Mr. Smoky...

This last weekend, "Adam the King Killer" and I headed offshore to try to get some cobia, which were rumored to be on and around Hatzel shoal.  I tentatively planed to head straight east and troll north along the 70 ft bar until the sun came up and we could start sight fishing.  But, as it’s been the last 4 or 5 times we’ve been out, the seas were too uncomfortable to run straight east so we headed out to 8A again.  We trolled for an hour or so and had three or four hits but nothing was hooking up.  Until the last hit we got on the smallest rod we had, which produced the biggest king we’ve caught to date.  This 22 pounder was a nice surprise on what would have been a slow morning.  Other than that, the sun never came out so we didn’t travel any further north thus wasting more gas and time and made it a little shorter day. 

The Great "Unknown" World Wide Web...

Well...I'm not sure what it means but I've just bought the rights to my new website address(es).  So, if you're a regular reader and you thought you were going to one up me and get the web site http://www.islandcracker.com/, .NET or .ORG, you're S.O.L.  I will be developing the .COM site as soon as Blythe gets me some books from the library, because I have no idea where to go from here. Have no fear, Blog'O'Naters (get it "naters...") I will primaraly update the blog but just use the web address as a vehicle to get you to the blog'O'rama.

Anyways, that's the latest on my end.  I'm planning on fishing Hatzel Shoal this Sunday, it's about 20 NMI NE of Port Canaveral and as of right now I have an empty boat. Let me know if you would like to come along.

Cheers,
Capt. Nate.

Duck Pond Bass

I wasn’t planning on doing much this weekend other than celebrate Ross’ 21st birthday over in Tampa. But as fate would have it, and as a duck’s drawn to a pond, once I got there I started talking with one of Ross’ good friends and he was telling me about all the bass in the lakes in and around the USF area.  So Monday morning I called and woke the mighty guide of the duck ponds-- resident “Capt. Jack The RA BlackBass”-- up after his late-night bender with Ross and company; he graciously picked me up at my hotel and took me to a small pond by his dorm. Just as a side-note, it was 0900 the morning after Ross’ “midnight- bringing- in- his- birthday party” and I’m not sure I should have been riding in a car with Jack just yet; maybe I should have let him sleep it off a little bit more.  Anyways, he’s a champ! 

I’ve always known that the ponds at UCF and USF had fish in them but I’ve never fished them due to the fright of being harassed by the ever present campus security.  Yet, there at USF they really didn’t care. I don’t know if it was because it was a holiday or they just really … don’t care, but the security was all over and no one ever shuddered at the idea that we were fishing their fountain flowing ponds.  We fished for about an hour or so, throwing nothing more than “June Bug” plastic worms and did really good for practically fishing in a puddle. We landed I think around 7-8 1-2 pound bass.  And, if nothing else, it was pretty neat fishing between a bunch of big buildings and catching fish.   Thanks, Jack.