Hey Guys, its been a long time. Just wanted to say "hello". summer is kickin off nicely, fishing is good, getting my feet wet offshore. Waiting on a bigger boat now, pioneer is coming out with a new 22~ sportfish. we've made a few trips in the 197 so far, all i want to do now is see the blue water. had 3 pioneer 197's out about 55 miles, the sailfish was on a buddies 197.

Good to hear from you again Trout !!! Looks like you have been busy. The fishing appears to have been good too.

Have you given up on wearing Croc's yet ?

Ah! the crocs! I should have known.

i wore them a few weeks ago to do yardwork.
sperrys and rainbows these days are my foot fashion of choice.

nice looking fishies!

Yeah, that blue water will get you hooked (pun intended). What kind of fish? That one in the 2nd pic looks like a dorado. Are those others red snappers? I'm a noobie at ocean fishing but trying to learn.

Thanks for the pics.

Semper Fi 75

Now that's fishing.

Great hearing from ya! Nice pics. Post more when you can.

Man, nice fish!!! I wanna go out fishing with you; you seem to know the good places to actually catch fish!

Trout's "gone fishin" I guess.

Nice haul there, though.

Made a trip to Islamorada last week.

After a few returned emails I had no luck obtaining a charter, I was trying to get a good deal on smaller center console trip since the sportfisher trips are nuts due to gas prices and I didnt want to end up fishing with a bunch of strangers. We happen to cruise by a marina and my wife sees a boat and decides that its the one. It was pretty late but we decided to give it a shot and call the captain to see if he had any spots in the AM. My wife calls and get him on the first ring, he has room. He is also taking out his wife and a friend, one other couple, and now us. so we get to split 3 ways and save a ton of $. It gets even better, his wife and friend arent even fishing, and the girl in the other couple decided it was a bit too much and wasnt going to fish either, so we have the sportfisher rolling with only three anglers that are actually fishing. The others would come out every now and then to grab a fish or have a look. Plenty of room to fish, no crowding, etc, very nice. The capt was also a local tourney winner a few times over. It gets even cooler, the mate on the boat notices my wife's clemson hat and commented on it, turns out this guy is actually from the chs area. He grew up at IOP and actually had his own charter for awhile and now was living in the keys running a few boats and mating. we actually knew some of the same people. It was like fishing with an old friend. its was one of those 'small world' things. The fishing was great, we trolled a bit and did alot of sight fishing, ended the day with 23 keepers and probably released that many as well.

Heres a few shots, along with some randoms around town. Some neighbors of mine were also around so we were able to get out with them as well for some snorkle trips. Heading to some of the reefs to snorkle on our own was pretty awesome. I cant wait to go back.







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hotel patio


My neighbors 23 seacraft, shallows snorkle trip, snapper hang out under the mangroves, manatee also swim along them.


Ultimate place to just anchor up and relax.





a few more.

this is robbies marina, home of the famous hand fed tarpon

hard to capture on camera but there are some huge tarpon

Cool shots!

awesome pictures!

Here fishy fishy.

Thanks for the pics and story.

WOW!