Category Archives: Fishing Trips

East Florida, Sea Shells, Summer Fishing

Getting Out and Having Fun: Social Media From Friends

I’ve decided to start adding social media content from people in the community.  It’s easy enough to to snag images from the web that people are already posting. It’s also a fun way for you to keep up with some of the cool content people are posting in a summarized way. I might also add my comments here about the stuff people are posting.

First I’m going to start with Captain Brandon Fraley’s post about scalloping.  This is actually really cool to hear that Pasco county is now allowing people to scallop. I’ve heard that even as far south as Pinellas in the anclote area we have scallops, although scalloping is not allowed here.  Pasco county borders Pinellas and it’s just a hop, skip and a jump north of Honeymoon Island and Clearwater Beach, our local surf spot. Brandon wrote:

fisheye_sportfishingFirst time in a long time that #scallop season has been open in Pasco County, got our limit and had a great time with @huntergibson243 @marlin365 @got_one_sportfishing now time to get shuckin #gulfofmexico #scallopseason #florida #fisheyesportfishing #ltcustomrods

Captain Brandon Fraley Fisheye Sportfishing Scalloping trip

Landon Perrino posted a thoughtful picture of Tanner Jones wishing him the best with his injury. What I heard from Landon, something you’ll see in the comments, Tanner actually broke his collar bone while trying a board transfer. Injuries are no fun, especially as we gear up for the peak of the hurricane season and the start of winter.
Landon wrote:

landonperrino Wish @tannerj0nes the best of luck with his injury hope you make it to Cali
Tanner Jones collarbone injury

The skim sisters Maddy and Lilly were hanging out on the east coast at a legendary skim spot, Vilano Beach.  There was a pretty rad skim contest going down there.  They were hanging out with the legendary and most gnarly skimboarder who does the gnarliest spin tricks, and originated from the gulf, John Akerman. They were having a blast on the east coast. Skim Sisters & John Akerman wrote:

skim_sistersLilly got 2nd in girls 14 and under Maddy got 3rd in the womens division! So happy to see everyone again. Vilano is one of the best experiences… thank you again Steve @rdsskimco for everything. We love the competition and Vilano more than words can explain . #zapskimboards #represent #joogsquad

jaakermanRight place right time this morning. @codycoleman #surfing #florida #hurricanechris

Skim Sisters Maddy and Lilly in Vilano John Akerman by Cody Coleman Hurricane Chris

 

That’s all for now!

North Pinellas, Summer Fishing, Surf's Up Surf Report, Tourism

Surprise Swell June 2018, 11:30am & 3:30pm

Snook were stacked up on the beach today. With the clearer than usual water the fishies were happy campers, able to see and breathe. On many rides they were seen cruising around. It was a mid-ougoing tide and the fish were sitting stacked up on the small rockpiles situated in between the two jetties. They were corralled into the pockets of rock sitting on the sandy spots. Others were along the inside edge of the sand bar. Most of them were way undersize, somewhere between a foot and a foot and a half long 12-18 inches. It would have been a great day to catch a bunch of way undersize snook.