Alligator Point Update

BayBob

I got down Friday in time for the extreme high tide and gale force winds, the good news is I''m down until memorial day. The road is passable, the marina is hoping to have all the repairs completed by the time schools out (it's open and they have beer, bait and fuel). 
I spent yesterday changing filters and scrubbing the boat and getting it in the water. I went off shore this morning and caught 15+ short grouper immediately on L-Y nothing trolling, I'm not sure a 24" grouper exist in these waters. I had a first for me, a large pod of porpoise hung around and when I tossed a short back a huge one nailed it right at the boat. The bite stopped cold and I was back in time for a late lunch. Had light wind at my back going out and on my return. I have purple martins at the house I put up, a swarm of humming birds and some interesting gaudy migrants at the feeders.My granddaughter will be here this weekend, I love my retirement.

Familyfisher

That sounds just about perfect but for the lack of keepers.

ferris1248

In the end, nature always restores itself.

Sounds like a great summer ahead.

micci_man

Can't ask for much more. Enjoy!

skyway ande

Beautiful report!
Enjoy...

brotherinlaw

Good deal

Nick Nikon

Do the Porpoises keep the Sharks honest, or is it the other way around?

BayBob

I don't know the answer, come to think of it, at the place I was fishing I've seen both but never at the same time. The largest tiger shark I ever saw hung around the boat for a while there and the bite stopped. I suspect the porpoise have some kind of defense strategy since they live in the same waters. I'll ask the shark expert at the marine lab open house tomorrow.