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• Grouper season closes February 1, opens April • EWS FLASH: Greater amberjack emergency closure Oct. 24 through Dec. 31, 2009! • Trout season closes November 1, opens January 1 • Snook season closes December 1, opens March 1 • July 24: Sandbar (brown) sharks became protected species in Federal waters • August 4: New size limit on amberjack in Federal waters: 30 inches fork length • August 4: New size limit on triggerfish in Federal waters: 14 inches fork length Captain Steves, offshore fishing forecast January 2010 "The recreational harvest of greater amberjack from federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico will reopen this Jan. 1. The National Marine Fisheries Service closed the recreational harvest of greater amberjack in Federal waters on Oct. 24 because an established annual recreational harvest quota for greater amberjack in the Gulf had been met. Recreational anglers may keep one greater amberjack of at least 30 inches fork length daily per person in Gulf waters off Florida, and the fish must be landed in a whole condition." ( FWC Web-site) With all that being said, lets go catch some Amberjack, they are piled up on all of our deep wrecks this time of year and they are hungry. All you have to do in order to pick a fight with one of these guys, is drag a plug across any one of your favorite wrecks right now and hold on tight. Live bait works even faster, they don't call em "reef donkeys" for their brain power. The Grouper are flat out on fire right now almost every ledge and reef is loaded with em. Drop down a live pin-fish when the water is clear, or a whole frozen squid when the water is dirty, and you will hook up with grouper this month. The artificial reef's are just full of big Mangrove Snapper, from now through late March these fish will be stacked up and hungry, try free lining a live shrimp or green back out behind the boat for some of the bigger fish. Sheepshead are starting to show up on shallow ledges just offshore of Cayo Costa, and they should be there, through March. Bottom fishing with a frozen shrimp is a very good way to take your limit of these guys. Just look up the rules before you go, as they like to change them on a whim. Bottom fishing in general does not get a whole lot better than it does in January, so pick a good day between cold fronts and let's go fishing. Tight Lines, Captain Steve Captain Steve can be reached for charter info at (941) 575-3528 |
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Fishing Recipes Paradise Signature Dish Ingredients:
Directions: Meet Captain Steve and your friends at the Gettaway Marina, load yourselves onto the Paradise and prepare to have the time of your life, enjoying a day of productive fishing with no worries. |
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Smoked Skunk Ingredients:
Directions: Spend a week planning your trip with friends. Meet at the dock early in the morning; load the boat with all your food, beverages and fishing gear. Head out to sea with hopes of landing the big one and no clue about how to do it. Float around on the ocean aimlessly for 6 hours without a nibble. Get drunk and ticked off, throw your host overboard and spend the next 6 hours searching for the inlet that will return you to the dock. Congratulations, you've been skunked, your temper is smoking and all the people at the dock are having a good laugh at your expense when you finally make it back. |
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Floaters Ingredients:
Directions: Float around in the ocean for 6 hours with your friends and no hope of landing the big one, leaving nothing for you to do, but swig on the bottle and chug your beer. Spend the next hours side by side with your friends, leaning over the gunnels hurling into the ocean. Create a cesspool of floaters that no fish will swim into, leaving behind a wake of chum not even the bottom feeders would crawl under. Save yourselves from the humiliation and book your next fishing trip with Captain Steve aboard the Paradise. |
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