Charters and Riviera Boating Program 1st week of April

This past Saturday we had a full schedule.  Capt Rich and I started the morning off with a fishing charter.  The seas were not nearly as bad as were predicted, but they were still not extremely comfortable.  We started off with a short troll as we cleared the inlet, but sadly had no bites, so we headed to Capt Rich's secret bottom fishing spot.  We started off catching a ton of triggerfish and grunts on the first drift.  The second and final drift was the one were the fishing picked up.  On the second drift we once again started catching triggers, but after  a few minutes we caught a 23" triggerfish and soon after a nice mutton snapper on a flat line.  With about 20 minutes to go, one of the flatlines took off and we saw a nice dolphin sky out of the water.  While we were fighting the dolphin, a kingfish hit another flatline and we spent the next few minutes trying to keep the lines from crossing and the fish breaking off.  Both fish were land within 15 seconds of each other.


In the afternoon, I met the Riviera students at the park and we spent the next 3 hours searching for critters and fishing on the beach.  THe students were snorkeling around the beach and found a big starfish.  They spent a few minutes examining the critters and then placed it back in the water where they found it.


Yesterday, Capt Rich and I had another fishing charter, and this time we headed right for the area we fished on Saturday.  We caught more triggers than we could count, yellowtail snapper, and a 30lb kingfish (which I now wish I had a picture of).  All in all we have had an extremely busy, but exciting, for days.