour trip. if you get one snapper per person thats good...we run 1 45 hours out on 4 hours to fish 30 minutes and get some snappers. thats the only chance you have out of destin. book a 8 hour and youll get your snapper limit (im talking about party boat trips), but 4 and even 6 hours are most of the times king mako trolling trips.



fergie

snookbastard

Thank you for posting that. I made a reservation for the New FL Girl a week ago and going in two weeks. Was the action sporatic or non stop? Alot of scamps and grouper??

Hellcat171

it didnt look like they did too bad. About 4 weeks ago I went out on the Swoop 1 out of Destin on their short trip and slaughtered the fish. Not to brag and no BS but me and seven of my buddies caught most of the vessels fish, a lot of families and kids --- all of which looked like they had a great time. We were pulling up nice mingos left and right and decent snappers 18-24". One of us snagged a good Warsaw, and a Trigger that was big enough to take up the bottom of a basket. My Buddies dad pulled up a Lane next to me and in a blur the deckhand snatched it out of the basket, hooked it on a 850ss and tossed it to a 4 foot barracuda, B brought her in and that was better then squid for bait. I'm going on the long trip in a few weeks I let y'all know.

401 Cay

Nice catch.. but it brings me to ask the question:

WHY do charter boats keep fish like Barracudas and Bonita? I see it all the time on the dowcks in destin, where a trip comes in, hangs the fish on the hooks for some pics, then cleans the snapper/grouper, and at the end of the day theres a trahcan full of carcasses but WHOLE bonites and cudas?! Are they kept at the customers request or does the crew keep em? I used to go to the docks to get shark bait and we saw it all the time. Any charter guys wanna shed some light?

rauber

honestly i keep bobos and cudas on bad days- the catch looks bigger and the people are happy about cudas just like sharks. i normally cut the bobos for cut bait and keep the cudas for shark bait...