4-17-06
Fishing Report
Fishbuster Charters' Captain Dave
Hanson reported, "This
week brought all the winds and high seas that we were lucky to have
missed for most of last month. In addition to the rough seas offshore,
there were dead low tides in Estero Bay. I cancelled all my trips
through Wednesday.
On Thursday, Dan Mackinnon and a friend wanted
to take their sons out fishing, so we gave it a try, with four youngsters
on board, at the reefs off Bonita Beach. It was still sloppy in the
gulf, but better than it had been so far this week. The boys had
fun catching and releasing small fish, mostly blue runners.
Fishing
Saturday morning with Pete Williams and friends, we had the other
extreme in terms of wind. After all the wind and seas this week,
Saturday was just the opposite--no wind, and no current. The bite
was pretty slow, but we got three keeper Spanish mackerel, all around
25 inches, fishing with live shrimp and finger mullet, in 36 feet
out of New Pass. We released small red grouper, triggerfish, mangrove
snapper and yellowtail snapper." |