New deck, paint outside and inside, and some yearly maintenance on trim tabs, helm. She is ready to catch em' up in style. Back in the water 2/5/2023.

Steph and Gina (with the big red) fished a 4 hr offshore with the MisStress out of St. Augustine FL last Monday (15MAR’21). We fished 9 miles out and caught weakfish, black sea bass, red snapper (season closed), a grouper (season closed) and went 1 for 4 on the big teds. It was Gina’s birthday so it was her turn. The ocean was “ Lake Atlantic” for us and on the ride in we saw a large fin come up and I swung the boat around to investigate, it was a Giant Sunfish (approx 4-500 pounds). This is only the 4th one of these I’ve seen in less than 200’ of water. FANTASTIC end to a very good day.

We decided to fish a little closer in due to forcasted increasing seas (was actually 2-3’ all day and was forcast 3-5’). Pulled up to an offsore spot only a few miles out and it was “Game On” from the first bait hitting the bottom. We fished light 10# spinners to match the tackle to the fish. Useing 1/4 and 3/8 once jigs in 30’ of water it was a blast catching 1-3+ pound weakies. We had a couple of short black sea bass as well and a couple bites we couldn’t turn too. Kept 53 and released in good shape over 100. Excellent fishing in anyones book.

Good mixed bag of fish this morning aboard the MisStress on the falling tide. Most reds caught on float rigs with jigs n live shrimp running a close second. We had redfish, speckled trout, weakfish, pompano, sheephead, bluefish, whitining and a shark.

Fished a 1/2 day in the river this morning. We went looking for some speckled trout and yellow mouth trout (aka weakfish) on the hi change. Well, we found some trout alright and they were mixed in with these pompano. I fished Cajun Thunder style float rigs with live shrimp for the trout and pompano and knocker rigs for the drum and redfish. I cleaned 7 trout and 14 pompano as well as releasing ?? short black drum, redfish (aka red drum) and trout. It was Jameson's first fishing trip on a boat and I tried to spoil him. The bite is on, Lets go catch some.

Heck of a 6 hr trip trolling live bait off St. Augustine, FL. Started off catching live bait (cast netting pogies) then went to the local artificial reefs and some natural bottom. Game on. Limited out on the kingfish and got one really good AJ on the spinning rod. Fun for all. See you on the pond. Capt Guy