Florida Fishing Academy Student Photography

Over the last few months we have had a few students who have expressed interest in photography.  Here are a few photographs the students took using an infrared filter.  Some of the students are getting really good at putting the camera on the correct settings and setting the camera for the perfect shot.  More photographs to come....

Saturday Fishing Class 1/22/11 and Thursday Fishing

This past Saturday was a very cold fishing class and the fishing was a little slow.  Even though the fishing was slow the students hung in there and kept fishing.  Their determination finally paid off as the eventually started catching barracudas and even a flounder.  We even had a few friendly manatees come right up to us to see what was going on.

I also wanted to let everyone know how proud I am of two of the students on Thursday.  We were fishing out on the outside pier next to an elderly gentleman who had been out there fishing trying to catch dinner for a few hours.  He was answering questions and talking to the students, when one of them  caught a larger mangrove snapper.  Instead of putting the fish in the bucket and keeping it, he walked the fish over to the gentleman and gave the fish to him for his dinner.  We could all see he had been out there a while and getting cold.  He was extremely appreciative and shortly after receiving the fish he packed up his equipment and went home to cook the fish.

Holiday Boat Parade Awards Lunch

Today Captain Rich and I were invited to a wonderful lunch by the City of Boynton Beach.  At the lunch Captain Rich was acknowledged for his 3rd place standing in last month's Boynton Beach/Delray Beach Holiday Boat Parade.  No too shabby for the Academy's first attempt in the parade!!

Captain's Report 12/29/10 and 1/5/11

Last week Captain JJ and I had 2 fishing charters.  During the morning charter we cleared Boynton Inlet a little after 8:00am and trolled straight out of the inlet and caught a dolphin-fish before zig-zagging north where we caught a bonita.  On the afternoon trip we trolled around between the inlet and the water tower in 75ft-135ft.  We were much more successful catching 8 kingfish and 1 nice wahoo.  Both trips we were trolling 3 lures on the surface with bonita strips and one deep lure with a bonita strip.

Yesterday Captain Rich and I went out in the morning to see what we could find.  We trolled out about 2.5 miles and catch 2 nice dolphin-fish before heading in south of the inlet and trolled around in 75ft-130ft.  Trolling around in shallow resulted in a nice sized kingfish and two more short hits.