Yankee Capts trip

snappersnatcher

Its late guys so tomorrow i'll write a report but until then here are some pictures.


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TavernierGuy

Tight work!

Hawkboat

Looks like I made a bad call not going.:huh

Nice job fellas.

Got TA Go

Nice catchin! :beer

drichard1986

Sick Cubera Bro. What he eat??

jakedge

another fine trip on the YC. That Cubera is a beast.

Yankee Capts

Everything except 2 totes was caught is a 24 period.

If we could have kept the red snapper we would have been full and out of ice in 12 hours. I saw more reds again in places and edges that never even held muttons before. It was a challege to stay away from them.

Thanks everyone we had a great time this weekend!

Greg

danmanswag

Yankee Capts is always on point...see you guys in Feb.

C-HAWK

Sick! 2 **** fish there bro

bite my bait

Nicr catch bobby,any bait of choice? What did the cubera eat?

gzautner

well done . cant wait to get down there !

EdB

Wow - what a nice snapper/grouper combo buddy! Very nice work....

Hoogan

Bobby (snappersnatcher)called me this morning... "Art, post those pictures they're petty funny"
Another Class Act from start to finish by the Yankee Capts.
First 24 hours the captains took advantage of the window to put the YC on some phenomenal catching, big Muttons, scamps, reds, blacks, some yelloweyes and on two drops more ARS were caught and released than one can imagine, not scarced by any means.
The second half of the trip was also commendable in that instead of staying put in super rough wheather Capt. Greg called the operation off.
To sum it up, every single angler went home with quality fish, the fishing was great, the service even better, Joe sure got the hang of it in the boat's galley. I have met a few great deckhands aboard the Yankee Capts, but Josh, Chad and Lindden are outstanding, Thank you guys!
I can't wait 'til my next one.

Deep Drop

Nice catch boys. When did the grouper season that closed on January 1st, "reopen"?? Hopefully I am missing something and can raise the troops and we can all go out and put a hurtin on dem dar grouper.

Roc N Rol

Grouper season is still open in the Gulf, it closes in Feb.

amigho

Roc N Rol wrote: »

Grouper season is still open in the Gulf, it closes in Feb.

I suppose it actually has something to do with the Monroe county regs? If you are in fact correct, why are all these west coast grouperfishermen tossing them all back?

jakedge

The west coast guys are throwing back gags. Blacks okay until Feb 1.

Roc N Rol

amigho wrote: »

I suppose it actually has something to do with the Monroe county regs? If you are in fact correct, why are all these west coast grouperfishermen tossing them all back?

It has nothing to do with Monroe county it has to do with the Gulf. Season is closed in Atlantic and Monroe County Jan. 1- April 30, Closed in Gulf Excluding Monroe County Fib.1 - March 31. Gag is closed now and Proposed 2012 season for the Gulf is July 1- Oct.31 All grouper are open now except Gag in Gulf. So go catch them up.

snappersnatcher

bite my bait wrote: »

Nicr catch bobby,any bait of choice? What did the cubera eat?

The grouper ate a gog and the steroid ''mangrove'' ate a piece half of a small mac. You should of gone great fishing trip .

snappersnatcher

Another fantastic trip on the yankee capts,plenty of peole had dinner:fishing. The first 12 hours was crazy,muttons every where.
Everyone caught muttons on this trip even the googs. The gogs was the bait of choice even frozen . O and live shrimp.
Before the front moved in the fish were on fire .Then the seas started to become rough so we had to make our move in to shallow water
Where plenty of red groupers were caught. If the seas didnt get bad we would of had to come in early any ways because of ice.
Which is a very good thing lol. The worse thing about the trip was the red snappers we had to have caught at least 150 , 7-10 lb.
I wanted to ***** at who ever came up with the band. Because its clearly that there enough of them to be able to keep a few
for dinner.We hit 3 spots were they where so thick people were catching them with lures.I hope they can do another count and see
they are wrong and open it again .I want to say thank you capt Greg & Matty and Crew for this great experiance

snappersnatcher

:fishing

C-HAWK

You should see how thick the ARS are in the gulf! Short seasons/no season, small limits and ARS everywhere.

bite my bait

Ill be out there next week for the grouper closure.anyone here going on that trip?

Yankee Capts

C-HAWK wrote: »

You should see how thick the ARS are in the gulf! Short seasons/no season, small limits and ARS everywhere.

Now we have them them right in front of Key West. You can easily make a day of it getting 10 PP and be back by lunch.

Greg

Montezljohnson

What's does ARS mean

Yankee Capts wrote: »

Now we have them them right in front of Key West. You can easily make a day of it getting 10 PP and be back by lunch.

Greg

fishnfool73

American Red Snapper

seanhev77

NE FL is loaded with ARS like you cant even imagine. We too are catching them in areas where we havent caught them in the past. Normally on "the ledge" as we call it up here where the bottom drops from 160-180ft down to 180-200ft we dont normally encounter too many Red Snapper. Recently we have been catching them out there during the end of Grouper season. Even in areas where we normally catch alot of Mangos and Muttons we have been catching Red Snapper. Its hard to fish out of St Augustine anymore trying to target Mangos and Muttons as the Red Snapper are so thick you cant get away from them at all. SAFMC hopefully will allow some type of season for them in 2013.

Yankee Capts

seanhev77 wrote: »

NE FL is loaded with ARS like you cant even imagine. We too are catching them in areas where we havent caught them in the past. Normally on "the ledge" as we call it up here where the bottom drops from 160-180ft down to 180-200ft we dont normally encounter too many Red Snapper. Recently we have been catching them out there during the end of Grouper season. Even in areas where we normally catch alot of Mangos and Muttons we have been catching Red Snapper. Its hard to fish out of St Augustine anymore trying to target Mangos and Muttons as the Red Snapper are so thick you cant get away from them at all. SAFMC hopefully will allow some type of season for them in 2013.

Lot of that going around.

Greg

Montezljohnson

Afternoon Cpt Greg I have a question. With so many fishing like snapper and grouper season closing what good fish is out there to fish for. I'm planning to go fishing with you 20 April is that a good time to go with you. This with be my first trip going out with you. The folks from Florida fish finder told me about you. Really looking to have a great time.
Hey fisherman how is fishing in April in the keys.

Yankee Capts wrote: »

Lot of that going around.

Greg

Greg

Yankee Capts

This what will be closed-

Red snapper in the GOM and the SA

Grouper will be closed in the SA. We will be able keep grouper in the GOM except gags. In April we usually spend all our time in the GOM.

Everything else is open. Pray for good weather, that is the key.

Greg

Hoogan

Montezljohnson wrote: »

With so many fishing like snapper and grouper season closing what good fish is out there to fish for. I'm planning to go fishing with you 20 April is that a good time to go with you. This with be my first trip going out with you.

Hello and welcome!
There are plenty of other fish that can be kept and targetted during April such as Mutton, mangrove and yellowtail snapper, also kingfish, amberjack, tuna, porgies, margate, black fin tuna, and many others, if the conditions lined up right, we'll come home with plenty for table fare.
If you have any other question do not hesitate to ask me, I'll be on the April 20th Yankee Capts 3 - Day Mutton Marathon trip!