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2009-03-22
9:35 AM
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Kings, Mangs, Sheepies, Porgies, Pompano & Trout - Fishing with Lynn and Margie Harned and friends Dave and Jeannie Jenkins on Monday, 3/16, we had a productive morning in 45 feet out of New Pass, using live shrimp. We caught six keeper mangrove snapper between 15 and 17 inches, a dozen whitebone por more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Bonita Beach |
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2009-03-14
1:57 PM
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Calm Seas-Hogfish, Sheepshead & Snapper - What a treat Monday, 3/9 was offshore! For the first time in a very long time, seas were dead-calm and the fishing was good at the same time. I fished in 46 feet out of New Pass with brothers Mike & Paul Conneally and their friends, Rodney & Kass Bro more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Bonita Beach |
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2009-03-07
1:58 PM
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March in Like a Lion; Plenty of Sheep - March definitely charged in like a lion on my first scheduled day of the month. Monday, 3/2, brought extremely rough conditions offshore with seas to fifteen feet. The tide in the backwaters was low, and it was cold and windy. I cancelled my fishing more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Bonita Beach |
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2009-02-28
2:23 PM
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Bonito, Grouper, Snapper, Sheepshead (Inshore & Off) - Monday, 2/23 brought yet another windy start to this week. I headed out of new Pass with Jim Sistek, his son, Jim Jr., grandson and friend, Frank, in what was predicted to be two-to-three foot seas. We were barely out of the pass before we were con more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Bonita Beach |
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2009-02-21
2:32 PM
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SW FL- Snapper, Sheepshead, Hogfish & Porgies (the new grouper) - With a small craft caution in effect Monday, I didn't venture too far from shore with Ron Baldwin and friends. Seas were three feet even close-in at the three-mile reef and winds were twenty knots. We caught five keeper mangrove snapper and five keep more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Bonita Beach |
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2009-02-14
5:22 PM
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SW FL-Bonita Beach: Red & Scamp Grouper, Hogfish, Snapper - The easterly wind on Monday, 2/9, laid the seas down nicely well offshore in 45 feet out of New Pass, where I fished with Ward Wester and his dad, Loren. We caught a keeper 23 inch red grouper (red grouper are still in season-see photo), a keeper hog more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Bonita Beach |
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2009-02-08
11:06 AM
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SW FL-Bonita Beach: Cryin' Over Gags; Settling for Sheeps, Trout - Monday, 2/2/09, I fished near-shore at the six-mile reefs off Bonita Beach with Larry Dahlstrom and friends. We debated a while over whether to go or not, with rain predicted to usher in our next cold front and with rough conditions to follow. But it more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Bonita Beach |
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2009-01-30
1:27 PM
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SW FL-Bonita Beach: Snapperfest - Monday, 1/26/09, I fished offshore in 45 feet with Barry Pfleuger and friends. We caught fifteen nice mangrove snapper in the 14 to 16 inch range, two keeper pompano and a keeper hogfish. We released gag and red grouper shorts, porgies, triggerfish a more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Bonita Beach |
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2009-01-24
11:41 AM
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Snapper, Sheepshead, Hogfish & Lots of Rough Weather - Monday, 1/12/09, I fished offshore in 43 feet with Ed & Margie Bock, who fish with me several times each winter. We departed in a dense morning fog, with visibility of about 200 feet (thank goodness for radar) and in very low tide conditions. We head more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Bonita Beach |
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2009-01-10
3:59 PM
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28 Inch Gag Best catch & Big Snapper - Monday, 1/5/09, I fished offshore in 43 feet, to the north of New Pass with Alene Haug, Scott Kempfort, Loren Heintze and John Reardon. The snapper bite was hot all morning and we caught twenty-two of those to 19 inches, none of them smaller than 14 more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Bonita Beach |
