Last Friday, I hit the water with some friends for the opening day of Atlantic Red Snapper season. During the 2 1/2 weekend season in July this year the government was kind enough to let us keep ONE "endangered / over-fished" Atlantic Red Snapper per person, no size limit, for purpose of gathering data from the carcasses back at the dock. After loading the boat up with gear, ice, frozen squid & sardines, and beer, we launched from Sunrise Marina at Port Canaveral as the sun was coming up. After a quick stop to catch some live bait, we headed out for our target fish, Red Snapper. We fished, caught fish, laughed, drank some beer, and had a great time! I brought the GoPro along to document our trip. Check out the HD video on YouTube-
... There was no shortage of Red Snapper. ;)
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Back at Sunrise Marina feeling sore, tired, and hungry, we cleaned our catch, and headed home.
Saturday night, I made lemon pepper baked red snapper with roasted green beans & red potatoes for the Wife & I for dinner.
If you have any good Red Snapper recipes, please send them my way. I have another big fillet in the freezer, as well as some scraps that I plan to use to make fish soup out of.
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I had a great day on the water fishing with some friends out of Port Canaveral. We caught lots of fish... Here are the pics -
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Sunrise @ Port Canaveral
Anyone want to pet the shark?
Lick it!
Mangrove Snapper
Red Snapper
Tagged & Released
Another Red Snapper
Fish On!
More Red Snapper
26" Red Snapper
Another Red Snapper tagged & released
We saw a US Navy submarine while fishing in about 125 ft of water. I never realized how much water those things can displace. About 10 minutes after the sub passed us at a distance, its huge wake caught up to us... It was a a sight to see, but I didn't get any pictures.
All those teeth, and no toothbrush to brush them with...
Trigger Fish
Look closely, there is a sea turtle in this pic
Back at Port Canaveral
They need to lift the red snapper ban. We would have easily limited out. Instead, we had to throw back some beautiful 24-26 inch fish, but not before tagging them in an attempt to collect some accurate data, and eventually lift the red snapper ban for recreational fishing. The problem isn't the recreational fishermen, its the commercial fishing that is ruining it for everyone!
It was a successful day on the water with lots of laughs, and some good friends. I can't wait to do it again!
