07-31-2013, 02:15 PM
First, I LOVE the Atlantic when it's rough after being in the Gulf. The wave frequency is a much longer waveform than the Gulf Of Mexico which has a much shorter wavelength/waves closer together. Try taking a boat built for the Atlantic in the same height waves in the Gulf and you'll be beat to death and wet in the Gulf where you ride much smoother and dryer in the Atlantic. I've been out in the Gulf in 18'-24' seas in a 100' ocean going tug in 90mph winds and I don't intend on ever doing it again!
Ricky, it sounds as though they must have put you on a small wreck near shore. How big was the Grouper? I hope over about 40lbs. so it was fun! Too bad about the Snapper. GOOD EAT'N FISH!
When I was about 18, I "accidentally" hooked a 150' Black Grouper one time off the stern of a tugboat while we waiting for high tide at the Sea Buoy off St. Marks, FL in 15' of water on fairly light tackle and it just about killed us before we got that damn thing aboard. The fight took so long, we almost missed the tide going into the St. Marks River with our barge! LOL! (working for my family, I would have been in some kind of trouble if we had to wait 12 hours until the next high tide because I wanted to land that fish...LOL!)
Tugboat"I used to take at least two fishing poles/rigs with me everywhere I went on a boat when I was younger"Cap!
Ricky, it sounds as though they must have put you on a small wreck near shore. How big was the Grouper? I hope over about 40lbs. so it was fun! Too bad about the Snapper. GOOD EAT'N FISH!
When I was about 18, I "accidentally" hooked a 150' Black Grouper one time off the stern of a tugboat while we waiting for high tide at the Sea Buoy off St. Marks, FL in 15' of water on fairly light tackle and it just about killed us before we got that damn thing aboard. The fight took so long, we almost missed the tide going into the St. Marks River with our barge! LOL! (working for my family, I would have been in some kind of trouble if we had to wait 12 hours until the next high tide because I wanted to land that fish...LOL!)
Tugboat"I used to take at least two fishing poles/rigs with me everywhere I went on a boat when I was younger"Cap!
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