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• truculenity Posts: 43 Greenhorn

  April 2016 #2

  as i child, i always enjoyed fishing shrimp cut or whole around structure for snapper and sheepshead. usually consistent action to keep entertained, bridge pilings and rock piles would be a good start.

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• Barrell Posts: 1,305 Officer

  April 2016 #3

  A half day trip out with a local guide might be worth ten times more then you paid in the knowledge you will receive. At the same time you are trying to learn fishing even more important is to learn about boating and boat maintenance. Taking a basic boating course is a good move.

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• gandrfab Posts: 21,646 AG

  April 2016 #4

  Super secret spot, just off the end of the dock at the coast guard station is a wash out (deeper hole) that fish will hang out in.
  We try to fish it around slack tides.
  
  You have twins go hit the local hot spot artificial reefs and wrecks out of Ponce.

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• FishyGirl Posts: 715 Officer

  April 2016 #5

  Join the Halifax Sport Fishing Club in Port Orange. They are great group and have awesome speakers at thier meetings. If we were closer, we would be members, for sure.

  "America will never be destroyed from outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves"
  --Abraham Lincoln

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• buguy Posts: 107 Officer

  April 2016 #6

  Thanks guys. My father in law just bought a 26 ft Grady and my brother in law has a 21' Grady, so we, as a family, plan to take a coast guard approved boating course. I grew up on the Mississippi so boating and maintenance in general isn't new to me. Big difference between the river and the ocean though. Thats why we are staying inshore til I'm comfortable with my skills and equipment.
  The chartplotter stuff is new to me as well. Still learning that.
  I have been looking into hiring a guide. I think that's a smart idea to pick up a lot of knowledge in a short time. I do know of an old school captain that will take you out on your boat for next to nothing because he loves to go. Keep the good spots coming! We are excited to get some hooks wet!

  Grady White 230 Gulstream twin 150 Johnsons. Me and my daughter fishing buddy's! Hoping to learn together!

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• gandrfab Posts: 21,646 AG

  April 2016 #7

  Freddie Z Fishing for off shore. https://www.facebook.com/freddie.zona?fref=ts
  He has a sporty and a twin engine CC

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• gandrfab Posts: 21,646 AG

  April 2016 #8

  Pick your days, NOAA lies I called trips at the ramp and have called them at the inlet.
  When you see the clouds growing go in.
  Hard part is when the weather is turning bad the fish normally turn on.

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• buguy Posts: 107 Officer

  April 2016 #9

  Yeah no offshore on my boat yet. Id like another half dozen or more trips inshore to get more familiar with my boat. I will say I'm super excited about going offshore though. Never been out on the ocean before!

  Grady White 230 Gulstream twin 150 Johnsons. Me and my daughter fishing buddy's! Hoping to learn together!

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• buguy Posts: 107 Officer

  April 2016 #10

  FishyGirl wrote: »

  Join the Halifax Sport Fishing Club in Port Orange. They are great group and have awesome speakers at thier meetings. If we were closer, we would be members, for sure.

  
  We will check that out!

  Grady White 230 Gulstream twin 150 Johnsons. Me and my daughter fishing buddy's! Hoping to learn together!

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• buguy Posts: 107 Officer

  April 2016 #11

  King of the Inlet tournament was this weekend and apparently the Ponce ramp was closed for some work. We didn't get out til 10 and all the ramps/parking were pretty much full up. We headed home, dropped the Grady, and grabbed the little Jon boat. Ran down to 3 bridges near NSB. Ended up bringing home a few nice Mangrove Snapper and caught a zillion **** catfish. Those catfish are really starting to try my patience!

  Grady White 230 Gulstream twin 150 Johnsons. Me and my daughter fishing buddy's! Hoping to learn together!

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• Sizuper Posts: 293 Deckhand

  April 2016 #12

  Buguy,
  If you're fishing with kids, don't waste time sitting off the main ICW channel (shrimp's the wrong bait there anyway). I'd put in at Ponce Inlet (or Port Orange or New Smyrna and then take the quick motor over there), and scout the area for good spots. Boat docks near deep water (the ones just inside the inlet can be very good), creek mouths (of which there are an abundance), mangrove shorelines, oyster beds, drops off sand bars, etc. you will find no shortage of very fishy structure in the area. These spots would be good to hit with kids using shrimp, live mullet, mud minnows, fiddler crabs, or artificials (jigs, spoons and top-waters, especially). When you find the fish, the kids should be able to keep busy. If you don't find the fish, Ponce is a gorgeous area and there are always big manatees, sea turtles, sharks and other interesting sea life and bird life passing by to entertain them. Just mind the traffic - don't anchor near the main channel.
  
  I know I am not being specific with spots, but outside the rare honey hole, one spot is an good as another because the fish move day to day, week to week, tude to tide. Find the right structures for what you're targeting, and move around until you find the fish. If your kids like e fishing, maybe they'll love the thrill of the hunt for the right spot, too.

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• buguy Posts: 107 Officer

  April 2016 #13

  Thanks I appreciate that. That was exactly what we had planned to do last weekend, but I couldn't get a spot anywhere to get in the water. So we took our little 10' Jon to 3 bridges.
  The plan for this week is to go out at Port Orange and try to net some mullet and flip some oyster clusters over and get some crab. I hope to be able to keep them til Saturday morning. I will also get a couple dozen live shrimp and if I can't get mullet i will buy some mud minnows. We bought a gold and a silver spoon last weekend, but I'm not sure she's up for that much casting. She just learned to cast a spinning reel last Tuesday. I have a fish finder/chartplotter combo, but I really don't know how to use it.
  So we will run to the inlet Saturday morning and see what we can find. If you see a Grady with a little blond girl on it reeling up some good stuff, shoot us a wave!

  Grady White 230 Gulstream twin 150 Johnsons. Me and my daughter fishing buddy's! Hoping to learn together!

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• buguy Posts: 107 Officer

  May 2016 #14

  Well that didn't go as planned at all. I'm having big troubles getting my anchor to grab. I have a walk around and by the time I get up there, untied, and lowered, I'm 40 feet from where I wanted to be as well. I also had trouble navigating the water in the inlet. Ran shallow several times trying to get around it. We ended up fishing the coast guard station cove and she caught a couple jacks. But there we're 6 dolphins playing at the dock so that was good. We also tried just south of the inlet where that waterway connects to the other side, but just got catfish there. We tried another spot up north of the inlet near the beach and docks, but just more cst fish and I think it was a whiting. I need a windlass. Just can't seem to do it by myself.

  Grady White 230 Gulstream twin 150 Johnsons. Me and my daughter fishing buddy's! Hoping to learn together!

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