Southbound
Catch of the Day

The Southbound  had a half-day trip today, but I can’t tell you what we caught, because I was not there. I decided to take a few days off at my hunting camp up in south-central Florida. Captain Craig Giovani who until very recently was the owner of the Grandslam is up...

2 Trips Today The first trip was a father and son from up in the cold north. The reef action was pretty good, Mostly Barracudas, but we put out the light spinning tackle to make it challenging and had some fun. The Second Trip was some familiar faces. Two friends and...

Still a little cool and just a touch breezy today. We had a cold front move through the area yesterday. It was supposed to drop off more than it did, but it was not too bumpy. The blue water is way inside the reef to the west. Coral heads and shoals that are normally...

2 Trips Today Morning trip a 6hr trip and Mother Nature was amazing. Weather and the water were beautiful. Clear, sunny and calm with well over 50 ft. visibility in the water. Every rock on the bottom was visible. This is not great for fishing even though it does make...

The Guys I had on the boat today have fished with me before. They are fishermen and hunters and understand you don’t always get what you want. We decided to go far west looking for live bait to try to catch some Sailfish. I told them it was a bit of a crap shoot...

I had the same people as yesterday fish with me again today. This was only a half day trip so I had to make it happer fast. We decided to anchor and try to catch some Yellow Tail Snapper. They are a delicious local snapper. Usually fairly easy to catch. They...

Tried a lot of things to day. We caught live ballyhoo today. There are finally some around, who knows if they will stay long. But once we got them , I  had to find something to eat them!. The Barracudas were veracious on the outer bar off Western Dry Rocks. No problem...

Todays goal was to spend part of the day looking for a Sailfish. Usually live bait is the best way to catch a Sailfish, so we spent the morning on the anchor trying to catch live Ballyhoo. There haven’t been many ballyhoo around this year. Fortuanetly, this past...

2 Trips Today. Basically Reef action on both trips. Lots of big barracudas around at the moment. Not sure if they are spawning this time of year or not, but they are very hungry and most are above average size. Lots of fun on light...

Short trip today. Fished offshore for a little while, but it wasn’t happening  so we worked around a couple wrecks and up on the reef looking for some bites. Got some big Barracudas, which are always fun, especially when you are not that big yourself Also...

Great Actiion on the Reef with big Barracuda. Those are some Serious...

Mixed Bag Today. Barracudas, Bonitos, Kingfish, Cero Mackerel and a big Cravalle Jack. We released everything except the Kingfish and Cero...